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Homosexuals and supporters
preparing to storm a church in
Madison where Ralph Ovadal and Scott
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April 12, 1996:
A Madison, Wisconsin church where author Scott Lively and Pastor
Ovadal are speaking is besieged by approximately four hundred homosexuals
and their supporters. The mob blocks off a street, trespasses on church
property, bangs on garbage can lids with mallets, throws rocks at the
church windows, and chants things such as "Bring back the
lions!" and "You cannot escape us!" Several who gain
entrance to the church urinate on the bathroom floor and disrupt the
program with curses and filthy language.
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Lesbian Avengers disrupting WCU
event in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. |
Rather than restore order, police ask Pastor Ovadal to
cancel the event, claiming they do not "have enough manpower" to
restrain the unruly mob of trespassers. A Christian couple who leave in
fear sees a large number of police officers standing by in a nearby park,
apparently ready in case things get life-threatening and they have no
choice but to offend the "gay community" by intervening. At the
end of the meeting, police secret Pastor Ovadal out the darkened exit away
from the mob and whisk him off in an unmarked squad car. No charges are
issued against any of the homosexuals or their supporters. An off-duty
Madison firefighter later tells Pastor Ovadal that he spotted several
lesbian firefighters in the crowd outside the church.
Homosexual activists dog Lively and Pastor Ovadal in
three other Wisconsin cities in which they speak during the same weekend,
trying in each instance to disrupt, if not cancel, each event. WCU has
extensive video tape footage to verify the facts just related.
May 1, 1996:
Pastor Ovadal is present on the public sidewalk in Madison, Wisconsin
holding a Bible and handing out the Christian tract "Homosexuality:
The Truth" to citizens attending a meeting concerning whether or not
a pictorial display of so-called "gay and lesbian" families
should be put on exhibit in Hawthorne Elementary School.
Standing beside him is a friend holding a large sign reading
"Homosexuality Is Wrong." At one point, Pastor Ovadal asks a man
passing by what he thinks of the message on the sign. In response, the man
first attempts to rip up the sign and then knocks Pastor Ovadal
unconscious. A responding officer calls the attack, which lands Pastor
Ovadal in an emergency room, a "life-threatening" assault;
arrests the man; and charges him with "substantial battery."
The day before the trial of Pastor Ovadal's assailant, the D.A. calls to
inform Ovadal that there will be no trial because his attacker's charges
are being dropped from substantial battery to an ordinance violation
because he "does not want to have a criminal record." Pastor
Ovadal continues to suffer neck and leg pain from the brutal attack which
is fully documented with police reports.
The following was given in testimony by Robert Knight, who at the time was
director of Cultural Studies at the Family Research Council, before the
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
on May 11, 1999 during hearings on the Federal Hate Crime Prevention Act
of 1999 http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/51199rhk.htm:
"There is evidence that 'hate crimes' laws are not enforced
equitably. In Madison, Wisconsin, Ralph Ovadal, a pastor and founder of
Wisconsin Christians United, was physically attacked in 1996 while
protesting a pro-homosexuality photo display at a public school. . . .
According to a medical report, the assault caused 'abrasions, contusions
and an injured ankle.' The assailant was never charged with a 'hate
crime,' despite the existence of a strong 'hate crime' law on the books of
Madison, a liberal college town. The attacker eventually bargained down a
misdemeanor battery charge to an ordinance violation, comparable to a
traffic ticket."
August, 1996:
The Monroe Police Department and the FBI investigate a series of
threatening letters mailed to Pastor Ovadal by a sodomite satanic group
calling itself "Gate Keeper." The letters contain not only very
graphic threats against Pastor Ovadal and Christians in general but also
black feathers and other ritual objects. They are sealed with a satanic
wax seal.
July 28, 1997:
Pastor Ovadal is assaulted in Hudson, Wisconsin by a known homosexual who
attempts to stun gun him. Police arrest the man with the stun gun, but no
trial has ever taken place from the incident.
September 10, 1997:
While literature dropping with his daughter in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, a
known homosexual activist recognizes Pastor Ovadal; stops his car in the
middle of the street, blocking traffic; bolts from the vehicle; and begins
to scream obscenities at Ovadal while swinging his fists wildly. Police at
first decline to issue the man a ticket due to the fact that he "is
gay and has a hard time." Residents in nearby homes who witness the
event help convince the very reluctant police to give the man a disorderly
conduct ticket, which is later dropped.
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Pastor Ovadal being arrested in
Fort Atkinson for
holding a sign which says, "Christ Can Set
You Free." |
On the same day, Pastor Ovadal is arrested for standing
on the public sidewalk holding a sign which says, "Christ Can Set You
Free." Ovadal is charged with loitering and resisting or interfering
with a police officer doing his official duty. While the police confront
Pastor Ovadal, a car with pro-gay bumper stickers circles the block. After
the arrest, Fort Atkinson police claim Ovadal was blocking the sidewalk
and not allowing pedestrians to pass, a claim which a video tape of the
incident disproves. Over a year and several legal briefs later, a judge
drops all charges against Pastor Ovadal.
