The group of a dozen or so young street preachers who have been making a habit of preaching the joys of salvation from a street corner in the heart of San Francisco's Castro district for months had a rude shock last night.
After having their right to marry stripped away from them by Prop 8, the Friday night crowd was in no mood to have bigotry preached to them from the middle of their own neighborhood. A large crowd of Castro residents and visitors gathered to demand that the Christian group leave. Every available police car in the district and some from outside of it were dispatched to deal with the resulting melee.
It took a squad of 15 or 20 police officers with batons at the ready to escort the group of preachers several blocks to their cars, while the crowd dogged their heels every step of the way, chanting "Bigots out of our neighborhood" and "Don't come back".
Check out the video HERE. It is well worth the watch.