Yeah, Right, Whatever

At least that's what I would call it if the San Fran Board of Supervisors goes out of their way to officially condemn your rally... your evangelical teen rally.

More than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth landed Friday in San Francisco for a two-day rally at AT&T Park against "the virtue terrorism" of popular culture, and they were greeted by an official city condemnation and a clutch of protesters who said their event amounted to a "fascist mega-pep rally."

Oh, yeah... fascism is exactly what I think when I think of a bunch of Christian teens getting together...

Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco,... told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, "they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco."

Wow... that's ...tolerant, isn't it? I wonder what is so horrible about these kids, anyway... this is their mission statement:

To provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take His life-giving message to the ends of the earth!

Well, yeah... I can see how that could be construed as fascist by... by... well, by someone, I'm sure...

Here's more from their brainwasher founder/organizer:

Luce didn't flinch in the face of the counterprotest. The author, host of the "Acquire the Fire TV" cable television program and a President Bush appointee to a federal anti-drug-abuse commission, wants teens to find Bible-based solutions for the spread of sexually transmitted disease, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and suicide.

The villains, Luce said, range from the promiscuity and "sexualization" of young people on MTV and the popular online meeting hub MySpace.com to a corporate culture that spends millions trying to woo the under-21 crowd. Battle Cry will try to bring them back to God through two days of religious rockers, speakers and the debut of what Luce called a Christian alternative to My Space.com.

"This is more than a spiritual war," Luce said. "It's a culture war." Military metaphors abound in Luce's descriptions of the struggle. He tells young people of how "an enemy has launched a brutal attack on them." At a pre-Battle Cry rally Friday afternoon on the steps of City Hall, Luce told his mostly teenage audience that "terrorists of a different kind" -- advertisers -- were targeting them and that they were "caught in the middle of the battle."

Scary, ain't it? Kids, ready to tell the world that they don't want what the world has to offer. Yeah... I can see how some people might find that offensive... those trying to promote what the world has to offer. Those who are trying to convince everyone (especially themselves, it seems) that anything goes, and no one should think otherwise. But, wait... let's see what the City Supervisors had to add.

"There is a real intolerancy to homosexuality in a lot of these organizations," said Peter Cobb, an organizer with Not In Our Name.

Earlier this week, the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution condemning the "act of provocation" by what it termed an "anti-gay," "anti-choice" organization that aimed to "negatively influence the politics of America's most tolerant and progressive city."

..."Even if it is done by a Barnum & Bailey crowd with a tent and some snake oil, I think we need to pay attention to it," said Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who authored the condemnation resolution. "We should not fall asleep at the wheel."

This is tolerance? Wow... I hate to see... intolerance... from these people.

But, they're right, you know. Homosexuality is pretty much a big bad no-no, according to the Bible. Killing innocents is quite verboten, as well. The list of "don't dos" is pretty long. I bet these kids even had the nerve to wear silver rings.

I think that's the problem. In San Francisco, the epitome of almost everything that is going wrong in pop culture today, to have a bunch of teenagers gather and proudly say, "we want something more... we want something better than what you can offer us," is probably more than these "enlightened ones" can possibly handle. These kids... the future of our country, are standing in love (not hatred or disrespect) and saying "we're not going to buy into your world view."

I wonder if it makes any of them think, "what if those kids are right?"