June 18, 2008
Update On Heart Attack Victim at Yesterday's Gay Marriage Melee
We briefly touched on this yesterday, that someone at City Hall had a heart attack during the celebration cum protest. According to SF Weekly, local AIDS activist Michael Petrelis saw what went down. Apparently, a local troubadour -- who might or might not be named "Joni" or "Francis" or... something -- was singing a song of love to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon just before going into cardiac arrest:
A few minutes after Joni led us in singing "All You Need is Love," and at about the same time Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were exchanging marriage vows, Joni collapse. I was standing a few feet away from him as firefighters began performing CPR.
As he was suffering a heart attack, the Bilerico Project reports on what God's soldiers had the nerve to say:
One of the Christian protesters (pictured at right) was chanting at his body - "Satan Got You!" "What is the Devil whispering in your ear about now?"
"Joni," Petrelis goes on to say, is in the hospital right now, in "guarded condition."
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Oh man, that is a bitch ass thing to say. Even if these guys think homosexuality is sinful, they apparently are not being truthful to their own religion. Jesus always forgave those who sinned. This is a guy who blessed whores for god's sake! Apparently being religious is an excuse for crummy behaviour.
They picketed Clinton's mom's funeral for crying out loud, because of Clinton's AIDS funding. They picket the funerals of dead soldiers, under the absurd logic that the soldiers are somehow carrying out the USA's "homosexual agenda" and thus their deaths are justified.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. They have no shame and no morals.
All my best wishes for our troubadour's full recovery...
"Satan Got You!" thats mean...real mean.
"Satan got you"...how precious. And people wonder why religion is a dying performance art. I think the devil was whispering "karma is a many splendored thing." Rest up, be well.
"Satan got you"
Isn't it God's job to strike down sinning sodomites and those that sympathize with them?
Religion is so confusing.
I hope the ailing minstrel recovers quickly. My thoughts are with him and his loved ones.
Well. It's not like we can expect the fundamentalists to have a passing acquaintance with the Babble.