Let’s Not Be Like Them

I think that the conservatives are losing the battle and are getting desperate, one group invaded a church and another group harassed a councilwomen in San Francisco.

Late last month a group of “Christians” invaded a Unitarian church service,

Abortion Protesters Interrupt Church Service, Tell Pro-Choice Worshippers To ‘Repent’
By Tara Culp-Ressler
Thonkprogress
Posted July 23, 2014

As the Uptown Messenger reports, anti-abortion activists interrupted worship at the church — specifically, disrupting a moment of silence for a church member who recently passed away — to declare that this particular church isn’t a “true faith” and tell the service attendees to “repent.” Operation Save America’s opinion about the First Unitarian Universalist Church is made clear on its website, which refers to the “church” and its “pastor” in scare quotes and calls it a “synagogue of Satan.”

They also held signs up in the windows for the children in the church nursery to see and they later bragged about raiding the church sanctuary and terrorizing the children.

In California the protesters have invaded city hall to protest a lesbian councilwomen.

Richmond councilwoman perseveres through hate speech
By Carolyn Jones
SF Gate
August 5, 2014

Mark Wassberg took to the podium, wagged his finger at the Richmond City Council and said:

"I'm going to keep coming up here and tell you how gays have no morality. ... You're filth. You're dirt. Because I have the constitutional right to say it."

The comments during a July meeting of the council were directed at Vice Mayor Jovanka Beckles, the city's first openly lesbian councilwoman. She sighed and listened impassively. After all, she'd heard it all before. For four years.

Since she was elected in 2010, Beckles, 51, has endured taunts, rants and ridicule about her sexual orientation and race - she's from Panama and identifies herself as a black Latina - during City Council meetings.

Sometimes it comes from the public, and sometimes it comes from fellow council members.

They think their cause is just, they think they are on a mission from god and they think that the ends justifies the means which makes for a deadly combination.

They think it is their “Religious Freedom” and it is being taken away, what they are really doing is using their religion to hide their bigotry behind. That their religious beliefs trump all other peoples religious beliefs.