Anti-gay preacher visits campus: You have to see what the students did next

[babylonsister]

Anti-gay preacher visits campus: You have to see what the students did next
Preacher tells gay couple they're going to hell for holding hands. But then the students start to sing to drown his idiocy out
17 September 2014 | By Joe Morgan


A preacher came to a campus to talk idiocy. Bet he wasn't expecting this.

When an anti-gay preacher decided to visit a Virginia university yesterday (16 September), he was expecting a perfect opportunity to spout his nonsense for everyone to hear.

But it turns out, not many people could hear his sermon.

Instead, the James Madison University students gathered around the preacher, singing a song of love and tolerance. With one guy on guitar, the group begins to sing 'How He Loves', a Christian song by John Mark McMillon. And with it, you can't hear the preacher at all.

According to reports on social media, the preacher began his sermon by telling a gay couple holding hands they were going to hell.

Once the song was finished, he told the large body of students they were headed 'straight to hell'.

'Jesus loves you all!' a student says in response.

Watch the video below:

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/anti-gay-preacher-visits-campus-you-have-see-what-students-did-next170914

[KurtNYC]

1. my college had a whole slew of recruiters and political activists that targeted new students

There was a guy ("Brother Jed," I think) who would accost students who were walking by about everything. He would ramble along and then point and yell "You won't need a match to light that CIGARETTE in Hell because there's a lake of fire !" He was really rude and full of himself.

Moonies, Scientologists with "personality" tests, LaRouche'es. There was one likeable pair in the mix, "General Hershey Bar" and his sidekick "General Waste More Land."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Hersheybar

[JaneFordA]

3. "Brother" Jed...

... tried something similar at University of Kentucky in the autumn of '75. Got a cool-off in the fountain on Patterson Square. A good memory of a very good day.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. "Brother Jed" sounds familiar. I think he hit Carbondale in the 70's also.

Crazy old coot hung up on 'fornicators' I think.

[hifiguy]

17. Ah, Brother Jed.

He and Sister Cindy showed up on-campus at the U of Minnesota every spring, returning like a belch from a bad onion. People would take lawn chairs, sandwiches and coolers of soda and beer out to spend the day heckling them. Those were the days.

[KurtNYC]

20. "Sister Cindy" !

I almost forgot her. They are still out there touring college campuses btw.

[hifiguy]

21. They'll be out there forever, or until they're fitted for toe tags.

I remember them from the early 80s.

And aren't those two "military" guys in your post in the same outfit as General Phukup and Major Disaster?

[KurtNYC]

22. haven't seen disaster or phukup -- only hersheybar and wastemoreland

I thought I heard that Hersheybar passed recently. Here is a brief interview with Wastemoreland where he tells how he got the name:

[tanyev]

2. Nice.

[MineralMan]

4. Sounds like Holy Hubert.

Back in the late 1960's, he showed up at colleges and universities to call students sinners and harlots. Typically, he'd come to some public square where students gathered and begin his harangue. Generally, he was welcomes with jeers and laughter.

More here:

http://quirkyberkeley.com/gone-4-old-weird-telegraph-part-five-church-and-state/

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Always had street preachers cruising around the Drag at UT-Austin, yelling about how everybody is

going to hell.

Education is the enemy.

Submit yourself to rightwing fantasy.

What a bunch of douchebags!

[Eleanors38]

6. I saw a string of 'em there. Good time to practice loud belching.

[joshdawg]

7. About the same thing in San Diego in the early to mid-sixties

when I was stationed there. These preachers would stand at the Plaza on Broadway street and spew their religious and other types of b.s. to anyone who had the stomach to listen.

[awoke_in_2003]

23. "Education is the enemy"

I don't think it is a mistake that the "original sin" was eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. I have a ultra christian co-worker that love Apple products (well, I do, too)- I cannot believe he cannot see the meaning of the Apple logo

[nonoxy9]

8. This makes me happy!

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

[TlalocW]

9. We had a guy who became my Friday afternoon entertainment

When I only had one early class. He would normally set up on the library lawn and yell at all us sinners.

Things I did to him
After being told that looking at women with lust in your heart turns them into whores, I turned to an attractive woman and said, "I would very much like to apologize from the bottom..." As I faded out, I pretended to be mesmerized by her chest before snapping back. "Oh, yes... Where was I?" Preacher called me a whoremonger.
Once while walking about half a football field length from him, I gave my backpack to a friend walking with me. I then struck a dramatic pose and yelled, "EVANGELIST!" to get him to turn around and look at me. When he did, I start running as fast as I could while screaming, "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" He jumped into the crowd to get away.
Once while going on about the evils of music and dancing, I saw a Latina friend of mine walking to class. I called her over and asked her to walk me through a salsa step she was trying to teach me. So we started dancing in front of the guy, and he started yelling at us. My friend was confused at first then caught on and enjoyed the joke and even yelled at him for a while.

And best of all, due to repeatedly yelling a catchphrase of, "Tell us about the gay monkeys, damn it!" at him, I became known as Gay Monkey Man (it involved wanting him to explain why there's homosexuality in other animals if they don't have souls - he had no good answer). Years later I was the 4th person to arrive at a lecture being given by James Randi. He was setting up, and there were a man and a woman already in the room who looked at me strangely and then asked, "This might sound crazy, but... are you Gay Monkey Man?" That got a quizzical look from Randi, and I said, "It involves mocking a street preacher who didn't like homosexuals very much," which then got a smile from him. That made me happy.

I looked at the online version of the campus newspaper once and saw that after I had left, a grad student had taken to dressing like a wizard and competing against him when he came to preach, claiming he wanted to save student souls and validate their parking.

TlalocW

[derby378]

15. Here's a picture of Randi with my wife (ChickMagic on DU) from 2002

[ProfessorGAC]

18. That's A Hilarious Story Thom

Thanks for sharing that.

[Jester Messiah]

10. God sure doesn't like his creation much, according to some people.

To their god, I can only say "It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools." How much poorer then the craftsman who blames his work on itself?

[oldandhappy]

11. Excellent!!!

Gotta use this in other situations. Thank you for the post.

[riqster]

12. Lots of those dinky-doos infested THE Ohio State University's open spaces.

I would just call out a bible verse that contradicted their screeching screeds as I walked by. Shut them up for a few seconds.

[AllyCat]

14. Awesome! I'm not a Christian music fan, but this song warmed my heart

Actually sounded Christian instead of hateful.

[William769]

16. Great article thanks for posting.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Seems like a good place to insert "You aint got no pancake mix!"