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Last Sunday, September 26th, 2009 was a successful gathering of Love Rally brothers and sisters. It was not a huge group but we know even if there was only one of us there at the Love Rally that we represent by proxy thousands across our state of Arizona, the United States and the world.
I arrived to find our reliable friends the Reverend Karolyn who is a mentor of Rosa Parks and our good friend and Greens Congressional Candidate William S. Crum (a Vietnam vet suffering from the effects of Agent Orange.
As usual the reverend Karolyn was preaching her message that GOD is Love and that the man who calls himself in Tempe, Az. at The Faithful Word Baptist Church should not be preaching hate and for the deaths of other human beings from the pulpit. Our good friend the retired judge and past counsel for Dr. Martin Luther King in Chicago could not make it today like she did last week as she is ill and celebrating the courageous life she has led for humanity by resting today. We announced to the group that since we are getting no response from Arizona Congressional and elected officials on denouncing the hate and violence being advocated by this man in Tempe, Arizona that we have officially formed a "Love Party" in Arizona and that we need approximately 30,000 signatures to become an official party. Of course, our platform consists of: The avocation of "Love, Peace and Humanity".
Some of the Reverend Karolyn's good friends came by after attending their church to preach that GOD is Love and to give us moral and spiritual strength. They were very beautiful people and we hope to be posting pictures of the event later today. Then, our hearts were greatly warmed by the attendance of our good friend the Reverend Joplin who will be bringing a C.D radio player and music next week.
We apparently, had no counter protesters from
the church congregation of the man who preaches for the death of our president, the suffering of his children and the death penalty for all homosexuals. Then apparently, two people probably from this church delegation which follows the man who prays for the death of our president showed up. They acted as if they had no idea about why our Love Rally was outside preaching that GOD is Love and that the man inside the church should stop preaching hate and advocating violence. Then, they asked where we received our information about where we heard about this reverend saying and preaching these things and we referred them to video footage on the Internet in which the reverend was proudly preaching these things and stating he would not back down on these beliefs to reporters. The two ladies then said they did not believe us and walked straight over to the church of the man who calls himself a minister was preaching hate and advocating violence.
Before they left it was very apparent what they were trying to do, because they were going to all of the members of our Love Rally gathering and were trying to dissuade our brothers and sisters from being there and implying that what the whole world knows that this man who calls himself a minister is preaching: Hate and the avocation of violence toward homosexuals by wishing the death penalty upon them. But, they of course had no effect on us, except to strengthen our resolve in making sure the world knows that GOD is Love and that not religious people and people of the cloth believe and preach hate and advocate violence.
There is also one other interesting incident to note. On every Love Rally we have held outside of this preacher of hate's church, there has been a City of Phoenix bus driver (which is operated by a corporation called Phoenix Metro and operated by firm called Valero) who has been openly hostile to our Love Rally. In our opinion he has purposely driven very close to us as
if trying to hit us while we were standing on the grass in the Public Right of Way. In addition, he drives very slow in front of our Love Rally gathering where we peacefully hold our signs which say: GOD is Love and other peaceful messages. He frowns and puts his thumb down at us as he drives by. We know that he is purposely driving slow to block the view of our Love Rally from people driving by because the other bus drivers are going at a normal speed which is much faster when they go by us. Today, he drove by us slowly again and we smiled and waved at him hoping to change his heart but instead as we held our sign that GOD is Love, he frowned and repeatedly put his thumb down at us while staring at us angrily as he drove by. We know his bus number it is: 6124 and we urge all of you who can to call to the number for the Phoenix Valley Metro to complain that this driver is showing a dangerous hostility towards our group and is sometimes endangering our Love Rally brothers and sisters by apparently using his bus as an apparent weapon by at times driving dangerously close to our Love Rallys and that when he is staring at us and has one hand on the wheel that he is also endangering the people that ride on his bus. We stood in dis-belief that anybody what would put their thumb down at the statement that GOD is Love
. This is what we are dealing with brothers and sisters not only here in Arizona but in other parts of our country and world: Political and Religious extremism which is being encouraged by some unscrupulous religious, political and business leaders.
Again, I would like to thank all of you brothers and sisters were with us in spirit today at Love Rally and who prayed for us. As we sang that Jesus Loves the Little Children and read the poem by Langston Hughes, Let America be America Again we could feel your presence.
GOD is Love,
Leonard Clark
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
founder of : People Against Clergy Who Preach Hate!