In their latest attempt to appear mainstream, an activist gay group is planning on ruining the annual White House Easter Egg Roll by turning it into a political demonstration:

FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS children have gathered on the South Lawn of the White House on the Monday after Easter to roll Easter eggs across the yard and meet the Easter Bunny. Seemingly few (if any) Washingtonians have ever tried to exploit the annual White House Easter Egg Roll for political purposes. Until now. A church-based homosexual rights group is planning to crash the event with a “family visibility action” to spotlight their non-traditional families.

“On April 17, 2006, when the White House lawn is opened to families for the Annual Easter Egg Roll, imagine if the first 1,000 families onto the lawn were LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] families,” enthused a January 4 email alert from Soulforce. Once America sees the White House lawn awash in LGBT families, “there will be no going back,” Soulforce promised.

Soulforce is the political organizing tool of self-described “militant gay activist” Mel White, the former Jerry Falwell speech writer who discovered his gayness and became a clergyman in the predominantly homosexual Metropolitan Community Churches.

How an activist gay group thinks that crashing an annual family event at the White House and turning it into a parade of human debris will make mainstream America accept them is beyond me. Here’s how they intend to do this:

According to Soulforce, “LGBT” participants are being urged to gather at the White House gate the night before so as to be the first to enter the next morning. Volunteers will stand in line for “LGBT” parents who cannot do it themselves.

Although Soulforce insists this will not be a political protest, only a gathering for families, its supporters will arrive with special “non-political” t-shirts to identify themselves as “LGBT.”

I don’t have any idea how the White House plans to deal with this protest, but I have a suggestion: repeat what they did a year or two ago and only invite military families to this year’s Easter Egg Roll. Then, it won’t matter how they stand in line, they won’t get in.

If you’re thinking that these activist groups are just trying enjoy the holiday, think again. The email sent out to promote this event dispels that notion right away:

Soulforce went on to promise: “This event will be like nothing anyone has ever seen before. The White House lawn–the Bush [italics in original] White House lawn–will, quite unexpectedly, be filled with gay and lesbian families. This is something people will be talking about for a long time, an event that will make history!”

According to Soulforce, “It is time to claim our place at the table. Come to our nation’s capital and let America see who we really are.” Less any of its supporters be lacking in enthusiasm, the email promised: “It is basically going to be the biggest LGBT family party ever, you and your kids will have a great time.”

Recipients of the Soulforce email were asked to be “discreet” and not to post the information on websites because the “success of this action depends on keeping it under the radar of the media and the administration!!!”

So, apparently they know what they are doing is going to cause a disturbance, and the real reason they want everyone to show up in their t-shirts is to embarrass President Bush and his Administration. Also, they have a plan in case they aren’t allowed into the event:

Soulforce and the Family Pride Coalition warned that if the Bush administrations gets wind of their special plans, the White House Egg Roll may be declared an invitation-only event. If somehow blocked from entrance, the “LGBT” families are encouraged to still stick around outside the White House and talk to the media.

One way or another, it seems, they’re going to cause a disturbance at this event. They don’t care about the children they’ll upset, you know, the people that this event was created for. All they care about is their political agenda, and they’ll do whatever they can if they think it will help achieve it.

What a bunch of jerks.

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