March 28th, 2006

Who Could Be For T.V. Violence?

To hear Brit Hume tell it on today's Grapevine, this was a simple rally against television violence by a well-meaning Christian group, and was opposed, for no good reason, by intolerant anti-Christian San Fancisco legislators:

Twenty-five thousand evangelical Christians demonstrated against TV sex and violence in San Francisco this weekend. But that didn't go down well with the city council, which passed a resolution condemning the rally as an "act of provocation" to negatively influence what the council called America's "most tolerant" city.

The group, called "Battle Cry for a Generation," uses the Bible to counter what it calls corrupting influences in the media. But the San Francisco Chronicle reports that about 50 counter-protesters denounced the gathering as a "fascist mega-pep rally." And San Francisco's State Representative Mark Leno called the Christians loud, obnoxious, and disgusting, adding, "they should get out of San Francisco."

What Hume fails to mention, however, is that "Battle Cry for a Generation" indicated, by the invitation that it sent out for the event, that the rally was really going to be an anti-gay demonstration. As the AP reports:

A Battle Cry invitation had made plain the symbolism of gathering at "the very City Hall steps where several months ago, gay marriages were celebrated for all the world to see."

Guess you just forgot to mention that little tidbit, didn't you, Brit?