#719 Queer neighborhood? This is supposed to be the melting pot (preview)
TODAY: A far-right evangelical ministry stages an anti-LGBTQ protest in the heart of a queer Seattle community, and they are met with thousands of counter-protestors. We take a look at some homemade memes from the hypebeast minister and watch a conservative comment section spin conspiracy theories about how the city actually forced the group to protest there. ALSO: European leaders (including Starmer lol) begin to stand up to Israel and we learn the dangers of being sympathetic to Palestinian suffering. Get a bonus episode every week by signing up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for only $5/month
We came to worship and pray, but also to stand up for children and families to say as a church family, don't mess with our kids.
Bunny Pounds, the president and founder of Christians Engaged, shared.
No, that's not someone's real name.
It's B-U-N-N-I, Bunny Pounds.
You're not allowed to talk.
I guess they probably really hate porn.
Bunny Pounds probably really hates porn because of their name.
From the start, organizers faced opposition for wanting to gather peacefully and pray at the Seattle event, which was scheduled on May 24th.
Organizers from Mayday USA told Como News they initially sought to hold the event at Pike Place Market, with the city denied that permit, and redirected the group to Cal Anderson Park, an area with, quote, the most prominent gay neighborhood.
I love the idea of doing it at Pike Place.
Like getting hit with a flying fish while trying to protect your children.
Yeah, that would be awesome.
What are you fucking talking about?
Seattle is pretty much like, no, that's going to be too many people.
That place is already busy enough.
We don't need people there.
Take it somewhere else.
These handmade leather belts of the devil.
The ceramic stamped little dish that says Seattle in it, this is the debauchery we're fighting against.
Yeah.
You see these t-shirts?
You see these t-shirts that say Seattle on them?
Not cool.
Not cool.
That's the gateway.
I guess they do have a few Rainbow One options, so...
This is a child's flesh.
Don't try to sell me what I know is cannibalism.
You know, this is not only the first site of the first Starbucks, but this is also the first time where sodomy happened on American soil.
Also in Pike's Place.
Yeah, third place, they're talking about the butthole.
That's the only reason they had to build the city over the city, because too much sodomy was happening down there.
And I love this.
Okay, so this is the reporting here.
The city denied that permit and redirected the group to Cal Anderson Park, an area with the most prominent gay neighborhood.
Okay, so this is their defense because one of the biggest, like, I don't know, one of the biggest conflicts that people of Seattle had with this is you're coming to a gay neighborhood to do this shit.
You're coming to Cal Anderson Park and you're coming to, like, a gay neighborhood and a gay area of the city.
To preach this hateful shit about how, you know, whatever, being gay is a threat to our children and you're a child predator if you're a queer person or whatever.
So their defense is the city directed us to this park.
And the thing is, is like Seattle has dozens of parks that you can protest in.
I guarantee you Seattle did not say, you have to go to Cal Anderson Park in the gay neighborhood to hold this event.
They probably just gave them a list of actual parks where they could go rather than a fucking fish market.
Rather than a pier.
No, you can't hold your protest at a pier.
What are you talking about?
And so they're pretending that the city set them up for counter-protesting by having it In specifically Cal Anderson Park.
In response to the rally, numerous rioters set up in the park at the same time, including the, quote, radical women Seattle group, which told the local news affiliate that they were there to protest, quote, fascist family values.
So that's like the quote I kept hearing in reporting about this, and I was hoping that the mayor called these Christians fascists.
That would have been so funny.
That would have been awesome, yeah.
But apparently it didn't happen.
He called them far right, but he didn't use the other F word, which I'm ashamed.
I will not vote for you, Bruce Harrell, next time because of that.
Say it with your chest, bro.
Quote, In a column for Charisma News, Pounds described what took place that day.
Quote, So that rolls.
Well done.
I love how just at a moment's notice, At least a thousand people were ready to hit the park in support of gay and trans people.
And that rules.
Imagine what we could accomplish if we had a little more time to organize.
