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The Lord’s work

over Pride any day

by Nevin Jefferson

SGN

Contributing Writer

I found myself caught in making a decision

about which Pride Parade to participate

in this year. It was either the Gay one

on Sunday or the Dyke one on Saturday. I

chose neither! Instead I went to church as

usual complete with an Eucharist visit to

Betty and Joyce at their assisted living

home. Then, I delivered papers for Randy

Van who drives a van with the license plates

“RNDY VAN” for all to see while making

our deliveries.

Randy is still recuperating from being

“un-Christian bashed” by a member of the

“Religious Wrong” that left him in intensive

care for 4 weeks. The zealot responsible for

this was trying to save Randy from his Gay

perversion and sinful lifestyle. What Randy

really needed was Jesus to save him from

the hate conditioned “hyper-Christian” who

go out and practice what they’re preached

after attending services to worship Satan.

Let’s not forget about the other percentage

of damaged minds who get their religion

from Evangelists poisoning the airways of

Television and Radio. I’ll take a God’s work

over Gay play any day, which is the reason

why I nixed another parade in another summer

of “Pride divide” in the Gay community.

Once again, the Gay community became

children of divorce who had to choose one

over the other. Division belongs in math

books! As a Black man, I’d rather integrate

than segregate. Whatever happened to unity?

I hoped and prayed that the folks of Seattle

Out and Proud would sit down with the

folks of QueerFest with the resolution being

“ONE” big parade. The Pride Parade has

evolved from marching in our own neighborhood

to an out in the open location, complete

with stores, shops, and skyscrapers.

This year’s annual 33rd Pride Parade was

two hours long and had 150 contingents

dazzling and wowing the thousands lined

up along 4th Avenue to Denny Way. Earlier

this year, the SGN scooped everyone when

it wrote that Seattle Out and Proud owed a

“cha-ching” $100,000 to the City of Seattle

for the 2006 Pride celebration at Seattle

Center. This year’s parade almost had the

plug pulled out from under it. Miracles do

happen with the Pride Parade being a witness

to all who attended both the parade and

PrideFest at the Seattle Center. Once again,

there was food, booths of the Queer and

organizational kind; complete with music.

This year’s event was presented by One Degree

Events.

“This weekend has been an amazing

event. This city can support it all,” Troy

Campbell, spokesman for Seattle Out and

Proud was quoted as saying in the Seattle

Times.

The reporter from the Times was stunned

by the Pride Parade that was mainstream

with contingents from Macy’s, Starbucks,

Banner Bank, Seattle Public Utilities, and

politicians alike. The hyper-Christians who

once again protested, were drowned out by

the crowd. For those of you who missed it,

there’s a photo gallery on the Times website.

I love it when the good of God comes into

full completion for the cause of good.

 

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Re: The Saga Continues... Archive Saga: 4/23/2002
nevin72
Mon Apr 24 17:20:57 PDT 2006
kenkosary1958 wrote: Thank you for a very informative, provactive, and straight to the point article. God Bless You! Ken Kosary Chicago, Il.