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.
“…no peace”
The graphic design is a mixed message.
This one is much more on brand:
“This pastor loves you”
Gather ’round to hear the word of the law.
Three Warrensburg Police vehicles. Warrensburg Police officers. And an armed private security team hired for the event venue.
Retribution appears to be a thing.
Previously:
Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)
Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)
Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)
The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)
Always the other (April 21, 2023)
Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023)
Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood (April 22, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 (April 25, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 – part 2 (April 26, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 2 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 3 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 4 (May 9, 2023)
Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 5 (May 10, 2023)
Living in a self-imposed cultural vacuum (May 10, 2023)
A downward spiral…of pearl clutching (May 25, 2023)
Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 3, 2023 – Returning to Family Friendly Format (May 26, 2023)
Thoughts and… (May 27, 2023)
Everyone is here for the ratio (May 28, 2023)
All means all (May 29, 2023)
Warrenburg, Missouri Pride Festival – before the crowd – June 3, 2023 (June 3, 2023)