June, 1998:
A WCU billboard posted near the homosexual district in Madison is
destroyed twice in two weeks, and a nearby WCU billboard is destroyed
once. After the first board is wreaked the second time, Pastor Ovadal
notifies Madison police that he is hiring a private investigator to stake
out the scene in hope of identifying the perpetrator. Pastor Ovadal tells
police to make them aware of what is happening and to assure them that the
P.I. will work with them. Within hours, the press calls to ask WCU about
the stake-out. A reporter tells Pastor Ovadal that the police leaked plans
to catch the vandals to the media. Needless to say, the perpetrators were
never caught; but at least the destruction stopped.
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Vandalized WCU billboards in Madison, Wisconsin. |
February 17, 1999:
Following an earlier rash of Anthrax threats to abortion clinics around
the country, WCU's Monroe office receives an envelope containing a
substantial amount of a white powder. The local police tell Pastor Ovadal
that there is nothing they can do about it; and if it is Anthrax, he and
his family will "be dead by this time tomorrow anyway."
After an abortion clinic in Milwaukee receives an Anthrax threat the next
day, resulting in a massive police and media response, a third party calls
the FBI about the letter WCU had received and had subsequently turned into
the local post office. Pastor Ovadal is immediately interviewed by a very
concerned agent, but has not to this day been informed of the results of
the tests that the agent said they would certainly do on the powder.
Several calls to the FBI produced no response.
(This incident is documented in the 1999 WMD Terrorism Chronology,
Monterrey Institute of International Studies, at http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol07/72/wmdchr72.htm.)
Pastor Ovadal has also received other substances through the mail, such as
cat manure, and has had lewd objects put in his family's mailbox.
2001:
A phone call in which a threat is made to burn down Pastor Ovadal's
church is investigated by the Green County Sheriff's Department.
February 13, 2002:
A letter threat against a WCU worker is investigated by the Green County
Sheriff's Department.
March 18, 2002:
Homosexuals visit Pastor Ovadal's church in the middle of the night
and attach handmade rainbow flags to the church fence. The intruders are
chased away by a dog before they accomplish anything else.
January 29, 2003:
A phoned in death threat against Pastor Ovadal is investigated by the
Omaha, Nebraska Police Department's homicide unit.
December 9, 2003
As police in Galena, Illinois watch, a young man spews out obscenity
at Pastor Ovadal and then attacks him with a five-foot stick which is
three inches in diameter. At the time, Pastor is holding a sign which
reads, "Christ can set you free." He is standing beside a banner
which reads, "Homosexuality is sin." Pastor's assailant hits him
in the knee with enough force to shatter the solid wooden stick in three
pieces! Police then amble across the street and place the young man under
arrest, but he is not charged with battery but rather with only disorderly
conduct! Apparently, in Galena, Illinois, it is against the law to
"cause a disturbance" by hitting a Christian pastor with a club!
Several weeks before at a similar picket, police watched as a young woman
spray painted a WCU banner. In that case, police refused even to issue a
ticket to the vandal. It remains to be seen if the young man who
"kneecapped" Pastor Ovadal will ever go to trial.
On a regular basis, Pastor Ovadal and WCU receive
threats via phone, e-mail, and letter which are not turned over to the
police due to the improbability of catching the perpetrators and the time
considerations regarding such an attempt. Below is a small sample of such
threats:
"You people make the Nazis look like loving, compassionate, caring
human beings. And pastor Ralph Ovadal, what a sad excuse for a human being
you are. You say you have been knocked unconscious, been stun gunned, spit
on, had things thrown at you and been threatened hundreds of times. I hope
one of those threats comes true very soon as the world does NOT need
people like you. There is no reason why you should be allowed to live in
it. None at all! You breed hate. May you be kidnaped, raped, murdered and
then put into a barrel of sulfuric acid. Hopefully soon. Merry
Christmas."
-E-mail
"If you ever come to my house again, I'll shoot you with a f------'
shotgun!"
-Call received by WCU
"Do not leave this type of bull---- on my door ever again
('bull----': an English word used to describe your pamphlet). . . . We are
a society of conformity; if you don't like us get out of our way, if you
are not like us we will destroy you. . . . "
-E-mail
"Arrest Wisconsin Christians United Council of Bigots!"
-E-mail
"God will strike thee down for the hate you try to spread. Stay in
Monroe where your hate and babbling are accepted. Hate mongers like you
will soon receive the proper wrath of those more tolerant and Christian.
You will receive your punishment - soon. Stop spreading your trash and
hate. I can't stand you and your beliefs but I tolerate it - for a short
time longer."
-E-mail
"WCU - we're onto you, and we're a lot closer than you think."
-E-mail
"Now that DOMA passed, remember to watch your un-Christian mouths. Be
careful not to offend the gay community. Homophobia won't be tolerated.
The choice is yours. I will hold you personally responsible."
-Letter
"I would thank you only to keep your brainwashed zealots from their
spineless delivery of such tripe to my door step. . . . I'll sick the dogs
on you!"
