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Homosexual 'Pride' Event Pushed Back Into Closet, Says Christian Group

by Allie Martin
April 3, 2006

(ChristiansUnite.com) - - The president of a Christian activist group is claiming victory after cancellation of an annual "gay pride" event in Charlotte, North Carolina.

For the past four years, members of Operation Save America (OSA) have turned out at the annual "Charlotte Pride" event, a spring gathering that has featured transvestite dancers, homosexual comedians, and vendor booths pushing sadomasochism (S&M) merchandise. Taking part in peaceful demonstrations, OSA members have distributed Christian tracts and literature that exposes the true agenda of homosexual activists and their supporters.

Now the event, which had been scheduled for the first weekend in May in downtown Charlotte's Marshall Park, has been cancelled, says the Christian activism group. OSA president Flip Benham asserts that support for the homosexual pride event dwindled as Christians became more vocal. Benham recalls the activities of his group at last year's event.

"We had ... hundreds of Christians singing beautiful songs, praise and worship songs, outside of the park. We had hundreds of them inside of the park, engaging in witnessing one-on-one," he says, "and what we had was the church of Jesus Christ now with her theology becoming biography in the streets of Charlotte." What happened this year? "This year the Charlotte Gay Pride Parade just said, 'Forget it; we can't take this. It isn't fun anymore,'" Benham shares.

The OSA leader says he expects another group to try to convene a similar event next year in Charlotte, but that he believes Christians nationwide can learn from the victory this year.

"We Christians at churches around the city of Charlotte are rejoicing over what God has done -- and we've found out that it's true that when the church of Jesus Christ arrives at the gates of hell, the gates of hell cannot prevail against it," Benham says. "And our hope is that this will provide an avenue for churches that are dealing with this issue in other cities to do the very same thing."

During the 2005 event police removed Christians from the area after complaining about explicit jokes and dances performed in front of children.

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DW, it's great to see this victory. This is something we as Christians should do. I pray that all other such events gets cancelled as well. It's good to read good news.

AMEN sister!!

'Ex-gay' group booted from conference ;D

School counselors objected to materials at exhibit
Posted: April 4, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A group that believes people with same-sex attractions can abandon homosexuality was evicted from the Virginia Schools Counselors Association annual convention.

PFOX, Parents and Friends of Ex-gays and Gays, said school counselors at the event in Richmond, Va., last week objected to some of its materials and insisted the group leave.

Blogger Warren Throckmorton said PFOX was registered officially as an exhibitor at the conference, held at the Holiday Inn Select Thursday and Friday.

But the counselors association's current president, Tammy Davis, and past-president, Carol Kaffenberger, requested to meet PFOX Director Regina Griggs and insisted the group and its members had to leave.

Griggs said that after some discussion, the school counselors said two of PFOX's brochures were OK, one on bullying and another on teens. But the group, nevertheless, was told to leave because offering only two brochures would not be worth their time.

At that point, the hotel staff intervened and demanded the PFOX people leave, Throckmorton said.

One of the staff began to dismantle the table and police were called in.

PFOX members said they were willing to remove anything deemed offensive but were ushered out anyway.

One of the books the counselors didn't like was a title by leading reparative-therapy researcher Joseph Nicolosi. Another was a story of a transgendered person who warns against sex-change surgery.

Last year, the National Parent-Teacher Association refused PFOX's request to exhibit at its annual convention while welcoming a pro-homosexual activist organization – even inviting it to present a workshop.

PFOX had its application to exhibit rejected because it supports former homosexuals. The National PTA, however, sought the attendance of Parents, Families and Friends of Gays, a pro-homosexual advocacy group that promotes in same-sex marriage.

The National PTA also has allowed "It's Elementary," the homosexual-affirming video for schoolchildren, to exhibit at its conference for the previous three years.

Also last year, PFOX won a decision against the Montgomery County School Board in Maryland, halting the implementation of a sex-education curriculum that would have promoted gay religious organizations over ex-gay ministries and traditional religions.

The judge, in writing his decision, criticized the curriculum for engaging in "viewpoint discrimination" by excluding ex-gay material. The school board also had approved materials published by homosexual advocacy groups that positively portray homosexuality while making negative references to ex-gays.

"The National PTA is discriminating against a class of students and that is just wrong," Griggs said at the time.