Homophobic Harassment During Gay Pride

My friend and I were leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis, MN (6/27/09) and came across a group of kids who asked my friend if he was gay. When he answered "yes", they proceeded to harass him and me with verbal threats and even throwing rocks at my friend at one point. Sad...

***NOTE*** The Minneapolis Police Department has contacted me to let me know that the two guys in the video who look like police officers are NOT police officers and were in fact private security for the apartment building we were walking next to.

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• homophobic
• harassment
• gay

[Ladislavcvetko]

Wow..what a bunch of jerks 

[MyMartinez93]

Somebody needs to grab all of this Kids and slapp some manners and respect into them. Disrespectful lil Shits!!. (by the way I am not gay I am a straight male.,and if I ever caught one of my kids treating any human being this way. you better believe they would be getting a serious Ass Woopin.) It is up to us as Parents and Adults to teach our Children Right from Wrong,and treat other people with respect regardless of Race or Sexual preference.

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

Quotes from Saint John Chrysostom on homosexuality below (1-10):

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

1 Oh, you who are more senseless than irrational creatures, and more shameless than dogs! For in no case does such intercourse take place with them, but nature acknowledges her own limits. But you have dishonored our race even below things irrational…These Saint Paul also puts out of all means of defending themselves by charging them not only that they had the means of gratification, and left that which they had, and went after another,… cont

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

2 but having dishonored that which was natural, they ran after that which was contrary to nature. But that which is contrary to nature has in it an irksomeness and displeasingness, so they could not even allege pleasure…. And what is more detestable than a man who has pandered himself, or what more execrable? Oh, what madness! Oh, what distraction!...but their life too was diabolical… cont

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

3 Saint Paul put the world and man's understanding before them, telling them that, by the judgment afforded them by God, they might through the things which are seen, have been led as by the hand to the Creator, and then, by not willing to do so, they remained inexcusable… But they would not, so they are quite out of the pale of pardon…For there is not, there surely is not, a more grievous evil than this insolent dealing. cont

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

4 For if when discoursing about fornication Saint Paul said that “Every sin which a man does is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body,” what shall we say of this madness, which is so much worse than fornication as cannot even be expressed?...And that you may learn what the real force of this is, if any one were to come and assure you that he would make you a dog instead of being a man, would you not flee from him as a plague? cont

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

5 But, lo! You have not made yourself a dog out of a man, but an animal more disgraceful than this. But if you say, where is this intensity of lust from? It was from the desertion of God. And where is the desertion of God from? From the lawlessness of those who left Him “males with males working out that which is unseemly.” They made a business of the sin, & not only a business, but even one zealously followed up. And Saint Paul called it not lust, but that which is unseemly, & that properly.

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

6 I say the homosexuals are even worse than murderers, since to die is better than to live under such insolence. For the murderer dissevers the soul from the body, but this man ruins the soul with the body. And name what sin you will, none you mention will equal this lawlessness. And if they who suffer such things perceived them, they would accept 10,000 deaths so they might not suffer this evil. cont

[MARTYRofAGRAPHA]

7 And an even more disgraceful thing than these men is when the women seek after these intercourses, who ought to have more sense of shame than men…But there is nothing more worthless than a man who has pandered himself. For not only the soul, but also the body of one who has been so treated is disgraced, deserving to be driven out everywhere. How many hells shall be enough for such a man?...“And receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting of their error.” cont