Minnesota Family Council Blasts Twin Cities GLBT Pride

Minnesota's premier anti-gay organization, the Minnesota Family Council, visited Twin Cities Pride this June and found some troubling things: churches, corporations and children.

On the churches: "It was difficult to watch churches such as All God’s Children, United Church of Christ, St. Paul Reformation Lutheran and St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church celebrate and promote homosexuality as God’s design for families."

Or maybe they just realize that using their religion to demonize a portion of the population is not what God had in mind.

On the corporations: "It was equally disappointing to witness the corporate support of the festival. Target gave each passerby a rainbow Target tattoo. 3M, IKEA, Saturn, General Mills, Chipotle and Wells Fargo were also among the strong corporate supporters of this event."

Those sponsors have large LGBT employee groups that were marching in the parade. They also realize that discriminating against a population with high disposable income doesn't make business sense. It's the free market, right?

On the children: "Perhaps the most alarming part of the Gay Pride Festival was the number of children being introduced to homosexuality and exposed to explicit and inappropriate behavior throughout the X-rated event."

I wish they would point out at least one example of X-rated content at the Twin Cities GLBT Pride Parade if they are going to make this claim. It might be hard to do, though, because there wasn't any. In fact, the Star Tribune and others commented on how bland this year's Pride Parade was. The Minnesota Family Council is more interested in scare tactics ("children at an X-rated event"), and half-truths than they actually are in debating.

You can read their full diatribe in this Google cache. The section I found this article seems to be malfunctioning.