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It’s Not About Tolerance: Elderly Christian Woman Assaulted at Peaceful Protest

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 • 7:22 am


The latest installment in the "It's Not About Tolerance" series:


Comments:

You know, I was thinking. This pro homosex mob appears so unruly. It just looks disordered. Bad public image. Maybe they should all wear similar outfits? Perhaps some nice shiny boots and something in brown for a top?

[1] Posted by Matt Kennedy on 11-18-2009 at 07:22 AM • top

Is this frontman a former BBC presenter, by any chance?  ‘A lot of anger and hate on both sides’ ???  Perhaps the part where angry Christians were mobbing these guys and hitting them with their crosses was filmed earlier.

[2] Posted by English Jill on 11-18-2009 at 07:33 AM • top

Keep bringing it Greg. These are not justice issues it is mob merely mob rule that these people are projecting.
Intercessor

[3] Posted by Intercessor on 11-18-2009 at 09:10 AM • top

Lets keep bringing the stories of people losing their jobs for supporting Prop 8 in California and the ugly Stasi judicial probe on the motives of Prop 8 and its organizing committees.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Is this the America that Bruce Garner wants for my children and that my father fought in WWII for?
This country is in trouble folks and if we snooze we lose…and so do our children.
Intercessor

[4] Posted by Intercessor on 11-18-2009 at 09:16 AM • top

Is this REALLY doing their side any good?

[5] Posted by drjoan on 11-18-2009 at 09:50 AM • top

Greg, Greg, Greg… it’s not about their tolerance, it’s about your tolerance. How many ways do I have to remind all you intolerant orthodox Anglicans? This is a one way street. Tolerance is not bi (directional). It’s fixed at birth. But then again some have this crazy notion that Christian counseling can produce a change. (Ephesians 2:-21)

[6] Posted by Festivus on 11-18-2009 at 10:31 AM • top

In the background of this video, you will see a clergyman wearing a collar. Being in California, I have seen this video numerous times and I keep wondering, “Did he do anything to help this poor woman? Did he see what was going on?” He must have since he was right there, but I don’t see him helping in the video. For some reason, that really bothers me.

[7] Posted by Branford on 11-18-2009 at 10:37 AM • top

I really resent the announcer “there is a lot of anger on both sides”.  Totally untrue.

[8] Posted by B. Hunter on 11-18-2009 at 10:56 AM • top

We must be “angry” too, so that the violence here seems like it’s ours too.

[9] Posted by oscewicee on 11-18-2009 at 11:07 AM • top

I too thank you, Greg, for shedding the light of day on some of these Stalinist tactics on the left. Americans need to know of the danger, before it is too late - for uncompromising and unpleasant minorities DO gain power, more often than they should, over democratic institutions.

If this happens in America, here is one possible (and quite simple) scenario: A sudden push for universal (and automatic) voter registration, using federal data bases. That’s all. Complete lack of border control, identity-politics campaigning, and organized, well-funded (think ACORN) voter fraud will quickly do the rest.

As it says just below your banner “Be on your guard. Stand firm in the faith.”

[10] Posted by richard reed on 11-18-2009 at 11:44 AM • top

Will the Justice Department be investigating?

[11] Posted by palagious on 11-18-2009 at 12:04 PM • top

What the announcer said was “...there’s a lot of HATE going on, on BOTH sides…” Was he watching the SAME video that I was watching???

[12] Posted by bluenarrative on 11-18-2009 at 01:14 PM • top

Thanks and keep fighting the good fight Greg.  Its so heart warming to see the love, good will and gentleness being poured out by the sodomocentrists.  I’ve not seen such a lovefest since kristalnacht.Here endeth the sarcasm

[13] Posted by aterry on 11-18-2009 at 01:31 PM • top

It would be helpful, I think, if a very high-level leader, whose opinion was valued by the radical left, carefully pointed out that having a different opinion than me, or believing that I am wrong, is not the same as being hateful toward me or being racist toward people who believe as I do. The word for this is “tolerance” and it is at the core of of our civilization.

