It was 10 minutes before Sunday’s service at St. Paul United Methodist Church when the amplified hell-and-brimstone squad arrived at its steps.
St. Paul’s is a 118-year-old church built by Confederate sympathizers in Atlanta’s Grant Park, now a tight-knit, well-to-do, progressive neighborhood. It’s the kind of place where “No Place For Hate” signs are planted in well-kept lawns. And the church, which touts itself as LGBT-inclusive, fits in well.
That’s why the protesters came. A small biracial crowd of about five has for the past year made the rounds to numerous intown churches to loudly let them know, with a microphone and signs, that they are an abomination…