Intolerance of Christianity and Traditional Morals Now Official Policy in San Francisco

LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/27/06 | Hilary White

[wagglebee]

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Battle Cry for a Generation is a Christian evangelization project started by a young Texas minister working against the  degeneration of modern popular culture and its effects on young people. The group says that a “stealthy enemy” has corrupted the youth of America with a highly sexualized media and corporate culture that contributes to underage sex, drug use and suicide.

“Corporations, media conglomerates and purveyors of popular culture have spent billions to seduce and enslave our youth,” the group’s website says.
 
Battle Cry has organized a series of rallies around the US that feature rock music bands with a Christian message and speeches intended to inspire teenagers to “retake” the culture. The Group’s next stop is Detroit, April 7-8.
 
The group’s rally in San Francisco sold out with 25,000 attendees. “We’re sick and tired of pop culture telling us it’s cool to sleep around, dress like tramps, get high on drugs and alcohol, and behave badly,” said 18-year-old Amanda Hughey from Orange County.
 
“Life is not MTV, and if we continue to live like we’re starring in those outrageous music videos, our generation is doomed,” Hughey said.
 
The group is especially concerned with the effect on teens of MTV, the music video television network that has been called thinly disguised soft-core pornography by Christian leaders. Battle Cry quotes a report by the Parents Television Council, 2004 that showed MTV exposes children and teens to an average of 9 sexual scenes per hour and more than 8 un-bleeped profanities per hour.
 
“It’s ‘virtue terrorism’ and teens have had enough!” said Battle Cry’s organizer, Ron Luce.
 
The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, citing the city’s tradition of “tolerance,” issued a statement condemning the rally as an “act of provocation” by the “anti-gay,” “anti-choice” organization. Despite the sold-out venue and the enthusiastic response of the young people, the Board accused the rally of attempting to “negatively influence the politics of America's most tolerant and progressive city.”
 
Tolerance, however, is reserved in San Francisco for those who agree with the sexual revolution and leftist political viewpoint. Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said Battle Cry’s “intolerance” of sexual promiscuity, pornography, the drug culture and homosexual deviance is “obnoxious” and “disgusting” and should, therefore, not be tolerated. “They should get out of San Francisco,” he said.
 
SF Gate, the online Christian news source, quotes an organizer with Not In Our Name, an Oakland-based extreme left anti-war group, saying, “There is a real intolerancy (sic) to homosexuality in a lot of these organizations.”
 
On Wednesday last week, the Board of Supervisors issued a similar declaration of official intolerance of Christian and traditional values. The Board said William Cardinal Levada’s instruction that Catholic Charities of San Francisco cease turning children over to homosexuals was “discriminatory and defamatory,” and “insulting.” They called Levada himself a “decidedly unqualified representative of his former home city.”

Earlier this year, when pro-life San Franciscans held a March for Life attended by thousands, the city again condemned the public expression of opposition to the abortion and euthanasia movement. A pro-life participant in the San Francisco march created a lengthy online photo essay which summarizes the counter-protester’s understanding of freedom of speech: “But who the hell do they think they are, saying that s___ here?”
 
Read the website of Battle Cry for a Generation:
http://www.battlecry.com/
 
View the photo essay:
http://www.zombietime.com/walk_for_life/
 
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
San Francisco City Government Calls Catholics 'Hateful, Discriminatory, Insulting, Ignorant'
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06032203.html

[wagglebee]

Thank God these teenagers are standing up to the modern-day Sodom and Gomorah.

[wagglebee]

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[xcamel]

And when it all slides into the pacific?

[jla]

“We’re sick and tired of pop culture telling us it’s cool to sleep around, dress like tramps, get high on drugs and alcohol, and behave badly,” said 18-year-old Amanda Hughey from Orange County.

At just eighteen she's more wise, and more ladylike, than a lot of adult women.

[confederate_infidel]

The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, citing the city’s tradition of “tolerance,” issued a statement condemning the rally as an “act of provocation” by the “anti-gay,” “anti-choice” organization. Despite the sold-out venue and the enthusiastic response of the young people, the Board accused the rally of attempting to “negatively influence the politics of America's most tolerant and progressive city.”


Aha. And there the problem lies. We are not allowed to state OUR opinions because they are not YOUR opinions. We have to be tolerant,while you are so INtolerant.

[gidget7]

"The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, citing the city’s tradition of “tolerance,” issued a statement condemning the rally as an “act of provocation” by the “anti-gay,” “anti-choice” organization. Despite the sold-out venue and the enthusiastic response of the young people, the Board accused the rally of attempting to “negatively influence the politics of America's most tolerant and progressive city.”


Leno and his "board" are not only totally intolerant and dangerous, they are ignorant! This group did and said nothing, they just planned a concert, and based on how quickly they sold out, it was one the residents wanted. I almost got a stomach ache laughing at the "mayor"

[nmh]

“Life is not MTV, and if we continue to live like we’re starring in those outrageous music videos, our generation is doomed,” Hughey said.

Yes, society is doomed IF this doesn't stop.

There will always be a few that take the wrong route but what's going now is insane.

[tenn2005]

The future of our children and our nation is at a crossroads. If we do not act not to preserve our culture of life and morality it is going to be lost forever.

There is a web site dedicated to returning morality to America. It deserves everyone's support. Spend time on it and get your kids to also. Also let your friends know about it.

www.nationalmorality.com

[little jeremiah]

Great news for the people who organized and participated in this. On the other side, the vermin who want to eliminate free speech for anyone who doesn't swallow the leftist poison are amazingly transparent about their real nature.

They really want to eliminate freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of religion. They are truly evil. It's that mentality that created China's Cultural Revolution, in which countless (I don't know how many) people were executed, starved, tortured and enslaved in "re-education" camps.

[little jeremiah]

Here's a link to the site:

http://www.nationalmorality.com/

I just bookmarked it, everyone should check it out. Looks like a great resource, especially for homeschoolers.

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Thanks for the link.

God bless.

Fight the good fight!

[metmom]

...America's most tolerant and progressive city.”

It never ceases to amaze me what the left considers *tolerant* or *progressive*. If that's progress..... count me out.

[pravknight]

SF Gate, the online Christian news source, quotes an organizer with Not In Our Name, an Oakland-based extreme left anti-war group, saying, “There is a real intolerancy (sic) to homosexuality in a lot of these organizations.”

Funny, NION is an auxiliary of the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party. San Francisco is the Communist capital of America.

Maybe the SF Supervisors should erect giant statues of Marx, Lenin, Che, etc.

[Rca2000]

It ALWAYS seems to be "one step forward(for morality and decency in this country) and three steps back."

Am I the only one who feels this way??

[siunevada]

Here's one of two threads of the SFGate article posted on the News Forum. SFGate is the SF Chronicle, not an 'on line Christian news source':

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603629/posts

[Aquinasfan]

Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said...“They should get out of San Francisco”

Before the fire and brimstone starts raining down on them.

[dufekin]

Then we will rescue them so that they may react with discrimination, disgust, and defamation at our benevolence, as is their tradition (cf 1906 earthquake and fire, after which San Francisco reacted with such disgust at the benevolent Japanese and Japanese-Americans who contributed significantly to the recovery as to compel President Theodore Roosevelt effectively to ban further Japanese immigration) .