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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuiet Dignity of Little Girl Facing a Ranting Bigoted Preacher
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/rainbow-flag-girl-zea_n_7702856.htmlsnip:
Zea, a 7-year-old first grader, stood firm in the face of hate over the weekend at a celebration of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. When a preacher began ranting at her through a microphone, little Zea quietly waved her rainbow flag and never backed down.
Kind of reminds of the guy who stood in front of that tank back in China in 1989.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)he never says anything about gay people... never calls anyone anything... tells the little girl to look to Jesus. was there more to see?
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Darb
(2,807 posts)Doesn't take much intuition to get the drift. And yelling at a little girl about anything on the street, one that you probably do not know, is the epitome of dickness.
Are you saying what you saw was ok behavior? Because it was definitely not.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)and the little girl walks up to him... should he have looked away from her? maybe. other than that, what I saw was completely acceptable (well, I don't care for the amplified voice bit)... there are plenty of christians who believe that hell is a literal place and that it is where you go if you don't accept Jesus as your savior and he and his partner would seem to fall into that category.
maybe he is a bigot... maybe he's just preaching what millions upon millions of christians believe... that without christ, you have no hope of salvation.
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Darb
(2,807 posts)He should concentrate on someone that can kick his arrogant ass if he is so "devoted" to his fantasy. Not yelling at a little girl. Pull that shit with me and there is a different ending entirely.
Caretha
(2,737 posts)And definitely an adult without a single functioning brain cell.
Do tell us, what world do you live in that that is ever okay???? Answer if you friggin' dare!
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)i live in a world where words are always ok... even shouting them. i am not afraid of words. i am not afraid of people shouting them... even at my kids. my kids would simply laugh that off... even my eight year old. you walk up to a guy with a microphone yelling about this or that on the street, don't expect him to pipe down for you. but you can be afraid if you want. you can do your best to think that he shouldn't have the right to be there or be doing what he is doing. it's ok... really... it is.
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Caretha
(2,737 posts)is that you believe abusing children is okay.
Somehow I think you missed Jesus' message.
BTW, I never in your wildest dreams said that he didn't have the right to be there. Leaning down and shouting at a child is abuse. If you think that is okay....you believe in abusing children.
mac56
(17,567 posts)But, do, keep defending him.
randys1
(16,286 posts)preacher is being defended here
mac56
(17,567 posts)And more. I got tired of reading the rest of his comments.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Internet tough guys are almost as bemusing as faith-based skeptics pretending to posses absolute knowledge of their docile and stolid reactions to something they'll allege happened to them before
That's the great thing about the internet... we pretend we know what we'd laugh off ans accept on faith, our pretense.
Orrex
(63,209 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)He's bending down and yelling his brain wash propaganda, right at the child
Hard to miss
Can't imagine why anyone would defend this sick bully?
irisblue
(32,973 posts)that guy is wrong.
we can do it
(12,184 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)at a 7-year-old is always appropriate. Are you fucking kidding me?????? If her parents wanted her to "look to Jesus" then that's up to them and certainly not up to a complete stranger getting in her face and screaming.
This place is unbelievable sometimes. Screaming at a child is now OK.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)but people see what they want to see...
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Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)that he didn't bend down, look straight at her, and SCREAM at her? Really? That what you're telling me? Don't bother to answer, I won't see it. I make it a policy not to address people who think it's perfectly OK to abuse children.
Buh bye.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Only Jesus Saves. No Jesus? Welcome to hell, sinner!
A little yelling into the face of a child is for the child's own salvation!
That millions and millions believe that must make it true...kind of like Fox and their ratings.
AnnetteJacobs
(142 posts)"Oh, and we're a truly loving, caring community by the way. (singing) They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love..."
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)"And our hate of thee".
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)She's a tiny child.
randys1
(16,286 posts)in the sense of violence, but many who would support him and believe like him are not.
These are deeply disturbed people, and I am talking about the ENTIRE teaparty, BTW
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Who got in whose face?
