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(A member of the Phelps clan picketing a US soldier's funeral, as bikers stand with their backs turned, counter-protesting the clan of haters.)

Rev Phelps to Protest SF's First Lesbian Marriage

Please allow me to be among the first to welcome the hateful anti-gay Rev. Fred Phelps clan of Topeka, Kansas, to gay America's city of love, San Francisco, when they arrive on June 16 to protest gay and lesbian marriages at City Hall.

Every effort should be made to help Phelps get the media attention he so desires, all the better to have him be the public face of anti-marriage equality, and for gay leaders to wisely use him to move California voters to vote against the November ballot initiative.

Phelps' hateful messages targeting gay people and American soldiers are repulsive and I believe many voters who are on the fence about the fall initiative can't emotionally associate with his rhetoric, and he can push voters to do the right thing at the ballot box for us. I'm very much anticipating dueling photos of his clan's twisted blood-lust versus images of public love from the gays streaming into City Hall to make American history.

At the time of Phelps' demonstration, inside City Hall, at the stroke of 5:01 pm, our boy-king mayor will be engaged in helping two adored grandmothers of the gay and lesbian community get hitched. From the Bay Area Reporter:

In San Francisco, partners Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who have been together more than 50 years, are to be married in a private ceremony officiated by Mayor Gavin Newsom on Monday, June 16 just after 5 p.m. in City Hall. Although it had been reported elsewhere that the clerk's office would start performing marriages for other same-sex couples on Monday, mayoral spokeswoman Giselle Barry told the Bay Area Reporter this week that Monday would be limited to Lyon and Martin, who will be the first same-sex couple married in San Francisco. The two icons also were the first to be married during the Winter of Love in 2004.

I'll be one of the multitude attending the lesbian marriage ceremony and celebration come this Monday, and I'll be sure to stop by wherever Phelps is doing his demonstration, and thank him for showing up, lending his important voice to the gay marriage cause. America in her heart does not hate fags or the soldiers, and this reverend plays a crucial role in bringing out the love America wants to express for gays and our servicemen and women in Iraq.

An excerpt from the GodHatesfags.com crew announcing their June 16 protest plans:

San Francisco City Hall 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl. We have a message for you california - fags doom nations. The Lord Jesus Christ said Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Shame on you! Making a law that says men can marry each other doesn't change the standard of God. Just as when San Francisco lawlessy married fags in 2004, WBC will be there to remind you that it never has been and never will be okay to be a fag. What a bunch of hypocrites you are - why do you put any limits on who can marry? If you're not going to follow the clear scriptural standard of one man, one woman for life who do you pretend you have a standard? Why can't three men marry each other? Why can't a woman marry a dog? Why can't a man have five wives?

See you at City Hall, Rev. Phelps. And thanks ever so much for serving as the spokesman for homophobia.