Michigan Liberals/Gays Attack Evangelical Church

[festeringZit]

http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2008/11/10/13335/904 Michigan liberals attack Lansing congregation in the middle of Sunday worship



[FONT=arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif]By Nick, Section News
Posted on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 01:33:05 PM EST [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif] This is what we're up against.[/FONT] [FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]On Sunday morning, amidst worshiping congregants and following unifying prayers that our President-elect be granted wisdom as he prepares to lead our nation through difficult global, social and economic challenges, the Michigan left declared open war on peaceful church goers.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]They did it with banners, chants, blasphemy, by storming the pulpit, by vandalizing the church facility, by potentially defiling the building with lewd, public, sex acts and by intentionally forcing physical confrontations with worshipers.[/FONT]

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[/FONT]</center> [FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]This didn't take place in some dystopian, post modern work of fiction and it didn't take place in San Francisco or Berkley. This was the scene at a Bible believing church in Lansing, Michigan. [/FONT]
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[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif] I returned home myself yesterday, from church and an afternoon watching football with the family, to find an email in my inbox from a friend in the Capitol City. Isn't surprising to see her name in the inbox as she and I often compare notes on our Sunday services. [/FONT] [FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Truth be told, I've done my best over the last year to start a friendly little rivalry with her. My church is better than hers, I insist, and I have been known to tell her why. Hers is superior to mine, she reminds me, and lists the reasons. (I admit I'm maybe a tad hyper-competitive, but my church really is the best in the world.) Yesterday's email began with an understated proclamation; "So church today was exciting..."[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]On Sunday, November 9, 2008 Michigan liberals sat peacefully through announcements, worship and prayer for the sick, our nation and our President-elect before staging a coordinated, disgusting and repulsive attack on worshipers and the broader concept of the church itself at Lansing's Mount Hope Church.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The lefties were a part of a liberal organization known as Bash Back Lansing and their collection of radical blogs, including one of the state's most widely read "mainstream" progressive blogs (and none which will receive a link on this website) called on "queers and trannies" from across the state and the region to converge on Lansing for what they refer to as an "action." While many of the members claim to be anarchists (they drove on roads, ate non-garden grown foods, printed materials on products created by government protected free markets, wore clothing, talk incessantly about "organization," etc etc etc) their broader goal is stated plainly on one of their lefty blogs. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"I can tell you that we are targeting a well-known anti-queer, anti-choice radical right wing establishment."[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Mount Hope, for the record, is an evangelical, bible believing church whose members provide free 24 hour counseling, prayer lines, catastrophic care for families dealing with medical emergencies, support groups for men, women and children dealing with a wide variety of life's troubles, crisis intervention, marriage ministries, regular, organized volunteer work in and around the city, missions in dozens of countries across the globe, a construction ministry that has built over 100 churches, schools, orphanages and other projects all over the world and an in-depth prison ministry that reaches out, touches and helps the men and women the rest of society fears the most. They also teach respect for all human life and the Biblical sanctity of marriage as an institution between one man and one woman.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]This is what Michigan liberals label a "radical right wing establishment," and over 30 of them showed up in force yesterday. Wearing secret-service style ear pieces and microphones they received the "go" from their ringleader and off they went. [/FONT]
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Prayer had just finished when men and women stood up in pockets across the congregation, on the main floor and in the balcony. "Jesus was gay," they shouted among other profanities and blasphemies as they rushed the stage. Some forced their way through rows of women and kids to try to hang a profane banner from the balcony while others began tossing fliers into the air. Two women made their way to the pulpit and began to kiss.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Their other props? I'll let them tell you in their own words... from another of their liberal blogs:[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]"(A) video camera, a megaphone, noise makers, condoms, glitter by the bucket load, confetti, pink fabric...yeh."[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The video camera they put to good use as they attempted to provoke a violent reaction. The image of the pink-clad folks above is one of theirs, stating in a picture worth more than a thousand words the goals of the Michigan left. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The "open minded" and "tolerant" liberals ran down the aisles and across the pews, hoping against hope to catch a "right winger" on tape daring to push back (none did). And just in case their camera missed the target, they had a reporter in tow. According to a source inside the church yesterday there was a "journalist" from the Lansing City Pulse along for the ride, tipped off about the action and more interested in getting a story than in preventing the vandalism, the violence and anti-Christian hatred being spewed by the lefties. We'll see what he files and what his editors see fit to print.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Props were readily on display too, though some of the condoms may have been put to even more nefarious use.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]An hour after police and security had collected and removed who they thought were the last of the liberals, a volunteer security person discovered two more, hiding, together, in a public restroom. While their compatriots engaged in openly violent protest in front of everyone these two snuck away to potentially stage their own protest of sorts, and only by the grace of God did one of the hundreds of kids at the church not happen upon that particular restroom in those moments. Precisely how long they'd been there and precisely what they'd been up to we don't know.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The church's response? After things settled down, the blasphemy ended, the lewd props removed and the families safe from fear of additional men and women running into and past them the pastor took the stage and led the congregation in one more prayer... not for retribution, or divine justice or a celestial comeuppance (that's what I'd have prayed for) but instead that the troubled individuals who'd just defiled the Lord's house, so full of anger and hate, would know Jesus' love in their lives and God's peace that exceeds human understanding.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Yesterday morning defined the difference between a church of believers and Michigan liberals. It also illustrated in shocking, painful detail precisely what we're up against.[/FONT]

 

[eek.]

