Downey City Council: Reject PRIDE Flag, Celebrate the Community as a Whole

Dear Downey City Council:

My name is Arthur Schaper, and I am the Organization Director for MassResistance.

For the last three months—and ongoing—our activists and their contacts and supporters in the city of Downey have been contacting you to reject all of this LGBT promotionalism.

It is sickening and disgusting that the city council insists on pandering to another so-called minority, aka a sexual minority. The latest attempt, a discussion about flying the PRIDE Flag at city hall, is deeply offensive.

According to common law, natural law, and even proper constitutional law, there is no such thing as a “sexual minority.” Just because there is a smaller group of people who engage in certain behaviors, that does not mean that those individuals constitute another “minority.” I must remind this council that there are no ex-blacks, or ex-Cubans, but there are ex-gays and former transgenders. Their very existence proves that the whole LGBT movement is based on a lie, i.e. that people are “born that way,” and therefore that group should receive special celebrations and treatment.

Furthermore, I must remind the city council that the whole PRIDE month hagiography is based on a lie. The Stonewall Riots in 1969 had nothing to do with New York City police officers harassing peace-loving homosexuals and transgenders trying to enjoy a drink in a seedy bar. The Stonewall Inn was a notorious mob bar, and that bar was not paying their liquor license fees. For that reason, the bar endured one raid after another because of their failure to comply with New York City’s municipal codes.

So let’s dispense with the politically correctness nonsense that PRIDE Month or LGBT Month is somehow worthy of celebration.

Furthermore, it is indeed quite ironic that LGBT activists like Councilman Trujillo want to flaunt their gayness and have a picnic, a resolution, and a flag ceremony to celebrate their perversion, yet numerous residents have informed me that when he was running for city council last year, he never once brought up his sexual preferences. Now, after getting elected, he wants the whole world to know about his sexual conduct. This more or less holds true for Councilwoman Alvarez, as well.

This whole LGBT promotionalism is just so despicable. It is wrong for politicians to push their narrow agenda onto a city, when they had campaigned for office by pledging to deal with local bread-and-butter issues like street repair, public safety, and security for the business environment in the city.

Homosexuality and transgenderism should not be promoted in any city. Just because a number of government entities have caved to this agenda does not mean that Downey should do the same. Downey residents called on the school board to reject the sexually explicit, pro-LGBT sex-ed curriculum “Teen Talk.” Residents are now speaking out against the further promotion of LGBT themes and ideologies in city hall, as well.

The city must not promote behaviors, identities, and ideologies that are harmful to the individual and to the community as a whole. Homosexual conduct leads to an average decline of 20% in the lifespan of individuals. Transgenders struggle with a staggering 41% suicide rate, and in even the most LGBT affirming countries. There is a growing opposition to LGBT promotion and domination in the public square, as witnessed in a recent USA Today poll (Click here)

Last of all, the city needs to stop promoting narrow special interests and distinct segments of the city population at taxpayers’ expense, and at the expense of constitutional unity. For example, the Greek-American community hosts their annual celebrations on their own dime. Why do LGBT activists think that they have a right to city funds to promote their destructive behaviors in the community? As a reminder, people are born with a certain ancestry or ethnicity—but they are not born gay or born in the wrong body.

The Downey City Council should demonstrate its true commitment to unity and civic harmony and reject the hoisting of a PRIDE Flag or any other narrowly tailored banner. The only banners which should fly over city hall are the American Flag, the California Flag, and the POW “You Are Not Forgotten” Flag.

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper

Organization Director

MassResistance

To all readers and visitors, please contact the Downey City Council and urge them to reject flying the PRIDE Flag at Downey City Hall.

Here is their contact information:

Claudia Frometa

(562) 904-7274

cfrometa@downeyca.org

Blanca Pacheco

(562) 904-7274

bpacheco@downeyca.org

Sean Aston

(562) 904-7274

sashton@downeyca.org

Catharine Alvarez

(562) 904-7274

calvarez@downeyca.org

Mario Trujillo

(562) 904-7274

mtrujillo@downeyca.org

Surprise: Even Gays No Longer Proud of Gay Pride Parades

Gay pride parades started discoloring the scene June 28th, 1970, following the Stonewall Riots in New York City. The first parade took place along Christopher Street, specifically, where the Stonewall Inn is located.

