Gay baiting

Tomorrow at 11 a.m., at-large Council candidate Roy Owens plans a march, starting at Humboldt Avenue and Seaver Street, to protest things he considers major threats to children - including homosexuality.

Eeka is organizing a counter-protest:

The bottom line is that this is an organizing of people who think that the problems in the community are caused by GLBT folks. If we and our allies come join them, we can show them that we care enough about the community to get up on a Saturday morning and show up. If no one shows up or only a few of us show up, then we will have a group of people who will keep on thinking that GLBT folks are against the community.

The counter-protesters plan to meet at 10:30 in Franklin Park, at the play structure with the pointed roofs, right off of Seaver Street, between Humboldt and Elm Hill Avenues.

Derek says Owens reminds him of a child throwing a tantrum:

You know that if Farrakhan is changing his ways (on gays) that says a lot about the general shift happening in the Black community. Mark my words, folks, in no time Owens will be consigned to Black history. ...