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[Ediacara]

Christians opposing gay marriage to rally
35,000 people from across state expected at Safeco Field

By CLAUDIA ROWE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

A fleet of buses stands ready at the Cedar Park Assembly of God, a sprawling church complex in Bothell where a dozen volunteers spent hours this week carefully assembling 1,000 plastic displays with signs urging the like-minded to vote -- for faith, freedom and family, they say. For the future of the country.

The church group is small but enthusiastic -- Laurel Christiansen pressed her three children into service after their track and baseball practices -- and suggests the kind of dedication that could bring tens of thousands of Evangelical Christians to Safeco Field today for a massive rally protesting same-sex marriage.

Organizers of the "Mayday for Marriage" rally say that in just one month they have created a Web site, run 118 television ads and sent out 30,000 e-mail invitations. They expect as many as 35,000 Christians from around the state to attend, making Seattle the latest flashpoint in a growing national battle over the future of marriage rights for homosexuals.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. Conservatives have told us for the past 50 years

that homosexuals were a threat to "conventional marriage" because of their wanton lust and hedonistic lifestyle. Now that homosexuals want to enter into the sancitity of marriage, conservatives tell us they are a threat to conventional marriage. I guess a conservative could surely explain that juxtaposition of logic to me. I hope no one here at DU can. It must be nice to blame your failures in marriage on people you don't know.

[Just Me]

2. They seem to sanctify "marriage",...but not LOVE!!!

Why are they always fighting for "institutions" but rarely take a stand for the underlying principle which are supposed to be the foundations of those "institutions"? When it became clear to me that the "church" became more important than the people,...I said "buh-bye".

[thebaghwan]

3. I live about three blocks from the Cedar Park Church. It is where I vote.

I remember a couple of years ago the pastor was standing out by the polling place passing out copies of his voting "suggestions". There are 8 Christian churches in a 1 mile area around my house.