Evangelicals pose as Pride Volunteers to trick LGBT people into "converting"
-
Evangelicals pose as Pride Volunteers to trick LGBT people into "converting"
At Twin Cities Pride in Minnesota last month, an Evangelical group called Trinity Works deliberately pretended to be part of the festivities in order to trick people into being harassed about Jesus.
The group set up a corn feed along the parade route where they invited Pridegoers in for food, drink and talking. That’s when they started interrogating people about Jesus and their LGBT identity. Some reports have said that the Trinity Works volunteers intentionally dressed similarly to Pride volunteers, created flyers imitating official Pride materials and even posed as medics in order to talk to people.
At the end of the whole, they proudly posted pictures and statistics on Facebook about how many people they prayed for and how many had “surrendered to Jesus.” They promised to return next year.
Trinity Works held a corn feed at 11th Street and Hennepin Avenue along the Pride parade route. According to OutFront, the support team had to counsel dozens who mistakenly thought it was part of Pride activities. “Pride-goers who went in, assuming it was LGBTQ-friendly, were surrounded by Trinity works people who said they would burn in hell because of their sexual orientation,” OutFront’s Monica Meyer said in a statement. “Our support team counseled more than a dozen people who unknowingly went in and left the corn feed shaken, crying and traumatized.”
The link above is to a piece I wrote about this for another blog, Friendly Atheist. I’m gonna repeat here what I said there: THIS is why LGBT people struggle to trust Christian allies. Because nobody who went into that booth is going to remember the pro-LGBT Christians who attended Twin Cities Pride; they’re going to remember the ones who terrorized them. I’m so sorry for those who had to go through this, especially those with Christian leanings who will forever feel a little less safe.
[[url=http://gaywrites.org/post/91484215812/evangelicals-pose-as-pride-volunteers-to-trick-lgbt]Source]
-
Thanks for that
-
I pretended to be a baptist so I could eat there sunday dinner on the grounds a few times and place pride stickers in their hymnals.
No biggie.
Hello! It looks like you're interested in this conversation, but you don't have an account yet.
Getting fed up of having to scroll through the same posts each visit? When you register for an account, you'll always come back to exactly where you were before, and choose to be notified of new replies (either via email, or push notification). You'll also be able to save bookmarks and upvote posts to show your appreciation to other community members.
With your input, this post could be even better 💗
Register Login