Vicious attacks target Rev. Bidwell

[kweerwolf]

On April 18, the Rev. Mark Bidwell arrived at Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit to an email box filled with hateful messages and an answering machine spewing similar insults and threats. The messages were the result of an email sent by the American Family Association to its lists and posted on the group's website that encouraged members to contact the Ford Motor Company and complain about their sponsorship of the upcoming Motor City Pride in Ferndale. In the process they were also able to link to MCC of Detroit via Bidwell's email address.

In the April 18 email from AFA, which as of April 27 was still posted to the group's web site, the AFA, a self-styled Christian organization, wrote, "Showing contempt for the concerns of traditional families, Ford has agreed to sponsor the 'Family Area' at the Motor City Pride Event June 2-4 which will feature a homosexual marriage 'commitment ceremony.'"

Despite the fact that the AFA message urged followers to contact Ford and never mentioned contacting his church, Rev. Bidwell said that he began receiving emails from AFA followers on April 18. As of April 27, Bidwell said that he had received well over 300 emails. Approximately a dozen of the messages were statements of support. Of the others, "Some of them are swearing at me, cussing me out, calling me an abomination," Bidwell said.

For the past two years, Rev. Bidwell and Ferndale Mayor Porter have conducted a commitment ceremony on the steps of City Hall the Saturday prior to Motor City Pride.

http://zzz.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=18555

"an email box filled with hateful messages and an answering machine spewing similar insults and threats" ... WTF? How "christian" of the folks at AFA. Perhaps AFA is really an acronym for American Fascists Association.

[greekspeak]

1. The AFA is a cover group for the folks with the $$$

Their job is to froth up the hatemongers to support the ueber-rich. That simple.