Are you an evangelical preacher Zit?

 

[festeringZit]

Are you an evangelical preacher Zit?

No, why?

 

[whalewager]

Fucking faggo ts

 

[festeringZit]

These sodomites need to be prosecuted and jailed for hate crimes.

 

[kingbill]

These sodomites need to be prosecuted and jailed for hate crimes.

So you are in favour of hate crime laws...at last we are making progress...

 

[festeringZit]

So you are in favour of hate crime laws...at last we are making progress...

Actually I'm not... but I think you can read my sarcasm between the
lines.

 

[3peet]

Sounds like a hoax. Who are the people in that picture anyway? Are they from the church?

 

[festeringZit]

Sounds like a hoax. Who are the people in that picture anyway? Are they from the church?

A hoax? It's all over the news. The pic is of the gay terrorists.


Gay anarchist 'action' hits church

Gay anarchist group infiltrates, protests outside Eaton County church

by Nathan Harris (Nathan Harris/City Pulse) The "outside team" focuses its attention on traffic passing by the Mt. Hope Church in Eaton County. [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] A gay anarchist group infiltrated the Mt. Hope Church in Eaton County Sunday morning, disrupting a service by pulling a fire alarm, dropping leaflets and yelling at parishioners, a pastor said.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The group, Bash Back, was simultaneously picketing outside the church, beating on buckets and using a megaphone to shout “Jesus was a homo” and other slogans as confused churchgoers continued to enter the building.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Members of Bash Back issued a press release Tuesday saying that it targeted Mt. Hope, a church that claims a flock of around 5,000, because it is "complicit in the repression of queers in Michigan and beyond."
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]According to the Myspace.com page of the Lansing chapter, the network initially sprung up with the intent of increasing homosexual visibility within the anarchist community.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The “action” began early Sunday morning at the Northstar Center on Lathrop Street in Lansing where a group of around 20 protesters gathered. Pink bandanas, signs, a rainbow-colored “Bash Back!” flag and a pink, wooden cross were distributed among about half the group — the “outside team.” The rest — “inside team” — were dressed in conservative clothes and carried Bibles and stacks of fliers, intending to blend in to the church‘s 11:30 a.m. “contemporary-laid back service.”
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]City Pulse was alerted to the Bash Back event through a press release and had no prior knowledge of where the “action” would take place or what it would entail.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]“We’re having an action today,” one of the organizers told this reporter at the Northstar Center. “You’re in for a treat.”
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Bash Back began picketing outside the church doors soon after the 11:30 service began. The group also handed out fliers, which were much calmer in tone and targeted more at the curious than the angry.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]“We specialize in confronting homophobia, transphobia and every and all other forms of oppression,” the fliers read. “We strive for the liberation of all people.”
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]After a few minutes of protesting in front of the church doors, the “outside team” was asked to move its protest to the street, about 100 yards from the building. The team, standing beneath a row of tall flags that flank the entrance to the fortress-like church, focused its energy on the passing cars.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]About 40 minutes into the service, the “inside team” ran from the building to their cars and drove away.
The Rev. John Elieff, “Helps Minister” at Mt. Hope Church, said Bash Back members disrupted the service by bursting into the sanctuary, throwing fliers, hanging a banner from the balcony and pulling fire alarms.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]“It was an unwelcome and violent demonstration,” he said.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]When Eaton County Sheriff’s deputies arrived, they questioned the remaining protestors in the church parking lot. Elieff and other church staff questioned the Bash Back members why Mt. Hope Church had been singled out.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]“I don’t know,” was an almost universal response.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Elieff acknowledged the group’s right to protest, but he said the church’s civil rights were infringed upon when the service was disrupted.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]No one was arrested at the church, and, Elieff said, as far as he knew, no arrests have been made.
“I would have preferred that they had all been taken in,” he said.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Elieff called Bash Back’s description of the church as a “well-known anti-queer, anti-choice radical right-wing establishment” a “gross misinterpretation.”
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]He said the leadership of Mt. Hope Church attempts to identify the church as neither anti-homosexual nor anti-choice, but that homosexuality is one of many sins the Bible condemns.
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]“Mt. Hope Church struggles to follow Christ’s example of loving the sinner and not the sin,” he said.
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[steaktartar]

lol FZ.....keep fighting whatever fight you're fighting........whatever it is

 

[barman]

So you are in favour of hate crime laws...at last we are making progress...

:lolBIG:

The past eight days have been joyous as we've all watched ZIT post contradicting points of view on at least a half dozen topics.

Makes for a busier, more active PoliticoPub, which at the end of the day is good for the RxForum traffic stats

Raise a glass to Supporting the Site!

 

[barman]

lol FZ.....keep fighting whatever fight you're fighting........whatever it is

heh...A blind man flailing away at imaginary boogeymen inside a dark room.

 

[JudgeWapner]

Was the story legit?

 

[cussin'it]

Since when did self-proclaimed Anarchists end up being tagged as liberals?

You do realize there are a lot of militant anarchist groups who have very right-leaning viewpoints?

But you don't hear me calling those assholes "conservatives".

Geez, baby with the bathwater again and again and again.

hno:

 

[roadreeler57]

Phukin Liberal Faggs