{"id":3073,"date":"2008-11-11T23:20:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T04:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2008-11-14T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T18:41:06","slug":"homosexual-activists-disrupt-church-service-bash-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/homosexual-activists-disrupt-church-service-bash-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexual Activists Disrupt Church Service, Bash Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming to a church near you. Lessons in “tolerance” from homosexual activists who show us just how peaceful, loving, understanding, fair, and unbiased they really are.<\/em><\/p>\n

Catholic Online<\/a> | Deacon Keith Fournier | Nov. 12, 2008<\/p>\n

This past Sunday, during a Worship Service at the Church, a group of loud and intentionally disruptive homosexual activists stood outside of the sanctuary of Mount Hope dressed in strange pink attire. Using megaphones for amplification, they shouted epithets at those entering the service such as \u201cJesus is a homo\u201d. They also mockingly carried an upside down pink cross.
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Reports filed with the Eaton County Sheriff\u2019s office indicate that other demonstrators had staged a further action intended to disrupt the Sunday Worship at Mount Hope. Dressed in clothing which would not have indicated their intention, they entered into the sanctuary and were seated with the community. Then, in an orchestrated manner, they left their seats, pulled fire alarms, distributed anti-Christian literature and stormed the Pastor\u2019s pulpit waving a rainbow colored flag and shouting \u201cIt\u2019s Okay To Be Gay! Bash Back\u201d.<\/p>\n

The organization behind this action is called \u201cBash Back\u201d. They describe themselves as \u201ca radical trans\/queer\/anarcha-feminist group\u201d committed to \u201cfight for liberation while rejecting all forms of state power.\u201d In a news release, Bash Back referred to Mt. Hope Church as \u201ca deplorable anti-queer mega church.\u201d They further elaborated their disdain for the Christian community at Mt. Hope on their web site in these words: \u201cThe Mount Hope Church is a deplorable, anti-queer mega-church in Lansing, Michigan. The church works to institutionalize transphobia and homophobia through several repulsive projects including organized \u201cex-gay\u201d conferences and so-called \u201chell houses\u201d, which depict queers, trannies and womyn who seek abortions as the horrors. Mt. Hope is complicit in the repression of queers in Michigan and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization led by Bill Donohue, Ph.D., has called on the Attorney General of State of Michigan to institute an investigation. The catholic League issued the following release:<\/p>\n

GAY FASCISTS STORM CHURCH<\/strong>
\nOn Sunday, November 9, a band of about 30 gays stormed a church in Lansing, Michigan. Some were well dressed and were stationed inside Mount Hope Church; others were outside dressed in pink and black. The group of self-described homosexual anarchists, Bash Back!, claims the evangelical church is guilty of \u201ctransphobia and homophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters outside the church were beating on buckets, shouting \u201cJesus was a homo\u201d on a megaphone and carrying an upside-down pink cross. Fire alarms went off inside the church, protesters stormed the pulpit and a huge rainbow-colored flag was unfurled with the inscription, \u201cIT\u2019S OKAY TO BE GAY! BASH BACK!\u201d The church was vandalized, obscenities were shouted and worshippers were confronted. There were no arrests.<\/p>\n

Catholic League president Bill Donohue addressed this issue today:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real story here is the refusal of the mainstream media to cover what is surely one of the most disturbing events of 2008. If an organized group of gay bashers stormed a gay church, there is not a single sentient person in the United States who wouldn\u2019t know about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is urban fascism come to America\u2019s heartland. It must be quickly stopped before it gets out of control. We are contacting Mike Cox, the Attorney General of Michigan, calling for an investigation.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Coming to a church near you. Lessons in “tolerance” from homosexual activists who show us just how peaceful, loving, understanding, fair, and unbiased they really are. Catholic Online | Deacon Keith Fournier | Nov. 12, 2008 This past Sunday, during a Worship Service at the Church, a group of loud and intentionally disruptive homosexual activists … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,106,17],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-bashing","category-intolerance","category-persecution","tag-christian-bashing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}