PRIDE ALIVE!

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About 20 Wisconsin Marriage Defenders met at Joannes Park in Green Bay, WI, to protest/witness at the 2nd annual sodomite "Pride Alive" family (sic) picnic event.



We recruited heavily from Green Bay area churches, but still 75% of the crowd was from Oshkosh.


Soon after arriving, I heard one of the Pride Alive leaders giving an interview to the Green Bay Press Gazette. He must have been asked who we were because he answered, "Those guys are from Oshkosh, some Baptist church".



While we were glad that they recognized us and associate opposition to sodomy with our group, we were disgusted at the same time that they did not associate anti-sodomy with any group or church from Green Bay, Milwaukee, or elsewhere. We should not have to be rowing this boat alone - especially in other cities.



Another leader of the sodomite event came out to thank us for being there (would to God we were getting thanked by Christians, but apparently most Christians are more effeminate than the queers). He said, "I don't agree with your views, but I support your right to voice them. When you guys come out, we know we've made the big time."



While it's quite an honor to know that the sodomites now use us as a measuring stick and status symbol, it is pathetic that other Wisconsin fundamental Baptist churches are so apathetic, to the point that sodomites connect standing against sodomy all over the state with us alone. We do thank Grace Baptist Church of Appleton, WI and Pastor Randy Graham for having some people stand with us at a couple of our events, including this one, but we will not have to spend a lot of money on thank you cards for anyone else.



We did get to have plenty of conversations and opportunities to give the gospel. We received the expected catcalls, middle fingers, and insults. The news media got some footage of us and our signs. Dick Ives gave a TREMENDOUS interview for the WFRV news. They might only air a clip from it, but Bro. Ives did a SUPERB job of giving the gospel and truth about sodomy with grace and love. Then he witnessed to the reporter at length.



A Spanish speaking man from the Honduras brought his three boys into the park, unaware that the queers were having their picnic. He came out, white as a ghost, with his boys a few minutes later, and although speaking Spanish, we KNEW what he was saying to them about what they had just witnessed. Al Doyle knows enough Spanish to converse and spoke to the man. Once he found out we were in opposition to the queers, he wanted us to explain it to his kids (who spoke English).



Gary Warinner gets kudos for being a bold witness to several people throughout the day. Several, if not all of us, got chances to speak to them on behalf of righteousness and the Lord.



We left before evening, figuring that later we'd encounter more drunks and loudmouths. The action might have gotten hotter, but less fruitful (in the biblical usage of the term).