Since then, different cities large and small have brought in Gay pride parades of different kinds. They are debauched affairs, filled with sexual perversion, rampant nakedness, and child abuse.

I marched in the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade last year as a pro-Trump, pro-Family counterprotest. A few other members of LA County for Trump had joined me, but ultimately we had a small contingent within the parade. Most of the opening speeches at the event featured Democratic politicians from the city as well as Congressional representatives like Lyin' Ted Lieu (my Congressman, sadly).

The whole affair turned into a Resist Trump March, and some homosexuals in the Los Angeles area refused to participate. Some gays voted for Trump, and one of them walked by me and my fellow counterprotesters to share how uncomfortable the whole event had become.

Gay Pride parades in Toronto have fallen on hard times, too.

Check out this report:

But there are some perfectly legitimate reasons to skip the annual [Toronto Gay Pride Parade] bash. I’m gay, and I boycotted the parade last year. So did a lot of other people, apparently: Pride’s beverage sales declined from $348,917 in 2016 to $197,336 in 2017.

The sales fell by half!

What happened?

With Pride now so closely associated with radical anti-police NDP activists, any conservative who attends is walking into a hornets’ nest.

And that’s not the only reason a centrist or right-leaning politician might want to skip.

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The Gay Pride parades have become increasingly lawless affairs, where left-wing intersectionality politics has bred more disruptions from other aggrieved identity groups. Black Lives Matter protesters overwhelmed gay pride parades in Minneapolis and Washington DC last year, essentially shutting them down. One report out of Sweden suggests that left-wing demonstrators tried to shut down a gay pride parade in Stockholm because it was offensive to Muslims. Similar protests interrupted the gay pride event in Edmonton, Alberta this year, too. Interestingly enough, pride parades in other cities have gotten shorter but with more security. Check out what happened in Chicago in 2016, for example.

The first major point, however, rests on the anti-police, anti-public safety sentiment growing among these different events.

The premier-designate Doug Ford had other words for the parade, too:

Some on the left have claimed Ford’s description of Pride as an event where “middle-aged men with pot bellies” run down the street “buck naked” was evidence of homophobia. I’d say that was just an accurate description of what goes on. Disturbingly, more and more parents are bringing young children to watch the parade, exposing them to provocative displays of sexuality that no child should witness. If a politician believes in family values, why would he or she want to be associated with such debauchery?

Every politician should believe in family values. Notice also that the writer of the report quoted above contrasts gay pride with family values. They are simply not the same thing, and how could anyone argue otherwise? For the record, that writer identifies as gay.

There are people who still identify as gay and want to practice their faith. At the outset, I find these talking points very difficult to swallow (no pun intended). It makes very little sense to me how any religious adherent can still embrace homosexual behaviors and consider themselves walking in line with the tenets of their faith. Still, those individuals exist, and they find that gay pride parades are not welcome.

Here's a statement from a gay Muslim from the United Kingdom:

As such, Pride feels much more like an ode to capitalism than a fight for actual civil rights. Pride’s corporative makeover contributes to an image that I find politically troubling – that neoliberal ideology is the generator of LGBT rights. As a gay person of Muslim heritage, the inescapable secularism of Pride makes me anxious. When western capitalism is painted as a haven for gay rights, I experience a friction between the Muslim and queer parts of my identity.

Putting aside the inane self-absorption of this writer, there is a wider point worth taking out of this passage. The increasingly secular nature of the whole pride event is a general turnoff to those with some belief in a transcendent creator

The obscene displays of half-naked or almost completely naked adults have no place in public, especially with young children.

The regressive Left has learned the hard way that if equality is the final standard for anything, one group of people will claim to be more equal than another group. Nothing but conflict emerges from this fight over greater victimhood and entitlement.

