The Washington Times ran this story about yesterday's event. From a paper known for a strong right-wing slant, this piece was reasonably well balanced.
The Washington Post did not run anything (at least not that I could find online) but they did have a story about today's Gay Pride festival in downtown DC. Perhaps they have a quota of one gay story per day.
Bruce Garret, whom I also met yesterday, has a brief writeup and photos from yesterday's protest up on his blog. Fortunately for you readers, I'm not in any of the pictures.
As Bruce mentions in his post, Steve Boese attended the conference and has the first in a series of posts up where he will share his impressions of the event. Boese is apparently open to the ex-gay concept and shares this about the rules regarding the conference:
"I was aware that conference organizers do a bag search as attendees enter the premises, and folks found to be carrying gay-affirming pamphlets, cards, or tracts may either have them confiscated or be asked to leave. Registration requires attendees to agree that LWO organizers reserve the right to remove anyone from the event without cause, and that any behavior perceived to be disruptive (including offering a gay-affirming pamphlet to a fellow attendee) would trigger removal."
There was only one point of view offered to people inside the church, which made what went on outside the church even more important.
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you know, it is a church and it belongs to those who attend and elect who runs it. they have every right to not permit pro-gay literature, speech in their church. they were not saying that people are unwelcome to attend. they were saying that they have a perspective and in their church they are protecting that perspective. there is nothing wrong with that. just as in my home ( a private place) i monitor what kind of conduct will be allowed. violence, profanity, sexual promiscuity and incest are not allowed in my home.
ReplyDeletewow, anon- thank goodness- incest is not allowed in your house. I have to say that going from profanity, violence and promiscuity to incest is actually scary to me. I don't think I have ever considered with the rules we have in our home(no smoking,no weapons,no underage drinking- and virtually no alcohol for anyone) or the things we don't allow(like cable TV, pornography, inappropriate clothing) that I would ever think of saying we don't allow incest. I mean I don't say we don't allow murder or rape- that should be given - right???
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