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Anti-Gay Bigotry in Latvia

By stcynic on August 8, 2006.

George Clinton (I really hope it was the George Clinton) emailed me with this link to a story about anti-gay bigots in Latvia. The city of Riga refused to issue a permit for a gay pride parade, but that wasn't good enough for these cretins. They couldn't even let a group of gay rights activists attend church in peace. On the way out, they threw eggs at them and dumped bags of feces over their heads.

Anti-gay demonstrators hurled feces and eggs at gay rights activists and their supporters who were leaving a church service in the Latvian capital on Saturday.

About 20 protesters had gathered outside the Anglican church in Riga where gay activists, who had been denied a permit to stage a gay pride parade, were attending a service. A handful of the protesters lobbed eggs and emptied bags of feces on the churchgoers as they walked out the building.

"I think Latvia got a little smaller today," said Anglican Latvian-American pastor Juris Calitis, who said he, too, was struck by waste. He accused Latvian churches of stirring up anti-gay sentiment in the Baltic country.

Praise the Lord; that's just what Jesus would do.

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Now what kind of person does it take to get up in the morning, get ready for church, and say, "Hey, I think I should pack up some feces to throw on the gay people there..." Jebus.

I have the image of a fanatic stooping over an empty bag, trying his hardest to "shit...for THE LORD!"

Well, I guess we can take this as a stunning act of honesty on the gay-bashers' part: they're giving all they have to the public debate, and showing their true colors.