Sending a Message with Chunks of Concrete
The following press release, published on WND’s website, was written by a homosexual activist who objected to an anti-homosexual conference that was to be held at Christian Liberty Academy in Prospect Heights, Illinois:
“In the early morning hours of October 15th, we put two chunks of concrete through the glass windows and doors of the Christian Liberty Academy,” claims the author of the release, identifying himself only by a vulgar nickname. “We did this because at 6 p.m. today they will be hosting an event organized by the homophobic hate group ‘Americans for Truth about Homosexuality,’ that [sic] will be presenting an award to Scott Lively.”
Homosexual activists present themselves as mild-mannered and opposed to violence and demonstrations of hate. Don’t believe it. For decades, homosexual groups have been in the intimidation business.
Peter Vidmar, a double gold-medal winner in the 1984 Olympics in gymnastics, was forced to resign as Chairman of USA Gymnastics. Why? Because in 2008 he donated $2000 to support Proposition 8. The homosexual defamation machine went into action and put pressure on the Olympic Committee and its sponsors. The blacklist lives!
A letter writer to the San Francisco Chronicle who supported Prop 8 was intimidated when Internet search engines were used “to find the letter writer’s small business, his Web site (which included the names of his children and dog), his phone number and his clients. And they posted that information in the ‘Comments’ section of SFGate.com — urging, in ugly language, retribution against the author’s business and its identified clients.”
There’s a long history of these types of behavior. Many people are not aware of the fire-bombing of the house of Rev. Chuck and Donna McIlhenny by homosexuals who did not like the message coming from the First Orthodox Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. Do not believe homosexuals when they claim that their side would never bomb the other side.
It all started when McIlhenney’s church hired an organist who was a homosexual. In March 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a law which stated that no one could be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. In August of that same year, the church learned that their organist, Kevin, was a practicing homosexual. The young man was approached by the pastor on the basis of Matthew 18. After several hours of fruitless debate over what the Bible said about homosexuality, Kevin was fired. Based on the anti-discrimination law passed in March of that year, Kevin sued Chuck, the church, and the entire Presbytery consisting of ten other churches in northern California. And what was the response of the homosexual community?
The media attention stirred up a spiteful homosexual population in San Francisco. As a result of the news articles and radio interviews, we received obscene phone calls, dozens of threatening letters, pornographic materials mailed to us, and death-threats, some of which described the children in detail—their names, ages, what they looked like, where they attended school, and what sexually deviant acts were going to be performed on them before they killed the children. More than once we had to leave the city for safety.1
Through the legal efforts of John W. Whitehead, Chuck and his church won the first round of their legal battle. But as a result of the favorable court ruling, the McIlhenny family “continued to be terrorized by death threats over the phone and through the mail.”2 Homosexual protestors attended Sunday morning worship services. Some defaced pew Bibles and psalters. Others would stand up, walk around, slam windows, and/or verbally protest while Chuck was speaking.
Prior to controlling politics in San Francisco, homosexuals exerted their influence through intimidating violence. “On the night of 21 May 1979 hundreds of angry homosexuals stormed city hall, set fire to trash cans and parts of the building, set police cars on fire, broke windows, and injured scores of policemen” because they did not like a jury’s decision concerning the murder of a homosexual.3
Three years after the lawsuit, things heated up once again. Literally. “Rocks, beer bottles, beer cans were thrown through the church windows on many occasions. Swastikas were carved in the church doors and drawn on our house. A window in our car was smashed out. Graffiti was spray-painted all over the church, house, and sidewalk. Anti-Christian, pro-homosexual leaflets were scattered around the neighborhood calling us Nazis, bigots, anti-gay, etc.”4 Their children were once again threatened.
The daily threats and harassment continued for a full three years after the court decision. On three occasions the death threats were of such a serious nature that the McIlhennys flew their children down to Los Angeles to stay with relatives for protection. “Then on 31 May 1983 at 12:30 a.m., someone actually attempted to follow through with their threats to kill us.”5 In the alleyway next to their house, someone lit two cans of gasoline. Donna McIlhenny describes it this way:
The church and the house are right next door to each other, attached by a small alleyway. Our bedroom was right next to the alleyway. As I lay down, I was looking toward the alleyway window. I saw something flicker, and before I could even wonder what it was, a huge ball of fire roared up the alleyway wall and burst through the window into the bedroom, breaking the quarter inch pane of glass.6
God spared the McIlhenny family that night. The fireman on the scene told the McIlhennys, “The intent was to kill. It’s as if someone pointed a gun in your face and pulled the trigger . . . only, in this case, the gun misfired!”7 As of the writing of When the Wicked Seize a City in 1993, “nothing has been turned up by the police and fire department investigations as to who may have set the fire. No leads, no clues, and no person has ever been questioned!”8 The McIlhenny’s were attacked again on March 22, 1990.
When former Governor Pete Wilson vetoed a homosexual rights bill in 1991, the homosexual community literally went wild. Homosexuals hounded Wilson at political events and showed their violent side in a pro-homosexual demonstration.
As the protestors reached the old state building where Pete Wilson maintains an office, “[a] break-away group of about 400 people suddenly ran toward the building, which was being protected by fewer than 20 San Francisco and State Police officers. Grabbing metal barricades, news racks and other objects, some among the 400 began smashing the $60,000, multi-colored, lead-glass entrance doors. . . . Others hurled missiles that shattered windows, then tossed large wads of paper and ignited flares inside. The resulting fires destroyed office equipment, including costly computers, before the blazes were extinguished.”9
The homosexual rioters did not care who they hurt so long as they got their way. The pro-homosexual establishment in San Francisco protected the rioters. “In spite of the fact that the gays had set fire to a government building, graffitied the new state office building one block away, threatened the lives of dozens of police and state employees, and caused $250,000 in damages, no arrests were made that evening.”10
At another protest gathering, Crystal Mason of ACT UP/San Francisco told the crowd, as reported in The San Francisco Sentinel, “Let violence speak. Why should we allow straight society to jam their justice down our throats?”11 The tables are now turned. Homosexuals have jammed their perverted view of justice down our throat.
Why are homosexuals so quiet today? Through fear and intimidation, the homosexual community has beaten back the opposition. They no longer have to riot and bomb since they have friends in high places who have given in to their outrageous demands. But just below the surface of the genteel facade often displayed by homosexuals in movies and comic acts resides a dark and foreboding evil that will surface when the need arises. “All of this violence, vandalism and rage is to be expected from the gay community. One protestor’s placard said it well, ‘Gay Rights or Gay Riots.’ They have shown time and time again that if they don’t get their way, they will resort to any kind of civil disobedience that they consider necessary to achieve their goals. The gay political movement is not kind and gentle; if you oppose them, you can expect to have your life and family threatened, your job security threatened, your property vandalized, and your character vilified.”12
I suspect, contrary to the polls, that most Americans are opposed to homosexuality, but they fear the intimidation if they speak out. They want to appear “enlightened.” There’s nothing enlightening about supporting homosexuality.
- Chuck and Donna McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1993), 56–57. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 56–57. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 81. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 109. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 110. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 110. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 112. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 112. [↩]
- [1]“Eight face arrest in riot over rights veto,” San Francisco Examiner (October 10, 1991). Quoted in McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 217. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 217. [↩]
- October 17, 1991. Quoted in McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 219. [↩]
- McIlhenny, When the Wicked Seize a City, 221. [↩]