Pro-Homosexuals Attempt to Rip TFP Sign in Newport |
| By John Ritchie |
| March 19, 2011 |
Five minutes after we began campaigning on the waterfront in Newport, the police arrived and verified that our demonstration for traditional marriage was being conducted, as usual, in an orderly fashion on the public sidewalk. But it didn’t take too long before a group of pro-homosexual individuals arrived, attempting to silence our free speech. They bullied us. They cursed. And they spat at us.
Free speech under attack
The Newport waterfront is lined with small, upscale shops and restaurants and other attractions and a fair amount of people strolled about enjoying the sunny, brisk sea breeze. When the TFP campaign started, the bagpipes attracted a lot of interest. They seemed to make the evening even more enjoyable for the families walking on the sidewalk. But the calmness of the afternoon did not last very long.
A man with a British accent approached, yelling: “Bigots! Haters!” He told TFP volunteers to go home and “get out of town.” It was kind of strange to hear someone with a distinct foreign accent telling corn-fed Americans to go home. A while later, other pro-homosexual agitators spilled out of a restaurant to harass us. One of them physically pushed us, another attempted to rip our traditional marriage sign, and a third screamed and spat at us. Without exception, they all used obscene language and vulgar insults.
Hearing the pro-homosexual advocates hurling invectives, a puzzled pedestrian who was on the fence regarding traditional marriage, asked: “Did they just say what I thought they did?” TFP volunteer Mr. Charles Sulzen replied: “Yes, they did, we get that all the time.” The insults instantly turned the undecided pedestrian into a traditional marriage supporter.
The police arrived and established some order. But even they were harassed by the pro-homosexual advocates who insisted that our freedom of speech be silenced and that we be thrown out of town. It was fairly clear who was bullying who and the police allowed us to remain where we were as long as we wished. In fact, two police officers remained nearby for the duration of the campaign.
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Two emotionally charged parents stopped to discuss the issue. “We’re good Catholics. Our son is gay and it’s not wrong. You want us to hate our son?” A TFP volunteer explained how one must hate the sin, but love the sinner. “We must hate the sin, love the sinner and pray that your son returns to the path of virtue.”
The parents disagreed: “No. We don’t hate the sin. Our priest told us it’s OK.”
“Catholic teaching is very clear. You cannot be a good Catholic and support homosexual acts,” replied the TFP member. “Homosexuality is like abortion, it’s part of the culture of death.”
“No it’s not. Abortion is a choice,” said the couple and then began cursing as they turned away.
From yells to a handshake
Something unusual happened next. A young lady stopped to debate, using more insults and clichés than reason. When I first saw her, she was practically yelling. After about ten minutes listening to Mr. John Miller, I looked back and saw her shaking his hand in a friendly manner. Her attitude had completely changed. “Well, thank you for talking to me,” she said. “I apologize for what I said earlier. I’m sorry. Now, I’m going to read your flier. Thank you! ”
Please continue to pray for the victory of traditional marriage in Rhode Island, and for the TFP volunteers who are now traveling from city to city, campus to campus, defending God’s law.
God bless you!
Related:
- Pro-Homosexuals at Brown University Respond with Violence
- VIDEO: Pro-Homosexuals Attempt to Rip TFP Sign in Newport
- VIDEO: Voice of the Unborn in Boston
- VIDEO: Victory for God’s Marriage in Maryland
- Brown University Update: Cheers & Jeers
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Comments
Respectfully disagree. It is subject to interpretation. Hence Vatican I, Vatican II, etc.
By prayer and sacramental grace they can and should approach Christian perfection.(C.C.C 2357-2359)
The catholic church is clear on this matter,it does not condemn the sinner only the sin. The church also provides help to those who need to overcome this lifestyle."Courage" is a church approved support group for help for those to who need deliverance from this lifestyle.
Best wishes.
To put up with the abuse of such hate filled people simply because you are standing up for God shows that Christian courage and charity are alive and well in men like these.
Well, to start, if our country was based on sharia law, those gay rights supporters would be keeping to themselves in some deep, dark corner of the country, or they'd hanged to stoned to death.
Secondly, there is no right to marry in the Constitution, as family law is reserved soley to the states.