-E-mail
"I have two hands, two feet. I can fight. . . . I am a Gay Nazi. A
skin-head. I've dedicated my energies to confronting the injustices people
like you persist in doing. Show your ugly head. . . . I can give you a
beating. . . . Sieg Heil."
-Letter
"I do not want to see anymore of these hateful/anti-Christian
pamphlets on my doorstep otherwise I will personally come down to Monroe
and shove it down your throats or up your a--. . . . I never want to see
your swill on my doorstep ever again or I might have to make a little
visit to Monroe. (And I WILL, guaranteed!)"
-Letter
"You a-- h---s, put this s--t on my door again and I will personally
hunt you down and crush your skull under my front tire. Burn in hell you,
----."
-Letter
"Hey a-- h---s, if you ever put another one of these on my door step,
I will kill you . . . in fact, I'll have a gun ready and loaded waiting
for your dumb a--! Being gay is acceptable . . . to me, and 98% of
society! You'll go to hell for snooping in others' business! HA! HA! HA!
to you, ---- ----! F--- you, f--- your mom, f--- your dad. Burn in HELL!!!
P.S. I'll be praying that you all get cancer or AIDS!"
-Letter
"Silence WCU!!! . . . Incinerate WCU sanctuaries. Break up WCU
crowds. . . . Ban WCU radio ad campaign. . . . Mass possess WCU leaders. .
. . WCU members machine gunned down. . . . Implode WCU. . . . Kidnap
Ralph. . . . Exterminate entire WCU membership. . . . WCU's absolute
annihilation 'tis necessary! . . . Sue WCU to pick clean Christian bones.
. . . Take bold dramatic stands against WCU!!! . . . Click in uzi clips.
Hit WCU weak points. . . . Trail WCU activists. . . . Booby trap WCU
gatherings."
-From the Satanist group Gatekeeper, postmarked Madison, WI
"You're going to wind up in a box six feet under, or you're going to
wind up in the county jail. You got that, you f-----g Christian a--
h--e?"
-Excerpted from a message left on WCU's phone answering machine
". . . So you must realize there is a risk. For every action there is
a reaction, and they are not always proportionate in the minds of either
side. I don't mind your gullibility when it doesn't interfere with
reality. However, you are confronting the savages among men, and as a
savage, I have an option to act as such. Whether or not I do may depend on
any number of things. Free will again. Very unstable isn't it? Who am I? I
could be every fifth person you see at a demonstration. Or every tenth
person. You just never know. Keep that in mind when making an unwelcome
intrusion into the life of a stranger."
-E-mail
"You put the wrong literature on the wrong piece of private property.
The fact you use a 'PO Box' describes in volumes you are gutless and can
not face human life of any kind on any judgment day. Please - come to our
gay pride celebration here in the Twin Cities - raise your ignorant signs
- I will be there and you will feel my wrath. If you set foot on my
property - again - and spill hatred, threaten me, I will be there on your
judgment day and spit on your face."
-E-mail
"May all you sick and twisted m----r f-----s be struck down by the
biggest f-----g lightning bolt that your god can muster and may your
toilet-hole for a church be swept away in a f-----g flood that carries all
your sorry a---s with it."
-E-mail
"The next m----r-f-----g time you put ANYTHING in my mail box I will
personally hunt you down and . . . [too graphic]."
-E-mail
"If I get one more f-----g pamphlet on my door like this, I am going
to find the person who put it there, I am going to hunt them down, and I
am going to beat the living s--t out of them. You people are f---ed up.
You people are wrong; and if you want to know the truth, I will put the
fear of God into you. I am so mad, so mad. Go to hell."
-Excerpted from a message left on WCU's phone answering machine
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:14 PM
Name: sidd
City: cross plains
State: Wisconsin
Country: america m----r f-----s
Email: f---you@yahoo.com
Subject: f--- you you stupid homophobes
Message: you guys are the biggest group of misunderstanding pieces of s---
i have ever met, if it were up to me i'd beat all of your m----r f-----g
faces in with a bat and watch and laugh as you guys bleed to death on the
cold pavement. you all deserve to burn in hell, if anyone should be
discriminated against it's you a--h---s, get a life, get some tolerance,
think for once m----r f-----s
-E-mail "You
------- homophobic -------- mother -------! You EVER come to my
house again with this -------- 'information' i'll beat the living
----outa you. You ------- -------- are the reason GOD IS DEAD~ he
cant stand --------- like you. Really hope you find the courage to come
out of your own closet you ------- freak. Now go ----yourself, then do us
all a favor and put the shotgun in your mouth and pull the ------- trigger.
Faggot . . . COWARD!!!!! HYPOCRITE!!!!!! Kill yourself!!"
-E-mail "THE
NEXT G--D-- TIME YOU SEND THIS S--- TO OUR HOUSE I WILL EXTERMINATE
YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU PEOPLE ARE A CANCER THAT MUST BE REMOVED!
. . . GO TO H---!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
-Letter
And so
it goes, on and on and on . . . you get the picture.
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