Notoriously anti-gay Dove World Outreach Center leader Terry Jones urged his followers to protest a “Pansexuality Fetish Party” at Firestone live, but the demonstration was more of a fizzle when none of the Dove protestors showed up.
10-15 counterprotestors made an appearance March 9 at the corner of Amelia Street and Orange Ave, but the Dove group apparently switched their protest to March 16, the day of the planned party.
“Downtown Orlando is promoting the March 16th opening of a Gay Sex Fetish Club with bill boards posted along the main highways,” read a media release from the Dove Outreach Center. “Would you want to explain this to your child on the way to Disney World?”
The billboard depicts a woman on her hands and knees, being led on a leash by another woman. The party’s organizers say it’s all in good fun.
“I’d like to say first and foremost, we’re protesting Terry Jones because we have every right as consenting adults to do behaviors within the legal parameter and that’s all that ‘yknotevents’ is doing, is letting adults in a consensual way have a good time,” said Ari Dennis, media liaison for yknotevents.
Dove’s media release put an anti-gay spin on the event, stating: “They are calling it Pansexuality but what it really is is another way for gay culture to reach out and influence your youth and tell them that it’s normal to have another person of the same sex wrapped in chains or sodomized.”
A Facebook event promoting the protest has more than 200 attendees as of presstime, but many of the commenters are opting to post pro-gay messages.
