Posted on 05/27/2025 6:30:16 PM PDT by Morgana
A pastor is demanding an apology from Seattle Democrat Mayor Bruce Harrell after Harrell blamed a Christian rally for a LGTBQ+ counter-protest that turned violent.
Pro-life organization Mayday USA held a rally at Cal Anderson Park — the site of CHOP and many BLM protests — for its “DontMessWithOurKids” national tour, which hundreds attended to support biological reality, family, and religious freedom. Hundreds of Pro-LGBTQ+ counter-protesters crashed the rally and violence ensued. Twenty-three protesters were arrested, according to police.
Several police officers were assaulted while trying to make arrests and control the chaos, and one officer was injured and taken to the hospital, where they were treated and released, according to the Seattle Police Department. An event-listing shows the counter protest, called “Keep Your Bible Off Our Bodies,” was endorsed by the Freedom Socialist Party, Puget Sound Mobilization for Reproductive Justice and Radical Women.
After the rally, Harrell released a statement supporting LGBTQ+ protesters and calling the Christian event a “far-right rally” that aimed to ““provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent [LGBT] neighborhood.”
“I am grateful for those who make their voices heard in support of our neighbors without resorting to violence,” Harrell said. “In the face of an extreme right-wing national effort to attack our [LGBT] communities, Seattle will continue to stand unwavering in our embrace of diversity, love for our neighbors, and commitment to justice and fairness.”
Harrell also blamed violence on anarchists who allegedly “infiltrated the counter-protestors group,” and ordered park officials to review whether there were “legal location alternatives or other adjustments that could have been pursued” when permitting the event.
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Blaming the victim is standard procedure for libs.
I would have a lot more sympathy for these folks if I thought they didn’t pick the spot where they knew there would be a hostile and violent reaction.
They didn’t expect any converts.
I want an apology from every person who demands apologies from leftists. Waste of breath.
That Seattle Mayor, Harrell called the Christian event a “far-right rally” that aimed to “provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent [LGBT] neighborhood.” makes one ask why he picked Cal Anderson Park? I think it’s obvious why he forced them to hold their ‘Mayday USA’ rally at Cal Anderson Park.
I respect them for bringing the fight to the enemy instead of holding meetings only in safe echo chambers
the world doesn’t just belong to the unsaved -
“I would have a lot more sympathy for these folks if I thought they didn’t pick the spot where they knew there would be a hostile and violent reaction.”
Yea, you’re right. Jesus should probably have stayed out of that temple, too.
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They wanted to have the rally at a park down by Pike Place Market but Harrell denied them that and sent them to Cal Anderson to provoke a riot
They were in a city park. The freaks did not have to come that day, I guess they’ve never heard of a “boycott”?
With that said I’m glad they came, they have nerves of steel. Back in the day churches had picnics/public events in parks, it’s long past time they did again.
Why should the freaks be the only ones who do? Just because they have a temper tantrum like a 2 year old because someone else does not agree with them? Tough. If they don’t like it they may leave. GO BACK TO THEIR CLOSET.
The Christians did not pick the site, Seattle Mayor Harrell did.
Democrats never apologize.
Yea I read about that but ANTIFA and the other freaks didn’t have to show up.
Asking the Seattle mayor for an apology is akin to asking Pelousy to share her ice cream stash.
Not gonna happen!
I don't think they are or were looking for sympathy. They were looking to demonstrate that the left is violent when conservatives exercise free speech, and they succeeded. They also proved that the mayor of Seattle doesn't believe in freedom of political speech if it conflicts with what he sees as "our city's values".
I don't feel sympathy for them. I feel admiration.
Romans 12:15 (King James Version)
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
For a couple of months I have been letting people know about the May Day protest up in Seattle on my newsletter and it sounds like it was a powerful victory. The Antifa Thugs once again showed how tolerant they are to everyone who agrees with them and pure tyrants of anyone they disagree. This was like the last time they were protesting the Jesus March in search of a cause and another virtue signal of moral superiority.
Just like the chasing of Jews from Universities they believe they have the right to chase Christians from the public square and found they did not and were held back by the power of Jesus. The crowd was singing powerful praises to the Lord almighty and the Creator of all things while Antifa and the Rainbow Mafia were shouting hate and shrieking their hatred to God. What a depressing existence it had to be to have nothing but hate and anger to fill your life with while people mere feet away were happily praising the Lord.
This all started a few months ago as a Christian group decided to have a few rallies around the country with one being in Seattle and the Collective Church in Tigard which Janet Bailey belongs and they brought around thirty people up there. This was organized by a Christian Group called Mayday USA to make cities aware of the homosexual agenda against school children which Antifa and the other Communist militants did not like and came to cause trouble.
They of course were dressed in their full armor gear from head to toe with the usual twenty percent being pretty physically strong and the other eighty being warm bodies and women. The police kept the groups separate but there was a time when the police walked away and by the time they got back the thugs had started breaching the fencing and had taken Janet’s sign and destroyed it. That is when the arrests started and the police took some of the agitators to jail, which of course like Portland were likely released immediately.
This sounds like a setup by the Mayor since the Mayday group wanted to have it at another section of town away from the homosexual community but the city moved them to that neighborhood. This was going to cause problems since they know the Rainbow Mob and Antifa were salivating for this confrontation so they could fly their victim card during the Trump backdrop. They are the ultimate religious fanatics worshiping the gay cult to show the world what good people they are by being outraged by Christians.
The mayor even made a statement which said Seattle does not stand for the values these Christians stand for. He actually said they are anti-Christian and anti-Bible since of course the tired cliché of Christians are bigots. No, the real bigot is the Mayor who believes Christians do not have a right to believe anything other than his Satanic Pagan religion which worships man rather than God. It believes there is no God so he spends his time mocking God and anyone who believes in Him, for all the world to see.
To imagine a place in America where you are not allowed to freely believe whatever religion you want to believe outside of Haavaad, Columbia, and UCLA? This was a total success as freethinking Americans once again were able to see pure evil showing its ugly face without a mask of civility. They saw a bunch of brainwashed cultists worshiping homosexuality and every sin imaginable attacking Christians praying and worshiping God without fear or intimidation. They saw one side being taken away for assaulting cops and trying to assault grandmas and peace lovers right after the country watched two helpless Jews get shot by the same people.
There could not be a starker contrast than these two groups as one was happy and healthy while the other was angry and depressed trying to earn themselves to being good people.
One was forgiven by Christ and the other was filled with hate and anger in an endless hamster wheel trying to be a good person when it leads to emptiness and depression. While one group was singing and praising Jesus the other was cursing and threatening. Could you axe for a better symbol of the two religions. Seattle was the center of the spiritual war America is fighting and Jesus has won.
Pray for the Salvation of those protestors
Gay Groups are claiming that the Christian Rally was deliberately provocative and deliberately incited gay protesters.
I have not visited that neighborhood in at least a decade, so I have no personal insight on this issue.
I do know that you see gay people every where in Seattle, so I do not know where a Christian Rally could be held without insulting or challenging some kind of special interest group.
If provocation is an excuse and I can provoke YOU then YOU can provoke ME. Simple.
So the deviants claimed rights “like everyone else “ and now no one who happens to disagree with them has any rights. Time to put these animals back in the closet, they’re monsters.
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