San Francisco ... 'No' to Marines, 'Yes' to debauchery

Jim Brown, Chad Groening, and Jody Brown
OneNewsNow.com
September 28, 2007

Activists devoted to countering the homosexual agenda say it's a sad state for America when a major U.S. city bans the U.S. Marines from filming a recruiting commercial, but is permitting absolute debauchery to take place this weekend. 

Editor's Note: This story contains descriptions that may be offensive to some. It is not suitable for children to read.

The Silent Drill Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps has been touring the country shooting a commercial called "America's Marines," with stops in October planned for Kentucky, Tennessee, Colorado, and Arizona. Recently, the unit was filmed marching in the heart of Times Square in New York City during the morning rush hour. But when a request was made to film a segment along California Street in San Francisco, the city's Film Commission told the Marines no, saying "traffic control was the issue."

According to KGO in San Francisco, Film Commission executive director Stefanie Coyote would only allow the Marine's production crew to film on California Street if there were no Marines in the picture. The crew ended up filming the empty street and will have to superimpose the Marines later.

The city's denial of the Marines' Silent Drill Platoon has angered local conservatives and military veterans, as well as several pro-family leaders, among them Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. LaBarbera says traffic control does not appear to be a problem for an event known as the "Folsom Street Fair," taking place in the City by the Bay this weekend.

"They can't make room for the Marines to film in the city -- and yet they can manage to clear off several city blocks for a street fair that celebrates the most heinous perversions known to man," says an exasperated LaBarbera. "It's incredible the priorities of politically correct San Francisco."

LaBarbera, who once covered the Folsom Street Fair for a publication monitoring the homosexual movement, says San Francisco is a city that is in a state of "moral anarchy."

"It's a street festival blocked off by the police, and it's just incredible. You wouldn't believe it unless you actually saw it," he explains. "There are people whipping each other on the streets. It's a celebration of sadomasochistic perversion." And it is like any other street fair with city blocks blocked off, he says -- except for one major difference. "This one is dedicated to perversion," he shares. "You see men walking around barely clad or semi-nude; we have documented evidence of sex acts on the street."

According to LaBarbera, the event is "San Francisco shaking its fist at God" -- and it is all about the homosexual agenda.

"They can't stand any group that doesn't have their politically correct view of homosexuality," he states; "and yet here we see the Folsom Street Fair and other grotesque happenings in the city of San Francisco ... are all allowed to thrive in San Francisco -- and yet the Marines, the symbol of all that is good in America, are kept at bay. [Y]ou could only picture this happening in San Francisco."

Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues at Concerned Women for America (CWA), says "the vilest acts of debauchery" commonly take place at the event. He describes it as "nothing short of a mini-Sodom and Gomorrah packaged as a gay pride event."

"Scripture tells us that God will not be mocked, but it certainly does not prevent people from trying -- and that's what the organizers of this Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco [are doing]," says Barber. "That was clearly their full intent here -- to mock God, to mock Christianity. They've stuck their thumb, essentially, in the eye of millions of Christians worldwide by doing so."

Barber contends the base of the homosexual community -- the "underbelly," he calls it -- is vehemently anti-Christian. "And people of faith, people who happen to believe what the Bible teaches about human sexuality, are called hate-mongers and homophobes [by that base]," he says. "But then ... these homosexual groups in San Francisco ... turn around and lash out in this demonstrably hateful manner against the very people they accuse."

According to Barber, the city of San Francisco "suspends the law" for event like the Folsom Street Fair and allows homosexuals to "parade the streets fully nude" and engage in group orgies. The CWA culture analyst says local authorities either need to enforce the obscenity and indecency laws in San Francisco or shut down the Folsom Street Fair.