« Back Home Again | Main | What Is Up With That? »

Love Won Out Billboards Are Vandalized In St. Louis

March 22, 2006

I was reading the paper a while back and saw an article on a group of roadside billboards that were vandalized. This of course immediately caught my eye, and even more so when I saw what the billboards were about. The billboard was bearing a photograph of an African-Amercian ex-gay man and it quoted him saying "I Questioned Homosexuality: Change is Possible". This is only one of many of the billboards that were vandalized in attacks against the Love Won Out conferences that were offered in St. Louis on February 25th.

Exodus International placed these billboards in the St. Louis area in conjunction with the upcoming conference presented by Focus on the Family which is designed to offer help for people who struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions.

Gay activists are protesting this event, they have bombarded the church hosting the even with eggs, and now they are resorting to vandalizing billboards. All of this coming from a large group of people who are crying out for tolerance. It seems the people who desire tolerance are not willing to give it themselves.

I honestly don't see why it is so offensive to help people who honestly want to get out of homosexuality. Believe it or not, there are people in the world who are struggling with these things and their desire in life is to get rid of these feelings. Do people not have a right to get out of homosexuality once they are in it? It seems like people who are ex-homosexuals are abused and tolerated even less than those who were never a part of it in the first place.

It is a sad day when the homosexual community resorts to breaking the law and vandalism to protest someone's free choice, especially when they claim to be fighting for free choice themselves. I think this is a good example of the real face of gay activism. Many of them are not the hurt, scared, innocent minority of social outcasts that they make themselves out to be. If this was all about personal choice and sexual diversity then these Love Won Out conferences wouldn't be a problem, but the issue is not about personal choice, it goes far deeper than that. The attempt to make their personal choice socially acceptable is quickly becoming a violation of others personal choice, and the tolerance they seek is clouded by the intolerance they give.

Lets face it. There are men and women out there in the world who are unsatisfied with their lives and no longer want to be a part of homosexuality. They have a right to change and that isn't an offensive thing, that is life. It isn't wise to resort to childish behavior and vandalism to try and prove a point, when the only message you are sending to the world is your own intolerance. The gay rights activists have just earned some more socially negative points in my book.

Comments

Posted by: Timothy R. Butler
March 22, 2006 11:59 PM

The good part of the story is that for the most part, there wasn't much of a problem after the egging. First Free, our sister church that hosted the event, provided food and portapotties (plus one of their pastors stood outside to talk to anyone interested in dialogue) to the protesters on the conference day and received some nice letters of thanks from reasonable protesters in the days afterward.

Posted by: Michael Morgan
March 23, 2006 04:51 PM

Get ready, it will only get worse. Vandalism is only the beginning. Soon and I think very soon our pastors will be arested for calling homosexuality what it is. That would be sin.

Posted by: Erin
March 28, 2006 08:57 PM

Have you heard about soulforce? They are doing "peaceful protests" on our campus in a few weeks. They are a group that is comprised of homosexuals and bisexuals in the name of Christ. Yes you read that right. We are having a huge debate and the students have really been reading up in order to be prepared. I'll keep ya'll posted.

Posted by: Holly Hobbie
March 29, 2006 05:15 PM

This behavior dosen't supprise me one bit. sickens me but dosen't supprise me. I agree that its only going to get worse.

What really breaks my heart are the "Christians " that I have come across that refuse to listen too what the bible says about homosexuality and then get upset when I remind them how God destroyed the city of Sodom and Gamorrah (don't think I spelled that right ooops ) because of their wicked ways and perverted practices of homosexuality.

Boy are they going to be supprised when God comes back and they find out how much God hates the sin of homosexuality .

It breaks my heart... I would love to see where in the older versions of the bible it says homosexuality is okay !.