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Originally Posted by JJIII
I'm not going to take sides with either faction here but this may explain why someone would want to protect themselves, even in a house of worship. The gulf between a group that believes one thing and another group that believes the opposite is growing ever wider. Who's to say that what we see in this video would not escalate in bodily harm to the people praying at some point?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0oMKGFTyk |
Were the Christians pushing for a confrontation? I can't think of any other reason for them to hold a well organised prayer meeting on the steps of a Church in an area that they knew would attract people opposed to what they were doing. It's an age old practice no matter what the cause. Film it in such a way that the protesters look in the wrong. Prime time TV shows an innocent boy saying his prayers while being spat on by a protestor. Free publicity; all it costs is the price of a blank video tape. Hell, they might even make a profit from broadcast rights.