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Religious Leaders Come Out Against Gays In Florida


Hoping to win hearts, minds and votes for their conservative cause, some Floridian preachers gathered in Miami yesterday to protest for Amendment 2, which will reinforce the state’s gay marriage ban:

A handful of church leaders gathered Tuesday outside the Miami-Dade County Courthouse in a show of solidarity for Amendment 2, saying it is needed to save the institution of marriage.

”We’re here united to define marriage as one man and one woman,” said Mark Gonzales, a Texas pastor and founder of Es Tiempo De Votar 2008, a nonpartisan group aimed at boosting voter turnout among Hispanics nationwide.

“We’re here to define marriage as it was instituted by God.”

Though gay marriage is already illegal in Florida, the amendment, if passed, would be tacked onto the Florida Constitution, making it difficult for a judge to overturn.

Despite the decidedly civic air of their protest, the religious leaders insist they’re not being “political.”

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By:           Andrew Belonksy
On:           Oct 3, 2008
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No. 1 · Chuck

How sad for them. I was in Miami yesterday and while these hate mongers were spewing their middle age nonsense, where were us gays?

We were on Haulover Beach and at the new Barneys in Aventura. I’ve been to the Miami Dade Courthouse and it’s a modernist nightmare. Not nearly as fun as our happy, happening group of hotties at the beach and participating in great fashion.

Who is more mainstream now? I think we are. Leave your hate at the door please, when the Baby Boomers FINALLY die out, no one will have any patience for hate mongering.

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No. 2 · Chuck

P.S. I seriously doubt that any of these pathetic “leaders” would get as much approval and sucking up to at Bloomingdales as we hot, heppening people do. They would be stared down to humiliation by the true gatekeepers of Society, the counterpeople at Bloomies! Sad people that they are, I guess they feel stylish going to Kohls and Belk. Sad. If they weren’t so ugly, maybe they might not have been rejected at that inevitable gay bar in the ’70s, which prompted them to get back at the community with this silliness.

You know what they say about bullies, they have the most to hide and they are trying to compensate.

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