Intolerance of the Tolerant Strikes Again

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Because you’ll seldom hear anything negative about homosexuality or the homosexual movement from the “mainstream” media (certainly not from the national MSM), Newsbusters brings us word of some vicious behavior by homosexual activists perpetrated on some people speaking out for marriage in Warwick, Rhode Island on July 28.

Several people from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, also known as the American TFP, are touring a number of northeastern states in defense of marriage and had made a stop in Warwick when they were attacked by several homosexual activists.

A small amount of coverage was provided by a local media outlet.

From the Providence Journal:

The women, who apparently objected to their message, flung a soda bottle at the men and vowed to return.

And back they were, about 15 minutes later, hurling at the men a mélange of food ingredients and drinks and a full repertoire of profanities, Nelson said.

One of the women swashed a protester with pepper spray.

Maria Armental made it sound like no big deal, finishing her report by stating that no one was hurt and no arrests had been made.

As a former law enforcement official who has had mace on myself (back before the days of pepper spray), I can tell you that it darn well hurts. And throwing a soda bottle at someone could constitute attempted assault.

A couple of days later, Kate Branson at the Providence Journal reported that arrests had been made, along with additional details of the assaults:

The men told the police that women driving in a Honda Civic stopped near the median where the men carried a sign and banner, then hurled a bottle at the men once the light turned green.

The car pulled away. “We’ll be back!” the men said one of the car’s occupants yelled.

The men saw the car park nearby, according to the police report, and one told the police the women then “made a beeline to us, shouting at us with bottles in their hands.”

Thursday evening, the police arrested four women: Melissa Migliaccio, 22, of 506 Phenix Ave. in Cranston; Amanda L. Zangrilli, 23, of 54 Curson St., No. 4, in West Warwick; Kristen A. Scungio, 19, also of the Curson Street address; and a 17-year-old female from Pontiac Street in Warwick, whom the police have not named because she is a juvenile.

All are charged with at least one charge of battery or simple assault, and with disorderly conduct. The 17-year-old faces a more serious charge as well — felony assault with a dangerous weapon or substance, according to the police.

According to a press release from the group, two of the assailants wrestled with their photographer and punched the photographer in the face.

Now imagine just for a moment that some counterfeit marriage activists had been protesting on the sidewalk and some authentic marriage activists had perpetrated these assaults. What could we expect the media reaction to be?

All over CNN for the next several days? Along with ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, and many more?

Fresh calls from homosexual activists in Washington D.C. and elsewhere demanding immediate passage of new “hate crime” laws?

I could get rich making a bet on that.

But since it was homosexual activists perpetrating the assaults? Ah, ho ho. Just a silly prank. Just a childish food-fight. Stupid Christians should have been more tolerant in the first place; what do they expect for showing such intolerance as to speak in favor of genuine marriage?  Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

After all, as outlined in the book “After the Ball” written by two homosexual activists, it’s the “mainstream” media’s job to run interference for the homosexual agenda and make homosexuality look as good as possible.

The facade of niceness has fallen almost completely off the homosexual activist movement in the months since California’s marriage protection amendment, Proposition 8, passed last year.  Leading up to and in the wake of the vote, we saw example after example of the extreme intolerance of the tolerant:  theft; vandalism; calls for violence and murder against the people who voted to protect marriage; attacking an old lady and knocking a sign out of her hand; disrupting church services while yelling profanities, blasphemies and throwing condoms; burning a holy text on a church doorstep; calling black people “niggers” for having voted overwhelmingly to protect marriage; and more.

Once more we receive a lesson in the intolerance of the tolerant. Those who usually howl the loudest for “tolerance” are usually the ones least likely to render it.

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