Be carefull who you support. Things are not always as they appear.
 
This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer. The so-called Christians are far from being Christian and far from being good citizens.
 

            Flaunting his faith, bullhorn in hand
 
            Michael Marcavage's tactics have brought the Lansdowne evangelist
            some legal scrapes - and national attention.
 
            By Kathy Boccella
 
            Inquirer Staff Writer
 

            The video shows a young man with a bullhorn and guitar surrounded by
            pink-T-shirted marchers blocking his way with large pink banners.
            The man presses on, negotiating with police as to where he and his
            followers can go. Finally, he lies down on the ground.
            "If they're going to eject us, they're going to work for it,"
            Michael Marcavage, of Lansdowne, said with a laugh while watching a
            video of the Oct. 10 ruckus at Outfest in Center City.
            The high-profile case has put Marcavage, a 25-year-old who looks
            like a baby-faced Keanu Reeves, on the national evangelical
            Christian radar. He's as in-demand for interviews, including Fox's
            O'Reilly Factor and ABC's Good Morning America, as a televangelist
            with a tell-all book.
            As founder of Repent America, a conservative Christian organization,
            Marcavage has clashed with many different groups, including
            homosexuals, non-Christians, and his own family.
            "There's always a battle between darkness and light," he said in an
            interview this week in the spacious home where he lives alone.
            That battle has defined his life so far - and may get him a lengthy
            prison term if he is convicted of criminal charges from the
            gay-pride event. It's also, he believes, how he'll get into heaven.
            But others say he is spreading hate, not the word of God.
            "Hate has many faces," said Kevin Lee, an openly gay Lansdowne
            Borough councilman who has faced off with Marcavage.
            •
            Marcavage founded Repent America after graduating from Temple
            University with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2001. But the
            seeds of his ministry began long before that.
            He grew up in Simpson, a blue-collar town near Scranton. His mother
            died when he was 3, an event that "propelled me to search for
            meaning in my life."
            That search took him from Catholicism to more fundamentalist beliefs
            while he was still in high school, where he was involved in theater,
            Boy Scouts and community service.
            As a senior he created such a stir when a teacher wanted to show the
            groundbreaking episode of the sitcom Ellen, in which the main
            character says she is a lesbian, that the principal was quoted in
            the local paper calling him a "religious zealot."
            Then in college, when the theater department staged Terrence
            McNally's Corpus Christi, which depicts a gay Jesus figure, Temple
            officials said Marcavage became so distraught during a Nov. 2, 1999,
            meeting with a university vice president that they ordered a
            psychiatric evaluation.
            Marcavage maintains that he was calm and has a doctor's report to
            prove it, and he has sued the vice president and a campus security
            official for unlawfully restraining him.
            During college he switched career paths, from journalism to
            religious ministry, and now sees himself going into politics or
            starting a church. He runs Repent America from his home with income
            from three rental properties and donations from Christian groups.
            In a short time, Marcavage's free-floating outrage has resulted in
            nearly as many lawsuits and confrontations as a rosary has beads. In
            San Francisco, he was arrested for protesting same-sex marriage. In
            Bridgeport, Conn., he sued police after they stopped him for driving
            a truck plastered with pictures of fetuses. In Springfield, Delaware
            County, he scuffled with police at an abortion rally - and won a
            $2,500 settlement from the township.
            Chris Purdom, of Philadelphia, remembers Marcavage shouting into a
            bullhorn, setting off sirens, and asking personal, sexual questions
            at a gay Christian event in August at Holy Trinity Church on
            Rittenhouse Square.
            "He yells at people at Christian services, and he's now claiming
            he's being persecuted for being a Christian," said Purdom, a
            Presbyterian elder.
            That's not what happened, Marcavage said. "I was simply preaching
            the Gospel." He says he did turn on sirens to get people's attention.
            Brian Fahling of the American Family Association, which provides
            free legal services, said Marcavage "takes the First Amendment
            seriously and also takes being a law-abiding citizen seriously."
            And his friend, Jason Storm, a fellow evangelist, said that
            Marcavage is "a good man" who once took in a homeless man for a week
            and got him a job.
            Most people react negatively to his preaching, Marcavage
            acknowledged, but once in a while someone sees the light. On a
            mantle in his living room is a framed letter from a woman thanking
            him for preaching in the parking lot of a strip club near Scranton.
            •
            He's had less success in his current hometown. When he moved to
            Landsowne three years ago, he didn't know it had a growing gay and
            lesbian community.
            "God's providence" brought him there, he said. "There's a lot to do
            in that town."
            Part of that work is keeping out more homosexuals. At a Borough
            Council meeting in July, he brought the issue up and began reading
            from the Bible. The council president adjourned the meeting, and
            Marcavage was later arrested for refusing to leave the building.
            Said Lansdowne Councilman Lee: "The Bible is a beautiful and
            complicated document, and it can be interpreted any way you want. I
            don't know who christened him the one to do that for all of us."
            Marcavage also has had run-ins with residents. When John Kerry
            visited a Lansdowne home during his presidential campaign, Marcavage
            got into a scrap with the homeowner's daughter, who squirted him
            with a hose. He's suing.
            And he got kicked by a woman at a Methodist Church for denouncing
            the then-pastor's "false teachings."
            "It's such an unconscionable, unethical way to live," said the Rev.
            Timothy Thomson-Hohl, the new pastor of Trinity Lansdowne United
            Methodist Church. "For someone who's supposed to be Christian, it's
            appalling."
            One minister whom Marcavage is in accord with is the Rev. Craig
            Stephen White, a fiery Philadelphia street preacher who was
            convicted in March of trying to solicit sex from a West Chester
            teenager.
            Marcavage put up his house as collateral for White's bail, testified
            as a character witness, and offered a reward on his Web site for
            information leading to White's acquittal.
            "I believe he's innocent," said Marcavage, who met White at Temple.
            "I've been charged with many crimes, and I've been acquitted later
            on."
            •
            Next week, Repent America will take its antiabortion road show to
            Washington, hoping to steal some of the spotlight from the
            inauguration.
            It won't come as a surprise if there's a dust-up, an arrest, a
            lawsuit. It may or may not save souls, but it's a great way to stoke
            a ministry or start a political career.
            "People are headed to eternal damnation. I'm out there warning them
            that there are consequences," Marcavage said. "We're all going to
            stand judgment before God."