Stupid Evangelist Tricks

The tireless percussionists at World Net Daily are still beating the drum in defense of "The Philadelphia 11" -- group of self-professed "Christians" who tried to harsh the buzz enjoyed by participants of a gay pride festival there.

World Net Daily reports that a "pro-family group" (the AFA) is now in a position to say "I told you so" because they had warned years ago that the state's hate-crimes law, which lists gays as a protected class, might one day be used to prosecute Christians.

(This prediction seems obvious enough to preclude accusations of necromancy among the faithful: In much the same way, one might predict that a law protecting mice might one day be used to target cats.)

Still, thought-crimes are strangely absent from the list of charges leveled against the evangelists: e.g., criminal conspiracy, reckless endangerment, failure to disperse and disorderly conduct. The main problem with the arrest is that the accused are Christian evangelists. To paraphrase Ernestine the Telephone Operator, Christian evangelists are not subject to state or local regulations -- they are om-nip-ee-tent.

Another charge which might be levied against Michael Marcavage, the ringleader of the 11, is the crime of Acting Like A Total Dick, as can be seen in the video, which apparently was shot by Mike Shaw, a random documentarist who flew in from San Francisco and happened to be interviewing him at the time.

According to Snopes, the police have a seperate video, apparently with even more evidence of dickheadedness.