From the Equality Forum website where this story was linked (not Vanity), if you have the stomach to go to it:
Posted on 04/11/2006 12:10:02 PM PDT by Antoninus
Wishing all of you a blessed and reverent Holy Week!
As is well known, the week leading up to Easter is the most sacred part of the calendar for Christians. While different denominations celebrate the holiday at different times, in 2006 many Christians, including Catholics, began Holy Week this past Sunday. It is supposed to be a time of repentance, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and meditating upon the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It is, perhaps, not surprising that the homosexual community has chosen this week to celebrate their perceived victory over Christians in Philadelphia by hanging the 'gay' flag along the major thoroughfares throughout center city--an advertisement for the so-called "Equality Forum." If want to see what it looks like, click the link above. Be warned, however, that this takes you to a very 'gay' website with a photo of '80s pop diva, Taylor Dayne on it.
The city, of course, is fully on board with enabling this activity as the 'gay' flag hanging is now an annual event. This is the first time, however, that I recall seeing this symbol of two mortal sins (sodomy and pride) displayed during Holy Week.
Ping.
Truly the city of brotherly love.
The voters should be ashamed.
What "victory" did they win over Christians?
They're still claiming Fr. Mychal Judge, hero of 9/11, was gay. If memory serves, that claim was based on one man's testimony alone, and no one else's.
The idea of being tolerant with these guys essentially means that you have to put up with their raunchy, insulting behaviour like we had to endure until the little nob-jockey got thrown out of the pub.
That sickens me. You know, the reason we have the separation of Church and State in this country is to keep the state from mandating how people are supposed to believe.
If you ask me, the way the Left seeks to legislate its standards of morality as the only acceptable ones makes the separation of Church and State as it has been known for 213 years a bit quaint. We really need a separation of ideology and state, such that the state cannot force anyone to believe in a certain way.
If/when Christians become a minority religion in this country, I doubt we will receive the same treatment the homosexuals currently receive in the hate crimes and sensitivity areas. Traditional Christians and Jews of all races will attain a social status scarcely better than blacks during Jim Crow.
Let's separate ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM, PAGANISM and STATE.
We are in a greater danger of getting a Soviet-style atheistic state than we are in danger of seeing Puritan Massachusetts rise again.
In every Taylor Dane video I saw on MTV, she was in her underwear and she was no kid then either.
I'm curious to hear what the archbishop (Rigali) may have to say.
How do you know they are gay flags? Do you have to bend over to look at them? Are they handy for clean up afterwards?
Hey, isn't flag burning still legal in Philly? Just wondering.....
I remember reading about that case, but I thought that the Christians did finally win in court.
You'd better believe they consider putting up their flags during Holy Week to be a victory. I notice that they do this on Easter Sunday in Long Beach, CA, as well so that all the families have to deal with those silly little rainbow triangles on their way to Church.
I can't handle it.
I'm sorry you have to see those flags. If I had to see them I'd feel like (insert illegal act).
People on the list should know this.
All the more reason to pray for them--that God may help them overcome their trials and tribulations.
City of Brotherly Love Ping!
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