Warrensburg, Missouri Pride Festival – hand wringing, pearl clutching, and sign waving in the noonday sun – June 3, 2023

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intolerance, missouri, pearl clutching, pickets, Pride Festival, right wingnuts, Warrensburg

The Warrensburg Pride Festival started at 11:00 a.m. today. In addition to the vendors, activities, and entertainment inside the venue a number of intolerant people stood across the street to express whatever.

It was hot and humid.

“…your sin…”

At one point a somewhat irate older man in a pickup truck stopped in the road in front of me and yelled at me for photographing the picket signs, adding something unintelligible about photographing the activities in the venue behind me. Where did he think I just came from?

Another individual yelled that he would sue me for taking his picture or something. For the millionth time, if you’re doing something in public you have no expectation of privacy when it comes to news coverage. And, in a world of social media. We didn’t use that image because his sign just wasn’t that photogenic.

“If U R lukewarm, I will vomit you out!”

First rule of signs, don’t run out of green letters.

“Woe to them who call evil good and good evil”

“We stand for protecting your chidren not exploiting them!”

How would he know?

A possible short lecture on when crossing the line becomes trespassing.

“…kid-friendly!”

Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

So much for “love”.

“…loves the sinner!”

Is that like a get out of jail free card? Just asking.

Denny Hoskins (r).

Yeah, Denny Hoskins (r) signed that nasty letter. Nice t-shirt. Running for something?

Interestingly, Denny Hoskins (r) worked the folks with the intolerant signs, walked across the street and shook the Warrensburg Police officers’ hands, but he didn’t bother to go into the venue to greet his constituents attending the Pride Festival.