Protest against religious bigotry By HellArcanine Watch

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So, for those who don't know or weren't there…

Today, in the beautiful city of Oxford, AKA City of Dreaming Spires, there was a religious extremist group of protestants, essentially ultra-fundamentalist "christians" (in quotes because they were hateful, vile creatures which, to me, isn't very christian at all), spreading a vile message of hate. They used speaker systems to spread their messages of "Gaysex is evil", "If you don't repent you'll be in Hell for ever", "Men have a godgiven authority over women", and "God will take blood vengeance for abortion", amongst others.

They were shouting at people, telling them they were all murderers and going for hell, for using contraception or having an abortion despite having been pregnant due to rape when they were aged 13… That kind of thing. They were also coming out with gems such as "Roman Catholics aren't Christian".

Basically, we decided we wouldn't take this crap.

We would not have this kind of disgusting, homophobic, sexist bigotry in our city.

The result, you can see in this collage. This is by far not complete… There is no way that a few images could possibly summarise accurately and depict genuinely the emotion involved and how fiercely we fought this ridiculous abuse of their freedom of speech.

I tried to take pictures of every placard and capture the moment… I hope I managed.





One of my speeches:

"This man claims he is spreading the truth, and that he is speaking for a religion of love and peace. Let me tell you a truth. He is spreading HATE, when the fact is this: we are all HUMANS!! It doesn't matter if I'm gay, or bi, or other; female or male, black or white…. WE ARE ALL HUMANS!!! And all I want is HUMAN RIGHTS!!! No more, and no less! And these men, who claim to preach in the name of a just Lord, would rid us of that!"





Highlights included:



- A gay man publicly proclaiming his love for "sausages" and inviting everyone else to do the same, resulting in a very vocal chant of "SAUSAGES!!!!", which was eventually joined by a group of French blokes: "Nous adorons les saucissons!!!!"



- Me being publicly spanked by said gay man to "repent for my sins"...



- Preacher: "You will bend your knee to christ!"

Response: "The only person I'll bend down for is my sexual dom!"



- Preacher: "I cry because I see these young girls here and know that they will have sex before marriage!"

Response: "Let them do what they want, let them CHOOSE, but don't take away their rights to be educated about contraception; condoms, the pill!"



- Waving around a massive blown up condom to cheers by the crowd for the use of contraception.



- "Keep your rosaries off my ovaries!"





Thank you for the people who were here today.... Thank you EVERYONE.

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Published : May 16, 2013