Speaking of Hate Speech:

Above is a video of the Rev. Scott Lively speaking overseas.  He's telling this story in his own way:

http://www.jewsonfirst.org/07c/sacto_murder_update.html

A quote from the above link (from the DA's summary):

Satender Singh was part of a group Fijian East Indian men and women who spent the day at Lake Natoma Park. Vusik and Shevchenko were part of a separate group that also spent the day at the park, near the Fijian East Indian group. The group with Vusik and Shevchenko believed they saw Singh behaving in a homosexual manner towards other male members of the Fijian East Indian group. During the course of the day, Vusik and Shevchenko made racial and ethnic slurs directed at the Fijian group, and homosexual slurs directed at Singh.

Around 8:00 p.m., Singh’s group prepared to leave the park. Vusik and Schevchenko approached Singh’s group, which was sitting at a picnic table. They demanded an apology from Singh, which Singh refused to give. Vusik then threw a cup of beer into the face of a member of Singh’s group, and threw one punch at Singh, hitting him in the face. Singh fell over backwards, hitting his head on a concrete walkway. Vusik and Shevchenko ran from the scene. Singh suffered a brain injury and was pronounced dead on July 5.

Here is a link to a home video taken by Singh's group that day.  While they were loud, and boistrous, and I could see how someone might consider them to be distracting or annoying, their behavior does not even begin to approach "offensive" or "indecent", and is certainly not something that you have to kill someone for; to "protect the children".

http://www.outsacramento.com/Satendar_group_home_video_at_lake_natoma.flv

Here is the memorial service, where a bunch of people got together and processed the events of the story:

One of these things is not like the other.  Rev. Lively's speech has people cheering and clapping at the death of an innocent man, and the escape of his alleged killer.  Furthermore, it casts the audience and Christians as the "true victims" and the murdered man as the villian/perpetrator.  Sick sick sick.

On the other hand, you have the "heretical" (by fundie standards) liberal theologins from several faiths affirming the sanctity of life and the importance of forgiveness and love.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, when Rev. Lively says that he has been "working" with the Russian community in Sacremento....This is what he means by that.  Oh and lets not forget, that Rev. Lively is one of the authors of a book that claims that the Nazis were a homosexual movement.

Yeah...if Scott Lively is one of the sheep, I'll just stand over here...with the goats, thanks.