500 gay rights supporters protest outside Focus (on Family in CO)

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JUDITH KOHLER
May 1, 2005

COLORADO SPRINGS - About 500 people braved spitting snow showers Sunday outside Focus on the Family's headquarters to protest the group's campaign against homosexual rights and same-sex marriage.

"We are here to say, Jim, we love you enough to stop you from doing the damage you are doing to families across the nation," said Mel White, executive director of Soulforce, a national interfaith organization that supports gay rights and is supported by roughly 100 churches and groups. <snip>

Speaking to the crowd that included gay and lesbian couples, White called Focus on the Family "a toxic religion zone." <snip>

Despite the weather it was a festive atmosphere with several strands of rainbow colored balloons and music and people eating hotdogs. <snip>

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