Great crowd rallies in Saint Cloud

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Today we held another very successful and upbeat rally in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

It was my first time this far north into Minnesota and it was great to have the opportunity to be there, to meet the people and to speak with them about why they need to stand up for marriage.

I had come to Minnesota a few years back but stayed in the Minneapolis area, visited the Mall of America and had dinner at a Russian restaurant in Saint Paul.

Anyway, the message was particularly important for the people of Minnesota because activists pushing the homosexual agenda have opened multiple fronts in the legislative branch, are working hard to elect a sympathetic governor this year and they are trying to legalize same-sex marriage through the judicary as well.

That is why our message today focused on educating the public about the imminent threat that marriage is facing here.

Unlike some other states, the threat is imminent here and the elections this November may very well be the most important elections for the state of Minnesota in terms of protecting things like marriage, life and family. That is the message Chuck Darrel of the Minnesota Family Council delivered to our rally of over two hundred.

Chuck did a great job of demonstrating the urgency of the issue and of motiviating the crowd to take action. Chuck was also with us in Saint Paul yesterday in front of the Minnesota State Capitol but I still need to confirm whether or not he will be with us tomorrow in Rochester, MN. I will update on that later on.

Like I mentioned, we had at least two hundred attendees today and the best part is that they were an active crowd. You could sense that they were engaged and excited to be there and I know that when they left our rally today they were going to go home and spread the word. I remember one man who I was standing next to for a period of time who wanted to know how he could organize a GOTV effort within his church, as one of our speakers suggested to the crowd as a way of taking action.

Luckily for him, one of our supporters was Minnesota State Representative Steve Gottwalt, who represents MN District 15A in the State House.

He came to our rally today, wore our marriage sticker and explained to the man how he could set up a group to get out the vote. It was great to meet Mr. Gottwalt.

So again we signed up a bunch of new supporters, handed out hundreds of stickers, buttons and pens. We also had bumper stickers this time - one with the NOM logo alone and the other with the NOM logo and "National Organization for Marriage" written under it.

As for the protesters, there were enough to count on one hand and they stayed closer to the street, held and few signs and kept to themselves. They weren't an issue.

Our stalkers from California were lurking around our crowd, though. They too basically kept to themselves. One of them sat on the grass typing away at her computer and the other had his nose in his camera for the majority of the rally.


I am encouraged. We've had two rallies without a disrespectful group of protesters. It's off to Rochester.

9 comments:

Best crowd yet baby! By all accounts, you should reach the hundreds of thousands you want to reach sometime on 2045. Now that is what i call success, right?

Anonymous said...

GOD DID NOT MAKE MAN FOR MAN, OR WOMAN FOR WOMAN............HE MADE A MAN , THEN HE SAID MAN NEEDS A HELPER, SO HE MADE A WOMAN FOR THE MAN........IF YOU READ YOUR BIBLE, IT IS PLAIN & SIMPLE..CLEAR AS DAY. GENESIS 2:18-25........WHY CAN'T THE GAY PEOPLE UNDERSTAND SOMETHING SO SIMPLE ???? I'M NOT THEIR JUDGE, BUT GOD'S WORD SAY'S THEY WON'T GET INTO HEAVEN....GUESS THERE WILL BE A LOT OF FRIED GAY'S IN HELL......

Timothy Kincaid said...

Over 200? Wow, that's pretty amazing; your picture only includes 61 people and the observers (lurkers) only counted 73.

I assume that the other 140 hid when the cameras came out? Or perhaps because they were such an active crowd they were all moving around and each one got counted three times.

Because I'm sure that since you are a Christian and you know that God is watching, you wouldn't just lie through your teeth. Would you?

But if you're wondering why you only got a handful of protesters, that would be because there was a rally in a park across town. I hear their crowd was larger than yours, but its hard to tell because they only counted people who were actually there.

Haley Ray said...

Success is every State that banned same-sex marriage already. Perhaps that's the number count you should be most concerned about.

Anonymous said...

"success in every state"? Washington is a state and you lost here.

Nothing in the Ten commandements about gays but there is about false witness.

Timothy Kincaid said...

Haley Ray,

I'm just here to advocate for honesty. Surely you support limiting our words to those that are based in fact, don't you?

We'll let the future hold what the future holds, when it comes to marriage. But in the meantime God measures our words and holds us to a standard of honesty.

Surely if God so hates lies that he forbid them in His ten commandments, and if God so abhors using his name in vain that it too made the top ten list, then surely lying in the name of God is one of the most grievous sins one can commit.

Jude Stevens said...

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/07/29/american-rabbis-sign-declaration-of-gay-acceptance/
Hi Louis - I am sad that you did not live up to your promise to speak with me when you were in Madison. Since you are so busy, I'll send you information on groups that recognize same sex couples as human. Check out the story about Jewish Rabbi's accepting gays.

Sean said...

Hi Louis,

I'm perplexed - I understand the need for moderated comments in a forum that could attract offensive or incendiary posts - which have no place in open, educational debate -- but why haven't you posted my comment on your Indiana thread?

It's one where a supporter of the NOM event carried a sign advocating the lynching of gay couples? (I'm sure that guy's over at Red Lobster with a sign citing Leviticus as a reason to murder shellfish eaters too, but I digress...).

You know, he was interviewed on some other site, but nobody from NOM, not Brian, not Maggie, has decried his statements. Brian sure was upset about Providence; I expected a man of God to be equally as upset about someone advocating murder as he was about some loud counterprotesters.

I'd hate to think you're presenting yourself as an unbiased, "both-sides" style observer but editing out the icky stuff you don't want your blog readers to see....

Magpie said...

Read this article I found about what is going on in Massachusetts after "Gay Marriage" was forced upon it's citizens. The article reports that efforts by the Gay Agenda to "normalize" homosexuality is being taught in the schools. And that there is a very vigilante effort to legislate the acceptance of Homosexuality on the public! http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html

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