Somehow the myth has been promulgated that holding a differing opinion from a “historically-marginalized” group is “being hateful” or “being racist.”  Furthermore, the determination of which groups count as “historically-marginalized” is determined by media-blitz and whine-fests.

Muslims think I am going to hell because I don’t swear allegience to Mohammed; Richard Dawkins thinks I’m an idiot because I am not an atheist; Vegans have declared that my lifestyle is unhealthy because I eat meat.  Do these people hate me?  Are they being racist towards me? No, they are expressing an opinion that is different from mine.  Chill out, gay activists, and don’t require that everyone agrees with you.

[14] Posted by Michael D on 11-18-2009 at 03:12 PM • top

Michael D., #14, you have an interesting point:
  Gay activists seem to be the only group that cries out about hate crimes while other groups (such as those you’ve cited) for the most part simply express their differing opinions.
  And then it’s the gay activists who are the most physically abusive as they oppose my ideas!

[15] Posted by drjoan on 11-18-2009 at 03:35 PM • top

Don’t they usually have a “vote no” and a “vote yes” side seperated by police? If not - they need to. It seems that Christians are the only target you can go after in this country without being made to feel guilty.

[16] Posted by chris b on 11-18-2009 at 11:54 PM • top

You know, I was thinking. This pro homosex mob appears so unruly. It just looks disordered. Bad public image. Maybe they should all wear similar outfits? Perhaps some nice shiny boots and something in brown for a top?

It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that happened, Matt:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697.html

[17] Posted by Jeffersonian on 11-19-2009 at 10:55 PM • top

Next time someone proudly introduces themselves to your group as an “Activist” think about this mob. Do we really want to be governed by mob rule rather than by the democratic process?
I know that individualism is frowned on by certain people, but it seems to me that democracy is better served by individual Americans who refuse to follow “Activist” demonstrations and quietly go to the polls to vote.

[18] Posted by Betty See on 11-20-2009 at 08:08 PM • top

I saw people on one side of this debate trying to prevent people on the other side from being heard or seen on the media.  That’s interfering with freedom of speech, at a minimum.  Where the heck were the police?  Where the heck were the so called “lawmakers”?  This is becoming a “one way country”.  I don’t like it.

[19] Posted by Goughdonna on 11-21-2009 at 09:18 PM • top

Dr. Joan, #15: “Gay activists seem to be the only group that cries out about hate crimes while other groups (such as those you’ve cited) for the most part simply express their differing opinions. And then it’s the gay activists who are the most physically abusive as they oppose my ideas!”  Exactly.  It has been my experience that the majority of those who choose to act on their homosexual impulses and live a homosexual life are quite narciccistic and feel everything that happens is about them in some way, even some of my very close friends who become extremely agitated when I point this out (but who don’t refute the point).  Knowing that, your point should come as no surprise.  They, along with much of our society, cannot separate action/behavior from “person”.  Therefore, if you “hate” their behavior and actions, you “hate” them.  I had a friend delete me from his Facebook friends list because, when his state of Maine did not pass the “let gays marry” bill and he accused those voting against of hating him personally, I asked him to explain to me how people voting their convictions or beliefs amounted to personal hate.  He could not do so, unleashed an angry tirade at me (as did a lot of his other friends) and deleted me.  Because, of course, it’s all about him.  It’s quite sad, actually, that we have created a generation (maybe two) of people, both hetero- and homosexual, who have such an overblown sense of entitlement that they are unable to distinguish between such things as person and behavior AND they are willing to hand over any civil liberties they have on the unfounded, empty promise that government will take care of them and provide for their every need.  How can we expect these people to have any pride in their country when the don’t even have pride in themselves?  (getting off soapbox now)

[20] Posted by Florida Anglican [Support Israel] on 11-21-2009 at 10:20 PM • top

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