Apparently a group of kooks shows up in San Francisco's Castro district (a.k.a. downtown Gaytown) every Friday night to deliver a message of hope and love: God hates queers and plans to send them all to hell. Last Friday, with emotions raw from the Proposition 8 fight, the little group of kooks bumped into an angry bunch of gays who basically ran them out of the Castro. Good, it's about time.
Nero supposedly had Christian pyromaniacs doused in tar and set aflame as punishment for setting fires during the great fire of Rome in 64 A.D. (or so claims Tacitus in a now much doubted passage in "Annals"). Christians have milked this tale for martyrs beyond counting, including St. Peter and St. Paul (remember "Quo Vadis" and all that?). Nowadays serious historians doubt that any of this happened, but the need to be a martyr (known in secular precincts as "professional victimhood") remains strong among certain kinds of Christians--and our little group of Castro kooks is queuing up for martyrdom as word of their escapade spreads among the faithful.
The kooks were driven off with taunts of "Shame on You" and loud whistle blowing. Sadly, none of the gays had any banana cream pies handy. The kooks are telling lurid stories of suffering threats and terror; visions of Jesus and the Virgin cannot be far behind. Wingnuts galore are warning about "violent gays." The great grasp of unreason tightens.
Watch the fun here
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