The Continued Onslaught Against Christianity

Posted by johnhouk on Jul 01, 2007
John R. Houk
© July 1, 2007

On June 30, 2007 homosexuals staged a ‘gay’ pride parade in St Petersburg, Florida (as did many other cities). If you are a Bible believing Christian these parades would be viewed as government validated Sodom and Gomorrah abominations sanctioned to walk down city streets.

The two people in this picture (the vulgarity of it all, I cannot verify the sex) are not clowns meant to entertain children. They are male or female perverts dressed in an overt display of Godless homosexuality. The ‘pride’ part has nothing to do with lions; rather it is a promotion of same sex carnal knowledge. This is an extreme perversion that Leftists and Secular Humanists are HARD BENT to manufacture as acceptable normalcy in American and Western Culture. It is an attack on Christianity as the foundation for morality of Western Society.

This is one of the valid accusations Mohammedans are able to deliver in propaganda against the West: homosexuality is immoral debauchery that pollutes Western Culture based on Christianity.

Why might You ask is homosexual pride parades an attack on Christianity? Do not people have the right to believe as they wish? Indeed American has a Constitutional right to assemble and promote their beliefs. However the rub is that the same government that validates deviant behavior is also the same government that will not allow Christians their lawful Constitutional right to protest the public expression of deviant behavior.

Police Forces across the nation have been infiltrated by homosexuals that utilize their power to harass Christians and arrest them while exercising their free speech. In St. Petersburg, Florida the cops arrested protesting Christians for merely having signs bigger than their torso. Did you read that?! There is a torso/sign regulation in St. Petersburg to limit Free Speech. Yet homosexuals are allowed to parade down the street slithering like serpents in overtly vulgar costume (sometimes the lack of any costume) to tell the word “we are homosexuals” and we have the same rights as normal people.

Hmmm … There is something wrong with that picture.

JRH
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Protesting pastors jailed – signs wider than torsos

Police at homosex-fest use girth to enforce free-speech limitations

By Jay Baggett
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Posted: June 30, 2007
9:40 p.m. Eastern

St. Petersburg, Fla., officials made good on their plan to limit free speech at the city's homosexual festival this weekend by arresting five Christians for carrying signs "wider than their torsos" outside the officially designated protest area.

Pastor Billy Ball, Assistant Pastor Doug Pitts, Frankie Primavera and Josh Pettigrew, all of Faith Baptist Church in Primrose, Ga., were arrested today after leaving the area set aside by city officials for protest activities. Bill Holt, of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Jefferson, Ga., was also taken into custody.

According to Lighthouse Pastor Kevin Whitman, the five men were told by police their signs were not allowed outside the protest area because they were wider than their torsos. When the men refused to put them away, they were arrested for violating a controversial city ordinance that governs permitted events.

"We had police officers tell us bigger people could carry bigger signs than smaller people – it all depended on how big your torso was," said Whitman, who, with several others, returned to the officially designated protest area rather than face arrest.

"Our signs were just standard foam-poster board," he said. "Nothing big – maybe six inches wider than our torsos. If we had just rotated them, the police would have been OK with them. But then, you couldn't read the message."

As WND reported, St. Petersburg officials, following disturbances at a previous homosexual pride festival, implemented rules governing outdoor events that set aside "free speech zones," where protesters are allowed.

The resulting ordinance came under fire by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Alliance Defense Fund for being too broad. It allows the city to create prior restraints of speech on an event-by-event basis, with virtually no predictable limits. It also criminalizes certain free speech behavior around public events and authorizes the police to enforce breaches of permits – the penalty for such breaches being arrest.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida sent a letter last Monday to St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker and Police Chief Charles Harmon calling for changes to both the city's ordinance regarding the "free speech zones" and event-permit enforcement.

"This ordinance essentially gives the city the power to violate people's rights on an event-by-event basis. It's especially unlawful to tell people where they can speak or can't, simply based on the viewpoint of the speaker or the content of the speech," said Rebecca Harrison Steele, director of the ACLU of Florida's West Central Office.

"The streets and sidewalks of the entire city should be a free speech zone for everyone," Steele said.

While St. Petersburg officials dropped the term, "free speech zone," the final modification made to the permit for the homosexual festival still retained the restrictive policy.

Demonstrators were permitted to use amplified sound and wave banners of any size, including in the restricted event area, only during the pride parade and for a few minutes before and after. During other times, they could be used only in the set-aside area. The policy for large signs and signs mounted on sticks restricted their bearers to the restricted zone.

According to Whitman, several of the demonstrators with him heard the police make several references to the "free speech zone" when telling protesters where they could stand.

Ball is no stranger to the conflict between homosexual activism and the First Amendment.

He and four other men were arrested last year at the Atlanta homosexual pride event for "criminal trespass" after walking, accompanied by several other pastors, within 300 yards of the Dyke Parade. The arresting officer, an avowed lesbian, responded to his inquiries about compelling governmental interest with an angry brush-off: "I'm not taking questions today, I'm giving orders."

Within minutes, five of the men were handcuffed and locked in a stainless steel paddy wagon across the street, where they waited in 100-plus degree heat until they were paraded through an Atlanta precinct. Ball required medical attention after his stay in the steaming, unventilated paddy wagon, and said the men were required to remain handcuffed even when they needed to use the restroom.

After a night in the Fulton County jail, the men were released under the condition that they notify the city of Atlanta of their whereabouts every month. To Ball's chagrin, the men have not yet been arraigned, their $2 million lawsuit is hung up in red tape, and a year later, the case has not even gone to trial. According to Ball's wife, Sandra, the pastor continues to check in regularly with Atlanta officials.

Ball and other members of his church preached freely at the 2007 Atlanta pride event, but others who carried signs were threatened with arrest unless they moved to approved protest sites.

Ball and Pitts are also scheduled to appear in court in Hendersonville, N.C. on Monday for a March arrest for preaching on the street without a permit. Since the arrests and pastors' stint in jail, Hendersonville has rescinded the old law that required the police chief to sign off before anyone delivered sermons or demonstrated on public grounds, including sidewalks and streets. The two pastors are hoping their case will now be dismissed.

SlantRigt Editor: I have to point out something in all fairness. The ACLU and the ADF joined each other to contact the City officials about the Unconstitutionality of limiting Free Speech in St. Petersburg. The ACLU and the ADF are nearly legal beagle enemies that view the Constitution differently: the former tends to be slanted left and the later tends to slanted right.
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The Continued Onslaught Against Christianity
John R. Houk
© July 1, 2007
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Protesting pastors jailed – signs wider than torsos
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