Philadelphia Outfest 2008…

“If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.“

Leviticus 20:13

Today found Repent America downtown Philly at the yearly homosexual pride event, Outfest. Hundreds of homosexuals roam the streets among the booths and tables and stages, hand in hand. We set up two different preaching locations on two different streets. We had gospel banners and sexual purity signs.

We love these people, and that is why we come out and witness to them. God commands us to preach the Gospel. We love them, and so we tell them the truth. The Bible commands that we repent and turn from our sin.

The whole day was pretty calm. We had about 12 police and civil affairs officers with camera crews at each location. We didn’t ask them to be there, but they felt the need to protect us and escort us every move we made. We got to talk to a lot of homosexuals. I spoke with a woman for about 40 minutes about how God detests homosexuality and how she needed to turn from our sin and learn to fear God. She came under a lot of conviction. Then as I was passing out tracts a homosexual man came up to me and after yelling at me about Repent America he started shoving me and telling me to get out of his face, and then another man came up and spit at me.

We passed out a ton of literature. It was going out very well. I passed out about 10 or 12 packs of the “This was your life” tract.

At 4, as we were getting ready to go, we decided to take our banners and signs, and with Robert playing guitar, walk down the middle of the busiest road of the festival. As soon as the police found out they started telling us we could not, for heath and safety reasons. James, a very outspoken homosexual who we see at every pride event started getting very angry saying “They can’t do that! They can’t walk down the street!” And blocked our way as we tried to walk down the street. The police threatened him, but when he didn’t move they didn’t do anything about it. Instead they turned on Michael and said that there was no way they would let him do that. I was videotaping, and followed him as he started to walk.

A lesbian cop stepped infront of me, blocking my way and then turned around and yelled at me and said if I kept shoving her she would hand cuff me and arrest me. I never shoved her, but then she started to push me and pull on my back pack. So then I went around the other side. There was people everywhere, and police all around Michael, pressing in on every side. I was still filming and one of the women cops with a video camera shoved past me and suddenly she grabbed my arm and twisted it hard. She left red marks on my arm… That camera died, so I grabbed another one and kept filming. They kept blocking the way. Soon it was only Jason, Michael and I standing there surrounded by cops and homosexual festival goers. They never let us go down the street, and kept blocking us. So we ended up walking down the alley and we were escorted to our car by the swarm of police.

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Saturday Night at a Strip Club

Last night, about 7 of us from Faithful Soldier and Repent America director Michael Marcavage went to preach at a Philadelphia strip club, the Show & Tel, at about 9:30 pm. We used out sexual purity signs, which said things like “Flee Sexual Immorality!” and ones with explanations of what love is and isn’t. Caleb and Michael preached to the crowds of men going in for bachelor parties, groups of friends, also including women. It was a filthy, disgusting, vile place. I felt so sorry for the men going in and for the women working, who are treated like a piece of meat, made for nothing more than being a sexual object for perverted men to gawk at.

Soon after we got there, the owner came out with several employees and started mocking us and and laughing at us. He asked us girls if we wanted jobs there and said some other filthy things. It just showed us how little he respects women. We turned a few people away, saw a woman go in to work, and saw conviction on the face of many others. “I’m MARRIED!” Some of the men yelled at us, showing us the ring on their finger. We also preached to the bus drivers bringing loads of people here. “I’m only the driver!” One guy said. He told us he agreed with our message, but moments before he walked out of the club with a stack of porn magazines on a free rack inside the door.

Then some of the club employees came out with a hose and started “washing” the sidewalk where we were standing, “accidentally” spraying us, and washing the car we were standing next to. The police came and didn’t do anything about them spraying us. About 10 cops showed up. Michael did file a complaint with them about the guy with the hose. They also almost arrested Caleb for preaching. We left there around 11:20, but a lot of people saw our message and I talked to a slightly drunk woman for a while who said she agreed with our message, and that she was going to go in to get her friends out of there because it’s a horrible and disgusting place.

The police would not let us stand on the sidewalk infront of the building because that’s where the customers park, and they said we were blocking the business. We aren’t sure, but we’re going to look into it and see if there is a law against parking on the sidewalk. We asked Sgt. Mapp but all he said was “Hey, look, they’ve been doing this for years. They have a business to run. You don’t expect me to walk up and down here ticketing every car that’s illegally parked.” We left at about 11:20…

I will try to upload pics, and an update concerning the parking laws soon. Please pray that people will be ashamed of their sin and realize how they are ruining themselves, their marriages, and their lives.