Double Standards

The "Battle Cry for Generation" at AT&T Park.
25,000 Evangelical Christians, mostly youths were in attendance.





Kenny "Hittman" Hitt over at tennepel.com posted a rant about the protesters on Friday at the beginning of the 2-day rally. Apparently about 50 protesters showed up to make their protests known to the gathering 25,000.

SFGate.com reported that the protesters were largely ignored, and when interviewed, students and pastors seemed to have no interest in controversy. Here is quote from the article:

Christian Gallion, a 15-year-old in town with his Assembly of God youth group from Humboldt County, shrugged off being called "fascists" by counterdemonstrators.

"It doesn't bother me," Gallion said. "It's a beautiful city, and we don't have anything against the protesters."

His youth pastor had no interest in engaging in political debates.

"I'm not here to hate anybody," Scott Thompson said. "This isn't about Bush or gays or anything other than being here to worship together.

Any large rally of any religious or political nature is going to garner some protesters. That the number was only 50, and that the rally itself was a paid event does not make it newsworthy.

What was newsworthy was, well, in this case I largely agree with the Hittman's statement:

Assemblyman Mark Leno said of the teens "they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco." His is a name long known to conservative newshounds for his legislative insanity:

- Sponsorship of a bill provision allowing an exemption of up to 100 pieces of child pornography for "personal use"
- Blocking "Jessica's Law", which would require strict enforcement of child molestation laws and harsher punishments
- Proposing a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in contradiction to a previous citizen-ratified marriage-definition proposition
- Calling Arnold Schwarzenegger a "homophobe" when the Governator jokingly called political opponents "girlie men"
- Supporting a bill that would ban tasers
- Supporting an unconstitutional bill that would ban ownership of guns in the San Francisco city limits

So, we have a Constitution-violating advocate of pedophilia slinging invectives at a group of kids who want to build churches and help the community.

The only major problem with Hitt's article is the headline which assumes that all 25,000 people at this rally, all Christians, were also all Conservatives. I'm certian a large number in the crowd and a great many pastors are Liberal. They are just as concerned with issues like pronography, the bombarding of our youth with messages that are self-destructive and on and on.

But Hitt failed to note, perhaps, the worst aspect being the intolerance shown by city officials. Liberal politicians (which are more the norm in the Bay Area) is supposed to be more tolerant and open-minded. But according to the S.F. Chronicle,

The teens were greeted Friday at a kick-off rally at City Hall by an official city condemnation and protesters who called them anti-gay, anti-choice and intolerant. Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, suggested they "get out of San Francisco."

Apparently they official condemnation was a first for a rally at a public stadium in the City.

That's a problem.

But as usual our biased "Liberal Media" here in the Bay Area filed this report on the rally:

Fair, unbaised, and largely upbeat. Not all Liberals are the miror image of intolerant Conservatives...just a few.