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PROTEST ANTI-GAY ANTI-CHOICE RADICAL FUNDAMENTALIST FASCISTS ON STEPS OF SF CITY HALL

by sinnerman (sf [at] worldcantwait.org)
BattleCry comes to SF to politically assault cherished fundamental values & rights, and to carve away at the separation of church & state...because it was there that the ‘blasphemy’ of same sex marriage was allowed. Their return to City Hall is in defiance of the SF Board of Supervisors’ resolution last March, which condemned BattleCry’s anti-woman, anti-gay message as an agenda of hatred & intolerance. Join the World Can’t Wait - Drive Out The Bush Regime!, Bay Area Coalition for Reproductive Rights (BACORR), Not In Our Name (Bay Area) and other progressive organizations to show the world that BattleCry’s intolerance is resisted in SF. Everyone is welcome - of all creeds, faiths, and communities - who want to stand up and say; “Religion is one thing, but Theocracy is another - the Christian Right is Wrong!”
Friday, March 9, San Francisco City Hall on the steps facing Civic Center Plaza
12:00 - 2:00 PM Permitted protest, rally and press conference
3:00 - 5:00 PM Counter-protest: We Will Not Tolerate Intolerance!

For more information or to request press interviews with event spokespeople,
call the World Can’t Wait (415) 864-5153 or email: sf [at] worldcantwait.org
http://sfbaycantwait.org

A BattleCry stadium revival subjects 25,000 teenagers to hours of sermons and Christian rock surrounded by militaristic decor (hummers, dog tags and fatigues, Navy Seals complete with automatic weapons). BattleCry indoctrinates teens against the evils of secular music, divorce, abortion, homosexuality, disobedience to authority.

BattleCry is no innocent teenage prayer group. BattleCry’s extreme politics are violent and reactionary. BattleCry founder and frontman Ron Luce works directly with Pat Robertson (who blamed 911 on feminists, homosexuals, pagans, abortionists, etc.), Franklin Graham, and Jerry Falwell. The Texas-based BattleCry is a multi-million dollar operation that preaches unthinking obedience to government and calls for this country to be run as a theocracy.

That American theocracy would be governed by a literalist interpretation of the Christian Bible replacing the secular rule of law in every sphere of life. And Luce promotes the vision that a fundamentalist Christian America should rule the world.

Why iT’S wrong to not denounce BattleCry:
If we in the Bay Area don’t confront the Christian Right with energetic protest and repudiation, if we allow BattleCry’s message of violence and bigotry to broadcast unprotested from the heart of San Francisco - what are we saying to justice-loving people in Alabama, Idaho, Texas or to the victims of intolerance past, present and future anywhere else in the country or the world? “That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn - or be forced - to accept... Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.“
-from ’The Call’ to
Drive Out The Bush Regime

BATTLECRY INFORMATION KIT

BATTLECRY FACT SHEET
http://www.sfbaycantwait.org/Flyers/2006BattleCryFactSheet.doc

BATTLECRY PROTEST FLYER
http://sfbaycantwait.org/Flyers/battlecryprotestflyer.pdf

BATTLECRY PRESS RELEASE
http://www.sfbaycantwait.org/Flyers/BattleCry.doc

SF Board or Supervisors resolution against BattleCry
http://sfbaycantwait.org/Flyers/RESOLUTION___Battlecry_032106%201%20%5b2%5d.doc
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