It's time for Gay Pride parades to roll up and go away. Some conservatives who still identify with same-sex attraction have stated that these parades are not even necessary, since gays can "marry", anyway, and that's the only value that really matters.

There's one problem, however: the left is not interested in reaching certain goals, but rather pushing an encroaching, destructive cultural Marxism at all costs.

Christians: It's Time for Our Own Stonewall "Riot"

The homosexual hagiography surrounding the Stonewall Inn in New York  City is well known. President Obama made sure of its exalted status when he declared the location a national landmark!

The inn served as a safe space for people who identified as gay. Following another police raid on the inn, the gays fought back, and started fighting for their rights.

Granted, there were sudden police raids. Arbitrary police force is unacceptable.

And yes, every human being has natural rights.

But homosexuality is not a civil right–it’s a behavior.

And now, the riots which exploded on June 28, 1968 have turned into an all-out war against the rights and liberties of law-abiding Americans.

Apparently, the bar was also a mafia hangout. Not sure there was a connection then, but it would be hard not to draw the distinction today.

The “victims” of 1969 have bred the victimizers. The men and women–Christians then who never bothered anyone are now facing angry rants, raids, and rioting of embittered LGBT activists.

In the United States, over thirty states voted to uphold the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. A rogue Supreme Court struck down the legal authority of the state legislatures and the people to impose a radical redefinition of an institution which predates you and me and everyone else.

Here in California, where eight years ago voters in the most Democratic stretches of Los Angeles as well as the most ruby red Republican regions voted to define natural marriage as a constitutional amendment, they have witnessed eight years later the  complete shakedown of their rights.

One pastor in San Francisco faced an angry mob of LGBT activists, who surrounded his church and yelled inside: “We want your son.”

Christians shouldn’t just sit by and wait for things to work their way back to normalcy.

Enough is enough.

It’s time for us to start swinging, to fight back, but not with our fists, but with faith, with coordinated organization, with truth.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12)

Christians were the first community organizers, after all!

Jesus brought together twelve disciples, who in turn preached the word, and caused many thousands more to believe–and still do today!

Consider how the Early Church operated as one:

“And all that believed were together, and had all things common;” (Acts 2:44)

We are one body in Christ, for those who believe on the Name of Jesus.

There is no reason for us to run in fear. There is no excuse for Christians who know the Truth, who trust God for their salvation (here and now, as well as hereafter) to retreat from this unnatural, evil onslaught.

I was talking with another Christian, a strong lady who works with a well-connected, fearless husband. Her reaction to what seems to be a growing feckless community of Christians? Her reaction to the sudden juggernaut of homosexual marriage, transgenderism, homosexual curricula in public schools, plus the unsettling LGBT assault on individual liberties?

“It’s embarrassing!”

We live in California, and we have seen the next stage of the homosexual juggernaut–an attempt to shut down every Christian college in the state and muzzle Christian education for good. We beat back a large part of that agenda, but we cannot claim victory yet.

What has happened in California? All over the country, if not the world?

The Christians have become like dumb sheep, refusing to speak out!

Indeed. How many of us really believe the promises laid out for us in Isaiah?

“14In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

“15Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake."

16Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

“17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.” (Isaiah 54: 14-17)

Do we believe the certainty of victory offered to us through Christ Jesus today?

“37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 37-39)

How much longer before we see men and women losing their lives, not just their livelihood?!

If a rag-tag group of homosexuals in 1969 could rally parades after a riot and a raid in New York City, then surely Christians connected throughout every city in this country, in the world can rise up and push back against this immoral, unsound insanity.

Our kids deserve better.

Our community needs better.

Let’s fight for what is right.

What better way can I say it?

Christians, it’s time for us to have our own Stonewall Riot.

Except we do not have to destroy property.

We are not parading for something that we should be ashamed of.

It’s time to take to the streets. It’s time to declare our righteousness.

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.” (Isaiah 61:1)

It’s time for us to believe that no matter what weapon they form (and there will be weapons formed against us), they will not prosper!

He died for us. He lives for us.

It’s time for us to stand and resist this great evil!