A fundie bearing hellfire on a pizza box at NC Pride

Kate and I went to the NC Pride parade today, and it was definitely the largest turnout we've seen. There was a lot of Obama support out there (right: this was my favorite T-shirt of the day). We marched in the Obama Pride section this time around. It was a wild assortment of progressive allies, members of the LGBT community, and very strong corporate support (Suntrust, US Air, Bank of America, Best Buy, Glaxo, to name a few).

We had a flock of unhinged fundies this year. Operation Save America and Flip Benham didn't show, but it looks like one of the local black churches sent out some members with handmade signs with tired "wages of sin" kind of phrases on them. They just stood silently. By contrast, the most vocal and unhinged fundies were white, that was kind of odd; I'm not sure what's going on there. I should note that there were more gay-affirming churches of all denominations marching in the parade than ever before.

I wonder what the hateful crowd thought about that.

Anyway, I was accosted by one young woman bearing a message of damnation on a pizza box who wanted to save me, so naturally I had to go over and film her. It was hilarious - her schtick was that Obama wasn't going to save us from the hellfire. I asked her why she wasn't out there protesting divorce. This got her briefly off message, then the cops told me to move along. Here's the video of her and the rest of the reality-challenged nutcases:

A slideshow of other photos from Pride and more fundie footage are over at my pad.