Not Helpful to Christians or Queers

A group called Bash Back! is protesting recent legislation that minimizes the equal regard for LGBT couples regard marriage.

(O)n Sunday November 9th, about thirty radical queers from Lansing, Chicago, Memphis and Milwaukee disrupted the church’s most well-attended sermon.

At noon, a small group of folks dressed in pink and black, equipped with a megaphone, black flags, picket signs and an upside-down pink cross began demonstrating outside the church. The group was extremely loud and wildly offensive.

The problem is in the self-identification of the group as "radical". Any form of radicalism only breeds contempt from the rational middle and increased hostility from the radical opposition. Two radical groups need each other to exist. The case in point is the Americans for Truth response.

Note below the diversionary tactics that enabled the hate group to disrupt Mount Hope’s worship service. We want to know if the Michigan Attorney General is going to investigate and prosecute the twerps that organized this hateful attack — or is the whole “hate crimes” concept a one-way street that serves only politically correct causes like homosexuality?

What actions like these do is garner attention to the radical outliers of a movement and crowd out the middle majority who are not supportive of the rhetoric or actions of either group. These kinds of groups claim representative authority for their ideological positions.

This is a disservice on both sides: to Christians who are trying to find ways to reconcile the LGBT community to their congregations, and to those who prefer same gender relationships who are patiently and peacefully protesting what they see as a rejection of equal of regard under the law. Sectarian and cultic activity breeds an equal and opposite reaction. This is why MLK Jr. chose peace to diffuse the violence and hateful rhetoric on either side. For folks in the LGBT community, that is your legacy. Follow it and your day of change is inevitable.

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