Originally posted by pieman
great, well good for you, but i have to say there are less vocal christians on ATS than this time last year.
besides, i don't see this as a christian vs gay issue, painting it that way degrades it. it is now a fundamental issue of democracy. whatever your
views are, the basic truth is that a group that here to fore championed tolerance and acceptance is becoming more and more vocally bigoted.
the idea of gay people saying anyone should stay out of "their neighborhoods" sickens me, the idea that this civil rights movement would resort to
whining and slander when things go against them sickens me, the idea that gay people should damn the democracies that gave them any freedom they have
because they failed to convince it that they were right sickens me.
I'd like to say that if you went to a gay bar without the pretext of trying to "pray the gay away" and just wanted to go to meet people, you'd
find a bar full of normal, caring people trying to have a good time with their friends.
Shouting "Shame on you" is not bigotry when they are shouting at people who have come to harass them in a totally inappropriate environment,
situation, and time.
Gay people don't care if straight people come to their neighborhood - heck the whole town could come chug a few, play pool, dance, whatever and they
would care less.
What they do care about is people coming to prosyletize to them in the one place where they are accepted without question - Where they can hold a
partner's hand and not get odd stares from people, or feel ashamed about who they are and scared of retribution and condemnation if their nature is
discovered by those who don't like it.
In fact, the entire title of this thread is misleading and loaded. It makes it seem like gays grabbed a bunch of pitch forks and torches and swarmed
around some innocent nuns praying the rosary, when in fact all they did was walk outside of the bar they were in and started yelling "Shame on you"
to the people who went out of their way to issue a thinly veiled judgement.
Like it's been mentioned before, the Christians had every right to go and sing and protest, but the reaction from the bar patrons was completely
expected and completely deserved. And as I also stated earlier, it's obvious one of the Christians was filming this, so I'm less inclined to think
they were there for peaceful reasons and more inclined to incite something juicy so they could get it on camera.
buut thats not going to come out of my mouth. 
