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cleanhippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-11 06:03 PM
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At Anti-Gay Rally in NYC Rev. Calls Gay People 'Worthy of Death'
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Several thousand people rallied in the Bronx, New York yesterday against the impending push to legalize same-sex marriage. Organizers, including state Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz, several Spanish radio stations and churches, argued that marriage should be defined as a union between “one man and one woman” and urged the state government to abandon their effort or put the initiative up to a vote. “Let the people decide. If the people say yes, we’ll shut up,” Diaz said at the steps of the Bronx court house. “Bring it to the people, bring it to the people…look at the people!” he yelled to the crowd of several thousand Hispanic Americans.

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And while the march and rally focused on the Christian message of “love,” the event remained deeply homophobic, with speakers routinely condemning gay people as “sinners” and describing same-sex relations as something wholly unnatural or perverse. In fact, just minutes before Diaz took to the microphone to stress his respect for gay people, Rev. Ariel Torres Ortega of Radio Visión Cristiana said that the gay people are “worthy of death”:

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/589432/at_anti-gay_rally_in_nyc_rev._calls_gay_people_%27worthy_of_death%27/

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Just a few more of those "fundamentalists" who are in the minority, right?
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