Comments on: Adam Hood’s tour goes ahead

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:18:54 +0000

Adam hood is currently in school for fashion design at City College San Francisco. It is a laugh you should see him. He is just as Nelly as can be....Question why would he get involved with fashion design...answer to stay close to the network...to live vicariously through other gays. What do you think they would say if they saw this video? How is he going to work with gays in the design industry when he thinks we are an abomination? It is worse than you think. He is also an evangelist. On his site he has a religious tantrum http://24hourbride.wordpress.com/ he claims to have prayed to stop the Halloween celebration on Castro here in San Francisco. Also the church he is connected to is the Dwelling place http://www.dwellingplacechurch.org/ this is a church in Hemet California. They are the ones that stand around gay establishments with signs making claims about the bible and homosexuals.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:13:42 +0000

Oh what a conflict and mis-representation of demonination. For many decades MCC has belonged to “Metropolitan Community Church”, a fully accepting church of the GLBTI community. Then all of a sudden it is linked to “Miracle Christian Centre” which as you read is totally not accepting….

I think we should refuse to call this church MCC as it is discrediting the accepting denomination.

By: kate

kate — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:45:33 +0000

We know this couple personally. Wonderfully warm people. They are just sharing their story of what God did in their lives. It’s not hate speech or prejudice. They LOVE gays, they are simply sharing that out of God’s LOVE, He changes our hearts, heals our past wounds, transforms us from the inside out. People’s pain from our past can lead us into all sorts of coping mechanisms and strange lifestyles. Hood is sharing that there is HEALING through Jesus and transformation. But in order to walk into that new way of living one has to “Repent” aka “do a 180 and chose to change their ways”. And I must add that his wife is a wonderful and dynamic person as well. This article made judgments on her “sitting in the back quietly”… painting in her a certain light. Yet another example of a reporter/writer getting something wrong and painting the wrong picture.

By: Lee B

Lee B — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:29:33 +0000

Is this even legal ? I would have thought this would be classified as hate speech and inciting prejudice, homophobic violence etc ?

By: PAUL MARTIN

PAUL MARTIN — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:40:32 +0000

I am a gay psychologist who has had a great deal to do with this situation. It makes great sense that it went ‘underground’ and for me this felt quite ok. As they say in their article, it was contained to a small congregation. We are not vigilantes and against freedom of speech. The great victory we as a community had with this issue was that it was no longer a public meeting where many new vulnerable people would be exposed to this irrational anti-intellectual and potentially psychologically very dangerous message. Other great victories included the Catholic School that originally was going to unwittingly sponsor this event putting a post on their website saying that they are not homophobic and that Adam Hood’s message is against their Christian values. Any young Christian same sex attracted person would feel great comfort in reading this.
The other victory was that very publicly 2 Mayors shut down the events as they hadn’t realized what it was about. This has sent a very powerful message that Australian society as a whole does not validate horrifically dangerous and homophobic events.