NYC Protest Today Against “Lovefest” for Ahmadinejad
If you’re in New York this afternoon, try to make it to mid-town Manhattan for a protest across the street from the Grand Hyatt Hotel, East 42nd St between Park and Lexington Avenues at 6 PM today.
There, a group of fifty prominent Jewish and Christian leaders, and public policy groups will protest a dinner meeting between Iranian president Ahmadinejad, anti-American U.N. officials and American religious leaders.
Yeah, you read that right, American religious leaders, including representatives of The American Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee, Quaker UN Office, Religions for Peace, and the World Council of Churches-UN Liaison Office will be breaking bread with a man who murders his own people.
He executes gay people too. I wonder if national gay organizations will question these groups for dining with the tyrant. I’d bet good money they’d be demanding apologies if these groups honored James Dobson in a similar manner. Â I could find nothing on the web-sites of the Human Rights Campaign or the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF). Â
Log Cabin Republicans, however, are co-sponsoring this protest. Â At least one national gay group is standing up to the most anti-gay regime on the planet.
Not just that U.N. officials will also be there, honoring a man who threatens the destruction of U.N. member state, something which violates the organization’s charter:
Top U.N. officials are scrambling to figure out how to stop the president of the General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, from dining with and honoring Mr. Ahmadinejad, who has violated an assembly resolution against denying the Holocaust and broken one of the cardinal rules of the U.N. Charter by calling for the elimination of a member state, Israel.
Why do so many Western élites embrace the most hateful anti-American leaders?  Why do they assume that if we just sit down and talk to our enemies, we’ll make everything better? As if it’s our intransigence that’s the cause of our adversaries’ angry attitudes, brutal policies and despotic acts.
If you think it’s wrong to honor a tyrannical world leader and question the naivete of these religious leaders and are in the New York City area, make sure to join this protest today!
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Yeah, you read that right, American religious leaders, including representatives of The American Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee, Quaker UN Office, Religions for Peace, and the World Council of Churches-UN Liaison Office will be breaking bread with a man who murders his own people.
That list is a cross-section of denominations that are either marginal or dying. I didn’t see Pentecostals, Evangelicals, or representation from a certain church based in Salt Lake City listed among the hosts.
These “churches” aren’t much more than political organizations, social clubs, and day care providers.
Comment by V the K — September 25, 2008 @ 11:16 am - September 25, 2008
Executing gays isn’t a problem, denying them the right to marry is the issue at hand.
Apparently Iran is much enlightened than the US, they will freely offer sex change operations – another interesting way to eliminate the gay issue.
So maybe all the Transgenders who have hitched their wagon to the Gay agenda should be moving en masse to Iran.
As to Western Elites embracing anti American Leaders. Penny Pritzker – great supporter of Obama is a nice Jewish lady who’d rather support Ahmanadinijad over supporting Israel. Her family owns the Hyatt Hotel Chain, you’d think they might have quietly asked the meeting not take place there.
Comment by Leah — September 25, 2008 @ 11:41 am - September 25, 2008
I haven’t been following LCR politics…
Is there new leadership? I might have to actually join if they keep this up.
Comment by Clint — September 25, 2008 @ 11:54 am - September 25, 2008
count down to michael lumping all Christians together with I’m-a-dinner-jacket in 3… 2… 1…
As an aside, glad the ELCA (which I’m a nominal member) isn’t in that list.
Comment by The Livewire — September 25, 2008 @ 12:00 pm - September 25, 2008
And you might have noticed how Obama’s campaign supporters and bundlers are making kissy-kissy with A Mad Jihad.
Then again, we already know Obama supports radical terrorists; it should be no surprise that he supports this.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — September 25, 2008 @ 12:14 pm - September 25, 2008
online.logcabin.org? I can’t find anything over there about this event.
Executing gay people will be a problem if we start having creeping sharia courts spring up. Honor killing is already a problem; we just don’t hear about it happing to gay Muslim kids and adults.
Comment by The other Peter H — September 25, 2008 @ 1:37 pm - September 25, 2008
Hooray for Log Cabin! Good on you!
Comment by American Elephant — September 25, 2008 @ 3:25 pm - September 25, 2008
It figures the Log Cabins are co-sponsoring the event. At least they’re doing something against real homophobia. The LibDems are too busy trying to find significance in the Buse non-story.
Comment by Michael — September 25, 2008 @ 3:33 pm - September 25, 2008
I just found out about this fabulous website. Is it only for Christians, or for American gay conservatives of all religions?
I applaud the Log Cabin Club for participating in this event… I hope to be there myself (whoops, I had better leave NOW!)
-Martini
Comment by Martini — September 25, 2008 @ 5:53 pm - September 25, 2008
American religious leaders, including…
Breathing examples of “useful idiots”.
I gotta hand it to Ahmadinejad – he must have real self control to keep from laughing out loud when these fools prostrate themselves at his feet. Is Barry attending the dinner?
Comment by SoCalRobert — September 25, 2008 @ 10:21 pm - September 25, 2008
Martini: This website is not particularly religious.
Comment by Vince P — September 25, 2008 @ 10:44 pm - September 25, 2008
#1. Once again, the echo chamber in here just talks out its rear end. The World Council of Churches represents 550 million Christians. Pentecostal churches, too, are represented. It is so widely respected that, while the Roman Church isn’t a member, the Vatican sends representatives. But, please, don’t let me interrupt your nonsense.
#2. You make it seem like the hawks that want war with Iran actually care about the plight of gays in Iran, like this might even be one of their reasons for wanting war with Iran. That’s a funny leap of imagination. How, exactly, are those gays doing in Iraq, now that it is liberated? And, where do y’all stand on that? Your man Bush take care of that yet?
The assumptions that run through this post would be laughable, if they weren’t so divorced from reality. Are they giving him an award? Or having a dinner meeting? Inter-religious dialogue: does it have no part in the gaypatriot world? Might these folks be engaging with this precisely because they would like to challenge him on various issues? And why would political folks who often claim that religion should be respected in the public sphere–why would you want to censor or silence religious voices as they attempt to deal with a potentially violent–religiously violent–situation? #1 makes it seem that only some churches are acceptable (read: only some interpretations of God’s voice and activity in the world count). Placing “churches” in quotes? Wow. (Mind you, the comment doesn’t even reflect reality, but nevermind.) Shouldn’t Quakers and Anabaptist sects be given some respect, having settled the country early on and all? More so, simply because conservatives claim that religion should be respected?
The protest before the event positions the protesters as clairvoyant tea leaf readers…before the event even takes place! As if you’ve read the script for the dinner meeting. As if you actually even know a thing or two about the deep, rich, and productive ecumenical dialogues that take place in nyc. Nah, none of that, just more of the same: histrionics.
Comment by jimmy — September 25, 2008 @ 11:48 pm - September 25, 2008
No real Christian has any regard or respect for the anti-Christian WCC… this is validated by the fact that the angry Left seems to think they are respectable.
Comment by Vince P — September 26, 2008 @ 1:39 am - September 26, 2008