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Christian Bigots Rallying for "Traditional Marriage" meet with counter protesters

by Dallas B
50 protestors confront Christian bigots at Fresno City Hall.
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A day after 3500 marriage equallity supporters rallied at Fresno City Hall Conservative Fresno area churces rally for "traditional marriage". About 800 fundamentalist bigots including local politicians rallying at Fresno City Hall are confronted by about 50 equallity supporters. At one point about 20 of the counter protestors crossed the street to directly confront the bigots. So called Christian monitors pushed, head butted and elbowed equallity supporters to try to get them back across the street. One person in the crowd yelled at one of the monitors "I have an elbow to Mother fucker and if you push me one more time I'll use it". At that point he and the other monitors backed off a little. Towards the end of the rally as people were leaving 4 motorcyclists rode within a few feet of the equallity supporters as they stood in a prayer circle and reved their engines like they were going to drive through the crowd. At this point several protestors stood and one sat down in front of their bikes. Fresno Police officers came over and made the motorcyclists leave.
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by Dallas B
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by Dallas B
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by Dallas B
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The guys in the white shirts and ties are the monitors who where pushing the marriage equallity supporters pryor to this photo.
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