{"id":3612,"date":"2006-03-29T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/well-what-do-you-know.html"},"modified":"2006-03-29T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T09:29:20","slug":"well-what-do-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/well-what-do-you-know.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, what do you know"},"content":{"rendered":"

SF paper cleans clock of SF supervisors over their reaction to the evangelical youth rally (see below)<\/a><\/p>\n

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THE IRONY was obviously lost on the clueless San Francisco supervisors when they passed a resolution warning that a Christian youth gathering could "negatively influence the politics of America’s most tolerant and progressive city." <\/p>\n

Spare us the doomsday hyperbole, supervisors. <\/p>\n

We can safely report that the politics of San Francisco suffered no discernible shift in ideological alignment from the convergence of 25,000 Christian teenagers listening to rock ‘n’ roll music and words of inspiration. There was no evidence of any surge in support for the Iraq war, affection for President Bush or oil drilling off the California coast. The medical-marijuana clubs were still doing business as usual, public dancing was still legal, the petition gatherers were still working Market Street for the latest save-the-planet cause. <\/p>\n

The supervisors’ reaction to the evangelical Christians was so boorishly over the top that only one word could describe it: <\/p>\n

Intolerant. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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