{"id":854,"date":"2008-11-22T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=854"},"modified":"2008-11-18T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:38:01","slug":"culture-news-gay-anarchist-action-hits-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Culture News: Gay anarchist ‘action’ hits church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gay anarchist ‘action’ hits church<\/strong>
\nGay anarchist group infiltrates, protests outside Eaton County church<\/em>
\nTuesday, November 11,2008<\/a>
\nby Nathan Harris<\/p>\n

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A gay anarchist group infiltrated the Mt. Hope Church in Eaton County Sunday morning, disrupting a service by pulling a fire alarm, dropping leaflets and yelling at parishioners, a pastor said.<\/p>\n

The group, Bash Back, was simultaneously picketing outside the church, beating on buckets and using a megaphone to shout “Jesus was a homo”\u009d and other slogans as confused churchgoers continued to enter the building.<\/p>\n

Members of Bash Back issued a press release Tuesday saying that it targeted Mt. Hope, a church that claims a flock of around 5,000, because it is “complicit in the repression of queers in Michigan and beyond.”<\/p>\n

According to the Myspace.com page of the Lansing chapter, the network initially sprung up with the intent of increasing homosexual visibility within the anarchist community.<\/p>\n

The “action”\u009d began early Sunday morning at the Northstar Center on Lathrop Street in Lansing where a group of around 20 protesters gathered. Pink bandanas, signs, a rainbow-colored “Bash Back!”\u009d flag and a pink, wooden cross were distributed among about half the group “\u201d the “outside team.”\u009d The rest “\u201d “inside team”\u009d “\u201d were dressed in conservative clothes and carried Bibles and stacks of fliers, intending to blend in to the church”\u02dcs 11:30 a.m. “contemporary-laid back service.”\u009d<\/p>\n

City Pulse was alerted to the Bash Back event through a press release and had no prior knowledge of where the “action”\u009d would take place or what it would entail.<\/p>\n

“We’re having an action today,”\u009d one of the organizers told this reporter at the Northstar Center. “You’re in for a treat.”\u009d [Continue Reading…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gay anarchist ‘action’ hits church Gay anarchist group infiltrates, protests outside Eaton County church Tuesday, November 11,2008 by Nathan Harris =============================== A gay anarchist group infiltrated the Mt. Hope Church in Eaton County Sunday morning, disrupting a service by pulling a fire alarm, dropping leaflets and yelling at parishioners, a pastor said. The group, Bash … Continue reading Culture News: Gay anarchist ‘action’ hits church<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-news","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}