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)neither will her near and dear friends and famiy and to a lesser extendt, the rest of the public seeing this exchange. It seriously does not endear religion to many of our youngsters...and the dying demographics of church attendance proves this. Kids are turned off by fire, brimstone, intolerance.
randys1
(16,286 posts)or practically nobody does.
The answer is clear to me
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)about racism or whatever, but once in a while I quietly say something everybody can agree with.
wait
Maybe not everybody
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)See post 26.
Who says that to a kid?
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Anyone who allows their children to walk up to crazy people to prove a point needs their head examined. Last I checked the street preacher has a right to profess his hate as much as the LBGT have a right celebrating their pride.
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
-Stephen Fry
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I liked that and the determined look on her face.
Botany
(70,504 posts)n/t
Renew Deal
(81,858 posts)The one where Michael is setting up his dating profile.
Botany
(70,504 posts)..... good thing I wasn't there when that a-hole was giving the little
girl his hate.
Renew Deal
(81,858 posts)But we might not have this iconic image if things turned out differently.
irisblue
(32,973 posts)since 1972 .
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)for decking that asshole. How DARE he scream at that child! Grrrrrr!!!!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Temptation.
Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)of the picture of that little girl who had to go through taunting and jeering from racists to attend school. She had an expression of composure that I consider heroic.
Glad to see that same spirit carries on to this generation.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)kairos12
(12,860 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)I've always been drawn to his artwork.
Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)The picture of the real thing is very powerful.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)The good ole gals sneering behind her back. Some things never change.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)But I think the other photograph was the one that was emblazoned in my memory.
Number23
(24,544 posts)Her little briefcase. With her freshly pressed dress and having to be escorted to school by cops.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Love the look of pure, steely determinaton on her face, too.
allan01
(1,950 posts)tiptonic
(765 posts)He kinda looks like one of the duggar boys to me.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)Most children her age would have turned and run away. I even know adults who would have turned away. She stood her ground and quietly looked on. Amazing.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)fasttense
(17,301 posts)packman
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Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)even the boyfriend may be converted.
(mutatis mutandis the same can be said for one of the girls.)
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)It's really not that hard to figure out that in general, people are turned off by hate and bigotry.
niyad
(113,302 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)And good for the parent(s) that have raised this child to understand and be strong!
Orrex
(63,209 posts)And the more he screams, the smaller he gets.
demmiblue
(36,850 posts)Vinca
(50,270 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)for the information challenged:
This was at an arts and music festival. Let me repeat that more loudly this time for the stupid and the stubborn:
THIS WAS AT AN ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL.
If bringing your child to an arts and music festival is now considered "exploiting" ones' child, conservatives ( and make no mistake, there are some on this thread ritecheer )have officially lost their minds.
This grown, maladjusted, narcissistic bully - who uses Jayzuss as his personal sledgehammer - showed up at an ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL TO RUIN THE DAY FOR PEOPLE INTO THE ARTS, who all must certainly be godless heathens.
Prior to this BULLY's encounter with our young heroine, he was screaming very vile and nasty things, and only chilled the content of his words for the camera.
He was escorted away by security.
Zea stood up to him because he was screaming vile and nasty things at an ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL PARADE. Suppose a bunch of gay people showed up at a church social and started screaming vile things and yelling at Christian little girls? Would the Christians not go fucking ballistic?
To those who condone this abusive preacher's behavior: a big fat, rainbow-colored FUCK YOU.
Just checked in to say this. Love all of you. Back to work.
Edit to add: Hyeer in Tinnissie, all the Christians are cheering for the guy. Because they believe being Christ like ( the Holy Comforter lol) is screaming and ranting and raging. That's the only Jayzuss they know. One moar friggin edit: not ALL the Christians, just the ones who comment on social media.
Show kindness or mercy or gentleness toward children or anyone? GOD HATES YOU AND YOU WILL BURN IN HELL!!!!!!
Lovely religion they believe here.