[TBC: Excerpts from an eyewitness account of a homosexual demonstration
outside a Boston church hosting an ex-gay conference. The personal account
(along with extensive photo coverage) is from a Massachusetts family group
seeking to resist the growing homosexual agenda which has found a favorable
environment in the Northeast.]

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (OCTOBER 29, 2005) As hundreds of people from across
Massachusetts came to the Tremont Temple Baptist Church to attend a widely
acclaimed conference on recovering from homosexuality through a relationship
with God, angry and enraged homosexual activists converged outside to
intimidate and terrorize them.

The all-day conference, titled "Love Won Out" featured renowned lecturers,
many of whom had left the homosexual lifestyle and were married in
heterosexual relationships. Major themes included theology and relationships
with God, as well as practical information for those struggling with
homosexuality or who know people who are in that situation.

But outside, homosexual activists gathered before 8 am and stayed until that
evening when the conference ended. They were joined by more activists as the
day went on, including many who apparently came from an anti-war rally on
the Boston Common.

They did whatever they could to harass and intimidate the attendees,
including waving signs, yelling and screaming, and later they even brought a
sound truck. Some of the activists went up to a few of the individual
attendees and took close up photos at them, taunting them personally.

The homosexual demonstrators also set up two coffins right in front of the
church with pro-homosexual epithets written on them.

According to City of Boston officials, they did not have a permit to
demonstrate outside the church, use sound equipment or props, or block
traffic for that purpose.

Boston police, nevertheless, stood aside and allowed the demonstrators to do
pretty much whatever they wanted. At times they even cooperated with the
activists, chatting with them, directing traffic for them, and finally
allowing them to completely block the street. The police department later
informed us that there were no arrests, despite the near-riot behavior and
the apparent breaking of laws regarding demonstrating without a permit and
disrupting a religious event.

On the other hand, police were abrupt and unfriendly toward attendees. As
one woman told us, when she asked the police about the sound truck that was
disturbing the conference inside: "I asked a very curt, unfriendly
policewoman why they weren't getting the truck to move on the road, why they
were letting it just sit there, and she snarled there was nothing they could
do. It must have gone on for at least 10 or 15 minutes, maybe more."

When the police were asked if the demonstrators had a permit, they refused
to answer. It appeared to people we talked to that the demonstrators were
given special consideration, to say the least. They did nothing to stop or
even control what was going on.

Ignored by media.

In the Boston media over the following days, the only reference to this
horrific incident we could find were two sentences buried at the end of
another article, on page B6 [of the Boston Globe]

From Sunday morning's "Boston Globe":

...[S]ome demonstrators stopped outside a conference at the Tremont Street
Baptist Church that sought to encourage gays and lesbians to become
heterosexuals. Some protesters chanted "Shut it down," and one waved a sign
that read, "Thank God we're gay."

This was the entirety of the "Boston Globe's" coverage of this near-riot:
two sentences on page B6, at the end of an article about an anti-war
demonstration that happened the same day. "The Boston Herald" had no
coverage at all on this, nor, to our knowledge, did any of the other Boston
media (http://www.article8.org).