Quiet Dignity of Little Girl Facing a Ranting Bigoted Preacher

[kairos12]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/rainbow-flag-girl-zea_n_7702856.html
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Zea, a 7-year-old first grader, stood firm in the face of hate over the weekend at a celebration of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. When a preacher began ranting at her through a microphone, little Zea quietly waved her rainbow flag and never backed down.

Kind of reminds of the guy who stood in front of that tank back in China in 1989.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. in the few seconds of video... i must have missed the hate

he never says anything about gay people... never calls anyone anything... tells the little girl to look to Jesus. was there more to see?

sP

[Darb]

3. Their sign should be a dead giveaway.

Doesn't take much intuition to get the drift. And yelling at a little girl about anything on the street, one that you probably do not know, is the epitome of dickness.

Are you saying what you saw was ok behavior? Because it was definitely not.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. well, he's a street preacher, yelling at everyone

and the little girl walks up to him... should he have looked away from her? maybe. other than that, what I saw was completely acceptable (well, I don't care for the amplified voice bit)... there are plenty of christians who believe that hell is a literal place and that it is where you go if you don't accept Jesus as your savior and he and his partner would seem to fall into that category.

maybe he is a bigot... maybe he's just preaching what millions upon millions of christians believe... that without christ, you have no hope of salvation.

sP

[Darb]

9. It's not ok and he's a dick.

He should concentrate on someone that can kick his arrogant ass if he is so "devoted" to his fantasy. Not yelling at a little girl. Pull that shit with me and there is a different ending entirely.

[Caretha]

15. Yes a bigot

And definitely an adult without a single functioning brain cell.

Do tell us, what world do you live in that that is ever okay???? Answer if you friggin' dare!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

17. ah, internet tough-guy with a dare! fun

i live in a world where words are always ok... even shouting them. i am not afraid of words. i am not afraid of people shouting them... even at my kids. my kids would simply laugh that off... even my eight year old. you walk up to a guy with a microphone yelling about this or that on the street, don't expect him to pipe down for you. but you can be afraid if you want. you can do your best to think that he shouldn't have the right to be there or be doing what he is doing. it's ok... really... it is.

sP

[Caretha]

21. What I see

is that you believe abusing children is okay.

Somehow I think you missed Jesus' message.

BTW, I never in your wildest dreams said that he didn't have the right to be there. Leaning down and shouting at a child is abuse. If you think that is okay....you believe in abusing children.

[mac56]

25. Obviously you see no imbalance of power between a little girl and a grown-ass man.

But, do, keep defending him.

[randys1]

48. Cant, wont believe I read that on this board...NO fucking way that PRICK street

preacher is being defended here

[mac56]

51. May I direct you to Post #5.

And more. I got tired of reading the rest of his comments.

[LanternWaste]

56. Internet tough guys are almost as bemusing as faith-based skeptics..

Internet tough guys are almost as bemusing as faith-based skeptics pretending to posses absolute knowledge of their docile and stolid reactions to something they'll allege happened to them before

That's the great thing about the internet... we pretend we know what we'd laugh off ans accept on faith, our pretense.

[Orrex]

58. Excellent point.

[amuse bouche]

19. "yelling at everyone"

He's bending down and yelling his brain wash propaganda, right at the child

Hard to miss

Can't imagine why anyone would defend this sick bully?

[irisblue]

41. you suprised me PJM

that guy is wrong.

[we can do it]

61. Shoving your jeezus dick in other's faces is not ok.

[Le Taz Hot]

8. Yeah, because going up and SCREAMING

at a 7-year-old is always appropriate. Are you fucking kidding me?????? If her parents wanted her to "look to Jesus" then that's up to them and certainly not up to a complete stranger getting in her face and screaming.

This place is unbelievable sometimes. Screaming at a child is now OK.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

10. he was screaming at everyone... and she walked up to him...

but people see what they want to see...

sP

[Le Taz Hot]

13. So, you're saying, with a straight face,

that he didn't bend down, look straight at her, and SCREAM at her? Really? That what you're telling me? Don't bother to answer, I won't see it. I make it a policy not to address people who think it's perfectly OK to abuse children.

Buh bye.

[Fred Sanders]

16. I think the poster is clear enough. The pastor was saving the little girl from Eternal Hellfire!

Only Jesus Saves. No Jesus? Welcome to hell, sinner!

A little yelling into the face of a child is for the child's own salvation!

That millions and millions believe that must make it true...kind of like Fox and their ratings.

[AnnetteJacobs]

27. "No Jesus? Then straight to hell with you!"

"Oh, and we're a truly loving, caring community by the way. (singing) They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love..."

[Fred Sanders]

29. I think the hymn is translated "...ye shall know us by our Christian love..of our Christian selves."

"And our hate of thee".

[Bluenorthwest]

18. He steps toward her twice in that short clip, while pointing a finger and looking down at her.

She's a tiny child.

[randys1]

49. AT which point an adult should have been right in his face. This guy is harmless, I think

in the sense of violence, but many who would support him and believe like him are not.

These are deeply disturbed people, and I am talking about the ENTIRE teaparty, BTW

[Surya Gayatri]

26. Here ya go:

Who got in whose face?

[Sheepshank]

37. She will never forget this moment...ever

neither will her near and dear friends and famiy and to a lesser extendt, the rest of the public seeing this exchange. It seriously does not endear religion to many of our youngsters...and the dying demographics of church attendance proves this. Kids are turned off by fire, brimstone, intolerance.

[randys1]

50. As I have often said, either evolution means everybody has a gun and bible, 100 yrs from now

or practically nobody does.

