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LTC Eugene Chu
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Story neglects to mention that the protest was over church sponsoring an AR-15 giveaway and the alt-right "pastor" explicitly calls himself a racist. Pasting excerpt below from one of his sermons

"I’m a racist. I think the races should be kept separate as much as possible. I think you ought to marry your own if you can. Black History Month means communism and Marxism month. Women’s History Month means man-hating and God-hating month. Sodomite History Month is a straight-hating month. American Native Savages Month — they’re gonna make one, too."

https://medium.com/@justinward/the-rights-newest-martyr-a-racist-pastor-who-thinks-blacks-are-cursed-67d51e2945e1
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I dont agree with those statements, must be related to Westbro but he has a Constitutional right to say them....Also who cares if they raffled an AR15 I lived in the Mid -West...every organization raffles them, What were they really trying to prove?
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Capt Gregory Prickett
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OK, let me make sure that I understand this. It is perfectly fine for church groups to go to an abortion provider and yell at the people entering the clinic, but it's not OK for others to do the same to a church. It's OK for people to show up to a mosque, carrying rifles openly, and protest that religion, but it's not ok to picket at a church. It's perfectly fine for a church to harass and bully homosexuals, but don't question their members as they arrive at the church.

Do you want me to go on?
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Capt Gregory Prickett
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SSG (Join to see) - In the video in question, they entered the clinics and refused to leave.

So, based on your statement, you were OK with the BLM protesters on the sidewalk? Or did you have a problem with that?

Churches also are subsidized by being tax-exempt, meaning that the public covers their share of tax costs. Would you be in favor of cutting off the federal subsidies for religion?

And finally, how do expect blacks to react to a preacher that brags about being a racist?
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Capt Gregory Prickett - On the sidewalk ok. as long as they are not blocking ingress/egress. Which it appears they were. Those are the same rules that ably to any Protests they have to keep moving back and forth.
Yelling and screaming at children...Hell no. What they did was prove the Preacher right in what he had been saying
No I do not support cutting tax-exemptions. That is an old tired scare tactic that comes up all the time. especially when they don't like what is being said in the pulpit. Churches also do the things that the government should really not be dealing with. The public does not cover the "share" of there costs. The Federal Government does not subsidies religion.The people who go to the church also pay taxes. So you want to tax them 2X.
How do I expect them to react? Like civil human beings. Which seems to be beyond the m. Not scaring children with stupid antics.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
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SSG (Join to see) - it's not taxing them twice anymore than a grocery store is taxed twice. After all, the people buying stuff have already paid taxes on their income, haven't they?

And taxing churches is not based on what they say in the pulpit. It's based on the fact that churches are businesses that make money, some of them making enough to buy mansions and private jets for their CEOs.

Finally, what the hell do you think that the "Christian" anti-abortion protesters do to people trying to enter the clinic? Why do they get a pass? Last year there were "1,369 reported violent acts, including 15 instances of assault and battery, 13 burglaries, 14 counts of stalking and over a thousand episodes of illegal trespassing." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/violence-against-abortion-clinics-like-planned-parenthood-hit-a-record-high-last-year-doctors-say-its-getting-worse/

I've asked for you to condemn those actions by Christians several times. Why do you have a difficult time doing so?
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Capt Gregory Prickett - If you look up to you other questions above I already answered you.
"If they are in the building yes on the street no...but HUFFPO weak. Violence I do not support...Bombing, Stalking Ect....If they are calling protests out side the clinic Harassment got a big 1st Amendment for ya"
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Capt Gregory Prickett
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It's real hard for me to have sympathy for a church when the pastor (John Koletas) has publicly stated that blacks are cursed by god, even has a sermon to that effect, and has, in one of his sermons:

"I’m a racist. I think the races should be kept separate as much as possible. I think you ought to marry your own if you can. Black History Month means communism and Marxism month. Women’s History Month means man-hating and God-hating month. Sodomite History Month is a straight-hating month. American Native Savages Month — they’re gonna make one, too."

Police were present, and it wasn't out of control. What you saw is the Buzzfeed/Judicial Watch edited version designed as a dog whistle to rile up those predisposed to dislike BLM and so on.
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You don't have to sympathize but you do have to recognize his right to say stupid thing.
I recognize BLM, a Self-Professed Marxist Organization, has the right to say stupid things
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Capt Gregory Prickett
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SSG (Join to see) - Please show me where BLM has professed to be a marxist organization. I'm not talking about some of the founders, I'm talking about the organization itself.

What if I claimed that all Baptist Churches were racist, with white supremacist views that wanted to punish blacks? I mean, after all, I have a video of Pastor Koletas saying that blacks are cursed by god, isn't that good enough?

You're painting the Grace Baptist Church as innocent martyrs, it isn't. You're painting BLM as being out of control, yet don't criticize Christian anti-abortion protesters who do the exact same thing. Why is that?
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Capt Gregory Prickett - Hmm the lets see.. I am talking about a specific article. I am trying to not run down a rabbit hole. Stay on point. You want to talk about something else? Post something else in a new thread
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Capt Gregory Prickett
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SSG (Join to see) - No, we can talk about it here.
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