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“There is no just comparison between America’s struggle to overcome the evils of slavery and the promotion of the lifestyle of homosexuality. It is preposterous for Mayor Bloomberg to degrade and minimize the plight of African-Americans in this civil rights struggle by equating it with the effort to push to legalize homosexual marriage. Black Americans should not sit back and …

“Like many who heard about the prediction that a Biblical rapture world come upon us yesterday, I used the occasion to reflect upon my life. The rapture prediction put many of us in mind of our final judgment. Since no rapture took place and we are here continuing with our lives, I take from this a rededication to devoting myself …

Village Voice reporter Steven Thrasher points out a major lie told by Sen. Ruben Diaz at Sunday’s hate rally in the Bronx. Last Sunday, Reverend Ruben Diaz made a big deal about the role of Latino state senators in deciding the future of same-sex marriage in New York. As he addressed a crowd overwhelmingly composed of religious Hispanics, Diaz repeatedly …

The New Gay has launched a “Ruben Diaz fan fiction” story writing contest. Rules at the link.

Days after ripping off my Bronx hate rally video and posting it as theirs, NOM has issued its own production video of Sunday’s event.(Via- Good As You)

Yesterday Village Voice reporter Steven Thrasher spoke to Sen. Ruben Diaz’ 22 year-old lesbian granddaughter, Erica Diaz, about her expulsion from the military under DADT and her relationship with the elder Diaz. Erica is facing strong criticism across the LGBT blogosphere today for her decision to join Sen. Diaz on the rally’s stage. Hit the above link for Thrasher’s excellent …

Igor Volsky at Think Progress reports the words of Rev. Ariel Torres Ortega of Radio Visión Cristiana, who spoke at Sen. Ruben Diaz’ hate rally in the Bronx yesterday. Ortega’s speech was being translated into English from the podium, hence the odd wording below. “Committing sexual acts between man and man. And receiving the retribution of the things that they …

The maker of this clip follows the Fox report with some photos from the slideshow I posted last night. It’s interesting that Fox describes the crowd as only numbering in the hundreds, when most media outlets reported attendance at around 2500. (Tipped by JMG reader Andy)

And the crowd goes wild!(Video by Andres Duque at Blabbeando)

Below you’ll find a 130-photo slideshow of today’s hate rally in the Bronx, including some images of the good guys in the counter-protesting area. Full-screen versions are here and permission is granted for reproduction anywhere.

With his lies being interpreted into Spanish by a screaming pastor, NOM president Brian Brown warned the crowd that “kids as young as kindergarten are taught in Massachusetts that their parents are bigots because they believe marriage is the union of a man and a woman.” Brown then exhorted the crowd to believe that there is no actual separation of …

At today’s hate rally, the above woman repeatedly attempted to mount the Bronx Courthouse steps while waving two creepy lifelike dolls over her head and shouting something-something (in Spanish) about man/woman, boy/girl, Jeebus, etc etc. Security forced her back into the crowd several times and their frustration with her antics was one of the few comic moments of an ugly, …

Erica Diaz, NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ openly lesbian 22 year-old granddaughter and a victim of DADT, held a press conference across from the Bronx Courthouse this afternoon shortly before the hate marchers arrived. Reading from her iPhone, Erica denounced the fact that she is denied the right to marry her girlfriend, with whom she posed for the cameras shortly after …

Thanks to the rain, attendance at NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ anti-gay hate rally was far, far below the 20,000 evangelicals who crowded the streets of midtown Manhattan in 2009. Still, this year’s event was much more of an ecumenical hate scene, with the red-caped Catholic loons leading the parade, followed closely by a contingent of Ultra-Orthodox Jews. NOM president Brian …

Village Voice reporter Steven Thrasher just texted me the above photo of Queer Rising’s fun with a Ruben Diaz standee at the AIDS Walk. I’ll see some of you folks in the Bronx shortly.

What’s really pouring on Ruben Diaz is the 100% chance of thunderstorms for today’s hate rally.

“Don’t confront them with yelling and screaming, that just plays into NOM’s hands.” Wise words, for those us who remember NOM’s relentless usage of photos and video of angry activists on last summer’s bus tour.

Radio Cristiana was the primary backer of Diaz’ 2009 rally in Manhattan, which attracted 20,000 Hispanic evangelicals, most of whom arrived via out of state church buses. This year’s rally could be even larger with the co-sponsorship of NOM.

Let’s hope for a torrential downpour on the hate rally in the Bronx and sunny skies over Central Park for the AIDS Walk.