From "Gay Activists, the Real Bullies" by Lee Duigon, posted 9/3/07 at MichNews.com
Case in point: a pair of lesbians have engaged the coercive machinery of the state of New Jersey to force a small Christian community to allow their "civil union" to be performed on church property.
There must be hundreds of liberal "churches" in New Jersey who would be only too glad to host this mockery of a sacrament. The lesbians could have gone to any one of them. Instead, they selected one place in New Jersey where they were sure to be refused--and then went running to the State Division of Civil Rights (translation: civil wrongs) to cry "discrimination!"
Ocean Grove is an anomaly in New Jersey, a tiny Jersey shore community where people take the Bible seriously. For more than a century Ocean Grove was governed by the United Methodist Church, through the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OGCMA). A lawsuit put a stop to that. It also abolished the town's unique custom of closing off its main streets with chains every Saturday at midnight, to enforce Sunday as a day of rest. I suppose that was ended in the interests of promoting diversity.
Still, OGCMA owns 100 percent of the land in Ocean Grove. Anyone who wishes to live there must lease the land from OGCMA; and before they give you a lease, you have to sign a covenant saying you understand the mission of the church, and support it. The two lesbians who are trying to defeat the mission of the church signed such a covenant. Obviously they didn't mean it. Probably they moved to Ocean Grove with this very scheme in mind from the beginning.
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