The Sioux Falls Pride parade Saturday drew thousands of people, despite not-quite summery weather. There was cool rain and a few snowflakes from Iowa who came to gripe and moan about not getting to float their grievances:
On Friday, a group called Rescue the Perishing released a statement claiming that on behalf of the Christian ministry, Paul Dorr contacted Sioux Falls Pride in April to see if they could qualify to enter a float for the June 10th Pride parade.
…Sioux Falls Pride Secretary Cody Ingle responded to Dorr, writing “If you are non-affirming (i.e. you do not affirm LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit individuals), you are not welcome in the parade… Sioux Falls Pride does not allow any non-affirming organizations to be a part of our festival.”
…Rescue the Perishing is a self-proclaimed group of “boomer” men who range from age 65-80. The group’s website asks for forgiveness as they “were silent on sexual sin for too long.”
…Now, Rescue the Perishing is claiming that Sioux Falls Pride is non-inclusive and “heterophobic,” and they plan to line the parade route to “call the homosexuals and others lost in sexual sin to repent and turn to Christ” [staff, “Religious Group Denied Float Entry in Sioux Falls Pride Parade,” KSFY, 2023.06.09].
Come on, fellas: you don’t get to enter a float in the Hobo Day Parade saying “Go Yotes!”
Paul Robert Dorr of Ocheyedan, Iowa, is a familiar whining grandstander for Jesus. He propagandized in Yankton in 2011 trying to get voters to underfund their public schools. He did the same in Rapid City in 2019. Dorr evidently has made a three-decade career of trying to disrupt communities and destroy public education, bouncing all over the Midwest to campaign against public votes on school funding. Dorr contends that sending Christian children to public schools is a sin.
Dorr also got a $125 fine for burning four LGBTQ books from the Orange City public library.
Parade organizers discouraged paradegoers from interacting with Dorr and his fellow aging religious poseurs. Declining to interact likely spared paradegoers Dorr’s rambling sexual hang-ups dressed up as theology, like his opposition to contraception, even within marriage. Dorr appears to believe that married folks using condoms prompted his righteous Lord to kill lots of people with covid vaccines. Whackdoodlery galore—just walk on by, and let the old snowflakes melt.
I’ll bet those goons were taking photos so they
would have new material to masterbate to.
Yup, the “so-called Pro Life” movement’s next agenda item is to eliminate contraception. Contraception is an expansion of freedom and personal choice, which are two notions the Right to Life crowd can’t tolerate.
So…this blogging is complaining about “out-of-state name-callers.”
Ironic, eh?
I’ll bet those fine upstanding Christian men were
taking photos so they would have new material to masterbate to.
Come again, Nix?
Thanks Bob.
Laugh of the day !
What immediately comes to mind are a couple of thoughts. One: A lot of these self-righteous, older gents must be incels. Two: Adrian Cronauer’s quote, “You are in more dire need of a b***job than any white man in history.”
There are many problems with the Bible, but the most common misunderstanding is that the whole book is about one religion, ‘Christianity’. It is not, the first is the Jewish Abrahamic faith which when Jesus shows up basically says ‘youve been doing it wrong, God is benevolent, love is above all, the previous messengers were types and shadows, I am the clearest picture yet.
Too many people think the crucifixion was done so Gentiles could take a shot at being better Jews. It was not, it was so nobody again would need to justify themself with the Law. What was crucified WAS the LAW.
Problem is, Grace based theology isnt as effective at controlling parishioners and citizens, Law is, and Fundamentalism lives on.
Worst information decision ever was including the Jewish Laws alongside Jesus’ grace message when mass printing the bible.
Now I don’t really buy either, have spent enough of my life chasing that down. I do buy that Jesus message of a benevolent god aligns with other world religions.
‘Old Testament’ or ‘Law’ folks seem to be more interested in power and politics than people. Thanks Constantine.
And Grudz, they chose to entangle themselves with the fine people of South Dakota so had it coming.
Apparently Paul Dorr has had an axe to grind vs. Leslee Unruh, for DECADES?:
the second page of the flyers they brought along to hand out:
[…Many Christians were seduced into two fake institutional responses over the years. 1) Vote
Republican and 2) Write a healthy check to a fake pro-life group like the Alpha Center or the National
Abstinence Clearinghouse (NAC), founded by Leslee Unruh. Both are located here in Sioux Falls.
In my old newsletter dated, April 30, 1994, RTP reported that Leslee Unruh “said in a public setting
in Chamberlain, that teaching young people the Seventh Commandment (forbidding adultery)
just doesn’t get anywhere with them anymore.” That’s fake! RTP also reported in that same
newsletter, that “Shadehill rancher, Jonathan Wiechman, heard Unruh speak in Lemmon, SD
(1/12/92). He reports being very disappointed. What turned us off was her talking about intimate
things in front of a mixed group of men and women; but especially talking that way in front of men at
all. It really concerned us that she spoke to a mixed group of young people earlier that day. We
surely didn’t expect what we heard.” …]
https://www.rescuetheperishing.org/2023/06/09/handout-from-repentant-boomers-on-sioux-falls-pride-parade-june-10/
The Bible, Mr. B (Mark), is suitable only for fire kindling and bed time boogie man stories.
Grudznick…of course you know you are condemning Western Civilization to the flames…though progress usually occurs when visionaries step forward with movements to reform religious institutions. My Grandmother, descended from Danish Free Thinkers read the Bible every night. She was not overtly religious. At age 90, she was asked why she read the Bible. “Oh,” she said,” there are wonderful stories in there. You wouldn’t believe the messes those people get themselves into.”
That’s the boogie man story part, Mr. Blundt. It’s like reading the Bros Grimm, or maybe even one of those old Pen-house Magazines they used to sell down at the 7-11 in the magazine rack. Great stories. Just don’t count on it being reality.
Grudz, you speak truth
This is why grudznick has been voted the Most Loved Conservative with Common Sense at this here blogging place for 5 years running, Mr. B.
I know Brad Estes pretty well actually. He’d have been a good mayor.