by Hilary White
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Battle Cry for a Generation is a Christian evangelization project started by a young Texas minister working against the degeneration of modern popular culture and its effects on young people. The group says that a “stealthy enemy” has corrupted the youth of America with a highly sexualized media and corporate culture that contributes to underage sex, drug use and suicide.
“Corporations, media conglomerates and purveyors of popular culture have spent billions to seduce and enslave our youth,” the group’s website says.
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Battle Cry has organized a series of rallies around the US that feature rock music bands with a Christian message and speeches intended to inspire teenagers to “retake” the culture. The Group’s next stop is Detroit, April 7-8.
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The group’s rally in San Francisco sold out with 25,000 attendees. “We’re sick and tired of pop culture telling us it’s cool to sleep around, dress like tramps, get high on drugs and alcohol, and behave badly,” said 18-year-old Amanda Hughey from Orange County.
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“Life is not MTV, and if we continue to live like we’re starring in those outrageous music videos, our generation is doomed,” Hughey said.
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The group is especially concerned with the effect on teens of MTV, the music video television network that has been called thinly disguised soft-core pornography by Christian leaders. Battle Cry quotes a report by the Parents Television Council, 2004 that showed MTV exposes children and teens to an average of 9 sexual scenes per hour and more than 8 un-bleeped profanities per hour.
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“It’s ‘virtue terrorism’ and teens have had enough!” said Battle Cry’s organizer, Ron Luce.
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The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, citing the city’s tradition of “tolerance,” issued a statement condemning the rally as an “act of provocation” by the “anti-gay,”“anti-choice” organization. Despite the sold-out venue and the enthusiastic response of the young people, the Board accused the rally of attempting to “negatively influence the politics of America’s most tolerant and progressive city.”
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Tolerance, however, is reserved in San Francisco for those who agree with the sexual revolution and leftist political viewpoint. Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said Battle Cry’s “intolerance” of sexual promiscuity, pornography, the drug culture and homosexual deviance is “obnoxious” and “disgusting” and should, therefore, not be tolerated. “They should get out of San Francisco,” he said.
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SF Gate, the online Christian news source, quotes an organizer with Not In Our Name, an Oakland-based extreme left anti-war group, saying, “There is a real intolerancy (sic) to homosexuality in a lot of these organizations.”
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On Wednesday last week, the Board of Supervisors issued a similar declaration of official intolerance of Christian and traditional values. The Board said William Cardinal Levada’s instruction that Catholic Charities of San Francisco cease turning children over to homosexuals was “discriminatory and defamatory,” and “insulting.” They called Levada himself a “decidedly unqualified representative of his former home city.”
Earlier this year, when pro-life San Franciscans held a March for Life attended by thousands, the city again condemned the public expression of opposition to the abortion and euthanasia movement. A pro-life participant in the San Francisco march created a lengthy online photo essay which summarizes the counter-protester’s understanding of freedom of speech: “But who the hell do they think they are, saying that s___ here?”
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Read the website of Battle Cry for a Generation:
https://www.battlecry.com/
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View the photo essay:
https://www.zombietime.com/walk_for_life/
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