The answer is clear to me

[Person 2713]

53. Never heard that before

[randys1]

54. When you think about it, makes sense, right! I mean usually I am just screaming

about racism or whatever, but once in a while I quietly say something everybody can agree with.




wait


Maybe not everybody

[SunSeeker]

44. He specifically addressed HER, yelling her "world" will give her "pain," "divorce," and "heartache."

See post 26.

Who says that to a kid?

[d_legendary1]

55. I agree with you

Anyone who allows their children to walk up to crazy people to prove a point needs their head examined. Last I checked the street preacher has a right to profess his hate as much as the LBGT have a right celebrating their pride.



“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

-Stephen Fry

[awoke_in_2003]

63. You are obtuse. nt

[peacebird]

2. Brave litle girl, glad the people in the crowd kept coming up to give her high fives!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. Me too.

I liked that and the determined look on her face.

[Botany]

4. Loves me some Comfest kids!

n/t

[Renew Deal]

7. Your post reminds me of an Office episode

The one where Michael is setting up his dating profile.

[Botany]

12. I was just at the very same area last Saturday ....

..... good thing I wasn't there when that a-hole was giving the little
girl his hate.

[Renew Deal]

14. I was thinking the same way

But we might not have this iconic image if things turned out differently.

[irisblue]

42. Comfest, the party with a purpose:)

since 1972 .

[Le Taz Hot]

6. And that's about the time I would have been handcuffed and thrown in jail

for decking that asshole. How DARE he scream at that child! Grrrrrr!!!!

[daleanime]

23. Would have been a very large.....

Temptation.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Whenever I am faced with an impossible situation, I always think

of the picture of that little girl who had to go through taunting and jeering from racists to attend school. She had an expression of composure that I consider heroic.

Glad to see that same spirit carries on to this generation.

[Surya Gayatri]

28. Here's that other hero:

[kairos12]

31. Wonderful painting. I remember it well. Thanks.

[Surya Gayatri]

38. ...

[ronnie624]

62. It says something quite positive about Norman Rockwell.

I've always been drawn to his artwork.

[Baitball Blogger]

34. That's the one that Rockwell painted.

The picture of the real thing is very powerful.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. This one, I think?

[Baitball Blogger]

46. That's it.

The good ole gals sneering behind her back. Some things never change.

[Surya Gayatri]

39. This is what you're thinking of, I believe...

[Baitball Blogger]

47. That's the one that Rockwell memorialized.

But I think the other photograph was the one that was emblazoned in my memory.

[Number23]

64. That one makes me cry.

Her little briefcase. With her freshly pressed dress and having to be escorted to school by cops.

[Surya Gayatri]

66. On her skinny little legs, walking resolutely into history...

Love the look of pure, steely determinaton on her face, too.

[allan01]

20. lovely

i thought that most places require a permit for a megaphone in public.

[tiptonic]

22. Looks like

He kinda looks like one of the duggar boys to me.

[fasttense]

24. A child that age usually has NOT learned such composure in the face of obvious hatred.

Most children her age would have turned and run away. I even know adults who would have turned away. She stood her ground and quietly looked on. Amazing.

[Fred Sanders]

30. She has grace...the "pastor"/crazy man has not a clue what grace is.

[fasttense]

32. Well put, yes she has Grace. n/t

[packman]

33. I kinda like this preacher's approach toward children

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[Betty Karlson]

68. And when one of the boys tells his boyfriend about that day

even the boyfriend may be converted.

(mutatis mutandis the same can be said for one of the girls.)

[Sheepshank]

35. And Christendom wonders why the younger group shun their churches?

It's really not that hard to figure out that in general, people are turned off by hate and bigotry.

[niyad]

43. may that bastard receive everything he deserves, bullying a child like that.

[hamsterjill]

45. Good for Zea!

And good for the parent(s) that have raised this child to understand and be strong!

[Orrex]

52. He's afraid of her because she's bigger than he is.

And the more he screams, the smaller he gets.

[demmiblue]

57. Wise words/observation.

[Vinca]

59. What kind of whack job harasses a little kid? Sheesh.

[Phentex]

60. kick

[Rhiannon12866]

65. Wow! K&R! Video here:

[Tsiyu]

67. Moar info

for the information challenged:

This was at an arts and music festival. Let me repeat that more loudly this time for the stupid and the stubborn:

THIS WAS AT AN ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL.

If bringing your child to an arts and music festival is now considered "exploiting" ones' child, conservatives ( and make no mistake, there are some on this thread ritecheer )have officially lost their minds.

This grown, maladjusted, narcissistic bully - who uses Jayzuss as his personal sledgehammer - showed up at an ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL TO RUIN THE DAY FOR PEOPLE INTO THE ARTS, who all must certainly be godless heathens.

Prior to this BULLY's encounter with our young heroine, he was screaming very vile and nasty things, and only chilled the content of his words for the camera.

He was escorted away by security.

Zea stood up to him because he was screaming vile and nasty things at an ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL PARADE. Suppose a bunch of gay people showed up at a church social and started screaming vile things and yelling at Christian little girls? Would the Christians not go fucking ballistic?

To those who condone this abusive preacher's behavior: a big fat, rainbow-colored FUCK YOU.

Just checked in to say this. Love all of you. Back to work.

Edit to add: Hyeer in Tinnissie, all the Christians are cheering for the guy. Because they believe being Christ like ( the Holy Comforter lol) is screaming and ranting and raging. That's the only Jayzuss they know. One moar friggin edit: not ALL the Christians, just the ones who comment on social media.

Show kindness or mercy or gentleness toward children or anyone? GOD HATES YOU AND YOU WILL BURN IN HELL!!!!!!

Lovely religion they believe here.