Today In Christian Love™

Slog’s Dominic Holden posts the message that came with the above photo.

Last week the University of Washington’s FoQus group for Queer Students held a food drive for the Lifelong Aids Alliance. We raised a lot of money and food that they desperately needed, all the while being picketed, loudly, in the middle of Red Square by church folk, who were yelling that people with AIDS did not deserve to eat, condoms would not save you from hell, and that “Queers shall experience hell, along with the drunkards, druggies, STD havers, and church gossips!” While it was horrible to hear them say as many homophobic things as they did, we’d really like to thank them for picketing so hard, because so many people came up to us and handed us a lot of cash and food donations, just to piss them off.

The protesters reportedly handed out pamphlets from Seattle’s infamously anti-gay Mars Hill Church, although the church later issued a statement denying any official involvement.