Happy Independence Day!!
Please Help keep FR Independent!!
Posted on 07/04/2013 11:19:30 AM PDT by Nextrush
On a blistering July 4 morning, nearly 1,500 people jammed Rehoboth Beach for a Freedom Rally celebration featuring music, veterans and prayer.
A portion of the beach at Rehoboth Avenue had been sectioned off, but the crowd quickly overwhelmed the area as people lined the dune-crossing and the Boardwalk in front of a small stage.
"We were just hoping for a peaceful service," said event organizer Christian Hudson. But the event far exceeded his expectations.
Hudson organized the rally after the Rev. Robert Dekker, senior pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church, was denied a permit to hold eight Sunday services at the Bandstand.
"For a normal service, we'd have 25 or 30 people," Hudson said. "It's just great to see people come out and support your civil rights What is more personal than your right to worship and believe according to your own rights of conscience?".......
Rehoboth officials denied a permit request to hold services on the Bandstand, saying the decision was based on separation of church and state......
(Excerpt) Read more at capegazette.villagesoup.com ...
Absolutely.
Spent an afternoon walking around the boardwalk once and found the people a bit irrascible.
Yeah, I know that’s still Bethany but....
"For a normal service, we'd have 25 or 30 people," Hudson said. "It's just great to see people come out and support your civil rights What is more personal than your right to worship and believe according to your own rights of conscience?".......
Another Presbyterian Rebellion?
Yes! And NCPC is part of the Presbyterian Church in America (one of the conservative Presbyterian denominations).
“the Constitution gives him that right.”
No, it doesn’t. His Rights don’t come from a scrap of parchment.
If you see the Rights as given by God, then I get the point.
The Founders acknowledge a power greater than themselves in the Declaration of Independence.
“visibly straight and gay... what does that mean?”
Well... you may see me with my husband and we’re with our kids. You will see two lesbians or two men holding hands and walking the same boardwalk. What I meant to say was that gay people and straight people are in the same locations.
We recently visited the Eastern shore of Maryland to feast on crab cakes for a few days.
There was a T shirt, “I’m not from Maryland, I’m from the Eastern Shore”
There was also a “Don’t tread on Me” bumper sticker with the rattler replaced with a menacing blue crab
The traffic across Maryland to Rehoboth was fearsome
Does that bring back childhood memories! Yes... back in the 70’s and 80’s, I do remember Amish folks walking on the boardwalk or wading in the waves. Back in those day, “Spring Lake” was sort of silently designated as the straight/gay beach area. (the man made lake area/beach area at the very end of the boardwalk). However, any part of Rehoboth is now visibly straight and gay.
I think that lake is called Silver Lake, and there's a smaller lake just to the south of it called Lake Comegys.
Rehoboth started out in the 1870's as the site of an annual Methodist camp meeting. The "tent" was located about where the Rehoboth Avenue (DE 1A) drawbridge is now (Rehoboth's western gateway, with a traffic circle to greet you when you come off the bridge) from DE 1 by the shopping outlets. DE 1A follows Rehoboth Avenue to a point 2 blocks from the boardwalk, then turns right and follows 2nd St./Bayard Ave. into Dewey, splitting between those two lakes on the south side and reconnecting with DE 1 in downtown Dewey.
Yes, the gays gather at the southern few blocks of the boardwalk at a stretch called Poodle Beach.
BTW is Rev. Dekker related in any way to John Dekker, who pastored Cub Hill Presbyterian in Carney, MD (NE of Baltimore) a few years ago? I listened to John Dekker's radio show In Defense of Truth on WBMD 750 AM Baltimore a lot back in the day, depending on my status as the temp employee I was back then.
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I think the only decent restaurant left there is Grotto Pizza and that’s not even saying much. Everything else is poofter food.
I do remember Grotto Pizza and that was some 40 years ago.
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