Third, the arguments against "gay marriage" are secular, namely that states regulate marriage because raising healthy children is necessary for that state to survive. It is not regulated to make people "happy" and leave gays feeling miserable. It's not about feelings at all.
We know the BIBLE is authentic because it is about Truth. Jesus is the Truth. The Bible instructs us to love God, who is Jesus with all our might and to love our neighbor as ourself.
The universe is based on these principles: to be selfish is to be as close to the devil as you can get because God is all good and generous.
Homosexuality by its very nature is selfish.
having a tendency & doing it. I could use more financial support, but I don't go out &
rob the $. God gives us crosses to bear. How we carry them is our way of loving God or saying,"no". There is no doubt in my mined that PRACTICING homosexuality is a "no" to God's invitation to spend eternity with Him.
Keep up the great work!
Me too! I urge you to stay strong and pray much. It is worth it! Our ability to resist is tied up in an essential way to the amount of time we spend in prayer (that is, in the company of Jesus). I only speak from experience. God bless.
It sounds like they are telling us to accept it. That it's not their fault they are gay. Which also suggests that they accept that they are not part of the norm.
Then why not try to find a cure? It is clearly not normal, and serves no real value from a biological standpoint, so why not seek out the cure?
It also makes me laugh when the pro gays bring up the tiny percentages of priests who molested boys. Most, who were gay, as a matter of fact. But don't dare mention that all public school teachers are child molesters as well. Well they must be right? Public school teachers have in fact, molested children, so, they must all be child molesters, right?
I wish i could stand beside you, but I'm in Australia.
Praise be to Jesus, Thank you Mother Mary. You guys are spirit filled, and as Jesus was persecuted for the TRUTH it is obvious you also will be, as He said it in the Gospel. Pray for the sinners that God will make them see the TRUTH and they be saved. My prayers for You.
I am not Catholic. However, the Bible is VERY clear about homosexuality.
Catholic teaching is clear, though it is also open to interpretation...by the Magisterium, not by anyone with an opinion, which includes your local priest (he is not automatically part of the Magisterium). Vatican I and II - need to you cite actual numbers where you think that this is up for debate. More probable is that you are referencing a document which seems greatly ambiguous because the people who try to twist it have never actually read it. They promote what they want and claim that it's in Vatican II, and even Vatican I. I don't know what you have been told is in the documents and I don't know by whom, but do everyone a favor and don't reference it until you know what your talking about. And please, get a good translation (ie: the first translation was horribly done and includes things that the original language never contained) since it was written in Latin.
Catholic teaching is VERY clear. However, Catholic teaching tells us that because man has FREE WILL he is FREE to interpret it. He may be right or wrong depending on his knowledge of Church teaching which the Catholic Church teaches is infallible in matters of Faith and Morals.
I admire you for getting your message out publicly but I think Silence would be the "better part of valor".
The March for Life in DC has always ignored the Pro Abortion protesters. To the Pro Life marchers it is just as if the opposition isn't there. For this reason, the March has continued to attract more and more people each year though the media ignores US. So, I think that it is an example of how God works through our "protests". No need to become an "occasion of sin" to those who disagree with our position. They just want to start a fight. Let them use profane language, obscene gestures and spitting. Offer it up as Jesus did at Calvary.
Protesting against this protest would be OK but attacking the protesters (and police) with force is not protesting.
There are plenty of "highly educated" idiots at my university. Sadly, a majority seem to be the faculty.
The protesters look like poisonous devils, whom you so soundly and logically refuted, they had no answer ... so hate spewed out of their mouths.
May God thoroughly bless you and give you the strength to carry out what the rest of us are not doing!
God bless you from Canada!
Vivat Jesus!!
May the truth be unveiled about homosexuality to those that accepted it,
Continue the good Works.
For those that are still unsure about homosexual marriage. Have you not noticed that it is no longer about homosexual marriage and that there is a full fledged attack on traditional values. Read the pro-homosexual agenda literature and you will see that they want to change: ideas about gender, sexual age of consent, definition of hate speech (as in taking away your first amendment rights.)
Keep up the work. You are very brave.
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