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Jun 25, 2005

I went to the Last Bill Grahmn Crusade!



Yesterday here in New York City, I took my best freinds mother to see Billy Grahm.
This is supposed to be his last crusade, I was a bit reluctant, but decided to attend! I took the train from Time Square and got to Queen's The area of teh park is called Flushing! Any way I suprised to see so m any people. There were over 50, thousand at least. While there people were met by a funementalist group called A TRUE CHRUCH ..This is there website. They held anti gay, and Billy Grahm sign's.

They believe that Graham is going to hell. They even had signs saying FAG'S go to hell,http://www.atruechurch.info/home.html. What shoked me evn more than these nuts, was the disgust in the eyes of the people going to Graham. Many argued for hours, about hoe unchritsian it was to use such language! They argued some until late in the night. It was kind of funny, seeing religious evangelical's defending gay people.
Well life is neither black or white at times..just grey! Any way the crusade was fun, with people dancing, and people handling out leaflets.It was a very diverse crowd, Indians, Korean,Black, White. There was also a group handing out leaflefts they all wore beards and amoish like clothe's. I asked them were they were from, they are a commune like the amosih! They make there own clothes, and just want to live in peace, he told me! To me it seemed alittle cultish, but I do not know much abou them. They did have black members, one ran up to me when he saw me inquiring about the group! The Crusade was on a Friday, and is going through the entire weekend. I rember Graham saying "The Yanks are not doing too well, and they and the Mets both need your prayers". "I always pray for New York because I love this city."
I guess in some small way I was part of history!

1 Comments:

Anonymous David said...

The group to which you refer, a true church, did not have any signs which said anything anti-gay, as you thought. I know. I am a member and was there.

The anti-gay signs to which you refer were carried by a group from Topeka, Kansas called Westboro Baptist Church. Their website is www.godhatesfags.com. Although they happen to be right that no homosexual shall inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor 6:9-10), they are not Christian by any means. A biblical expose' of this heretical church can be found at www.atruechurch.info/godhatesphelps.html.

It is not surprising that you would mix us up as you did, given that our groups could not be not separated nearly enough, due to security needs.

David Oldham
a true church

6:12 AM  

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