Will Rev. RONALD RAWLS, JR., take down this hate-Gays video? I'm offended. How about you? Notice the large container of sugary drinks that the histrionic, history-destroying Rev. RAWLS is selling, over his right shoulder? What kind of minister makes money from selling diabetes to his flock, even as he advances an anti-Gay, anti-history agenda?
Here's how "President Josiah Bartlet," a fictional Aaron Sorkin character in The West Wing, responded to anti-Gay bigotry:
Here's how "Will McAvoy," a fictional Aaron Sorkin character in The Newsroom, responded to anti-Gay bigotry:
Here's how I responded to Rev. RONALD RAWLS, JR. -- no response -- as Wm F. Buckley, Jr. once said, "Why does baloney reject the grinder?":
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: ronrawls
Sent: Wed, Aug 30, 2017 6:01 pm
Subject: Rev. Ronald Rawls, Jr.: Remove your 70 minute anti-Gay marriage YouTube video, please
Dear Rev. Rawls:
1. Please remove and take down your offensive, inauthentic, inflammatory, insensitive anti-Gay marriage YouTube video, which foments hatred. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZybdlZ6llc
2. I was honored to be invited to write the first article on Gay marriage in an American Bar Association publication in 1991 after successfully representing the plaintiff in Duane Rinde v. Woodward & Lothrop Co., establishing the right to equal discount benefits for Gay partner's spouses at 30 department stores in Washington, D.C. and six states. I would be willing to discuss this with you and your congregation.
3. Whatever possessed you to put up hate speech on YouTube after our Supreme Court, President Barack Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden, supported our constitutional right to Gay marriage? The Supreme Court and President Obama addressed a legal issue. Your remarks were intolerant, if quoted correctly. See St Augustine Record article on June 26, 2013. http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2013-06-26/some-gay-ruling-great-others-its-awful
4. Your response to a Supreme Court constitutional rights decision -- a strictly legal matter -- was uncouth and unkind; Rev. Rawls, you were quoted in The St. Augustine Record about "sin issues" at a time when Rev. Dudley Waver and other local church leaders spoke out with acceptance, kindness, dignity and grace, recognizing the landmark Supreme Court decision was a matter of "secular law," just as St. Augustine City Commission did on December 10, 2012 (when preacher Doug Russo, whom you invited to speak on August 21, 2017, said Gays should be put to death because its's in the Bible.
5. Likewise, your YouTube video offends GLBTQ people: it and shows no compassion, no scholarship and very bad judgement.
6. Why do you indulge in hate speech about both Gays and monuments to Civil War veterans, while claiming God told you to demolish an historic building for parking?
7. Rev. Rawls, how can you claim "moral" leadership in light of your homophobia, your demolition of 2/3 of historic Echo House (after selling most of its roof tiles), your plans to demolish the rest of Echo House, and your demagogic demand to remove two (2) Civil War soldier monuments in Our Nation's Oldest City, St. Augustine (including one on City property and one on State of Florida property, administered by the University of Florida)? Please call me to discuss.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
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