LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY blueboy2000)

In case you haven't heard, Lou Engle (of "Justice House of Prayer" and "Jesus Camp" fame) is organizing "The Call," a heavy-duty religious right propaganda event disguised as a "solemn prayer gathering," in Nashville on July 7. I was getting ready to post on this yesterday, since by itself this is cause for alarm.

But then a friend of mine told me about a larger event being held by Engle's organization, TheCause USA known as "God's Summer of Love." It's a cross-country tour that is set to start in Nashville on July 8 and end in San Francisco with a huge rally in Golden Gate Park--epicenter of the "Summer of Love." In truth, what these guys are promoting is actually a Summer of Hate.

Here's where they're gonna be (culled from RedRiders, TheCause's mobile ministry:

July 8-10: Nashville, TN
July 11-13: Kansas City, MO
July 14-16: Wichita, KS
july 17-20: Santa Fe, NM
July 21-25: Sedona, AZ
July 26-30: San Diego, CA
July 31 - August 4: Los Angeles, CA
August 5-11: San Francisco, CA

The symbolism of ending this in San Francisco couldn't be more obvious. After all, a lot of the people heading this up cut their teeth in the Jesus Movement, and to them San Francisco is the tenth level of hell. This statement on their Web site pretty much sums up their mentality:

In 1967, over 100,000 young people aged 17 - 25 converged in San Francisco for a wild spree of drugs, casual sex and Eastern mysticism that became known as the “Summer of Love.”

When they later returned home to cities in Europe and across America, they brought with them the hippie lifestyle along with its rejection of authority and moral values, and they literally shifted global culture in a matter of months! The effects of this counter-cultural rebellion on society are still with us today…

Forty years are over and we believe it’s time for a new generation to step into their destiny and experience a “Summer of Real Love,” God’s love!

And they make it demonstratably obvious that their goal is to preach at gays and lesbians along the way:

We felt a strong mandate from the Lord that we were to do another RedRiders Tour this summer launching out of Nashville, but that this time we were to open it up and invite hundreds of youth to join us to travel in their own vehicles and worship and pray across America!

One of our staff members heard this and had an internal vision of a convoy of cars streaming out of Nashville on their way to San Francisco. These cars were brightly painted in artistic ways, very similar to the way hippies used to decorate their vans.

Three days after she shared this impression with a friend, a girl in another state who knew nothing of this contacted us to share that she had a dream of the exact same thing! In her dream she saw hundreds of cars and vans with psychedelic art traveling across America to San Francisco… and when they got there, they brought great healing to the homosexual community!

And of course, we know what these guys' idea of healing is. As a pentecostal/charismatic Christian Dem who knows these guys' language, I'm particularly outraged.

This calls for action ... counterdemonstrations (peaceful, of course), flyers, whatever. Especially if you live in the areas they're due to visit.