Right wing fundamentalists from BattleCry return to SF this week- Protest Friday 12noon

“BattleCry for a Generation,” are back to hold a 2nd annual mega-revival rally at ATT/SBC Park March 9 through March 10 - kicking off with a city hall protest.

Join the World Can’t Wait - Drive Out The Bush Regime!, Bay Area Coalition for Reproductive Rights (BACORR), Not In Our Name (Bay Area) and other progressive organizations to show the world that BattleCry’s intolerance is resisted in San Francisco. Everyone is welcome - of all creeds, faiths, and communities - who wants to stand up and say; “Religion is one thing, but Theocracy is another - the Christian Right is Wrong!”

BattleCry comes to San Francisco to politically assault fundamental values and rights cherished by most San Franciscans, and to carve away at the separation of church and state. As the BattleCry website has advertised, they are rallying on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall because it was there that the ‘blasphemy’ of same sex marriage was allowed. Their return to City Hall is in direct defiance of the SF Board of Supervisors’ adamant resolution last March, which condemned BattleCry’s anti-woman, anti-gay message as an agenda of hatred and intolerance.

A BattleCry stadium revival subjects 25,000 teenagers to hours of sermons and Christian rock surrounded by militaristic decor (hummers, dog tags and fatigues, Navy Seals complete with automatic weapons). BattleCry indoctrinates teens against the evils of secular music, divorce, abortion, homosexuality, disobedience to authority.

BattleCry is no innocent teenage prayer group. BattleCry’s extreme politics are violent and reactionary. BattleCry founder and frontman Ron Luce works directly with Pat Robertson (who blamed 911 on feminists, homosexuals, pagans, abortionists, etc.), Franklin Graham, and Jerry Falwell.

The Texas-based BattleCry is a multi-million dollar operation that preaches unthinking obedience to government and calls for this country to be run as a theocracy. That American theocracy would be governed by a literalist interpretation of the Christian Bible replacing the secular rule of law in every sphere of life. And Luce promotes the vision that a fundamentalist Christian America should rule the world.

WHY WE DENOUNCE BATTLECRY:
If we in the Bay Area don’t confront the Christian Right with energetic protest and repudiation, if we allow BattleCry’s message of violence and bigotry to broadcast unprotested from the heart of San Francisco - what are we saying to justice-loving people in Alabama, Idaho, Texas or to the victims of intolerance past, present and future anywhere else in the country or the world? “That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn - or be forced - to accept... Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.”

-from ’The Call’ to Drive Out The Bush Regime
http://www.worldcantwait.org
For more information or to request press interviews with event spokespeople, call the World Can’t Wait (415) 864-5153 or email: sf [at] worldcantwait.org