How many scary black guns can you pack into downtown Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on Monday night?...

answer?

Definitely over five hundred.

And that's not counting the side arms and shotguns.

Rumor was that antifa types were headed to our beautiful Coeur d'Alene downtown to plunder and riot.

It was not to be.

Local Brent Regan:

"Last night's "Gun d'Alene" was AMAZING! Thousands of citizens, the majority of them armed, turned out at the mere suggestion that Antifa anarchist thugs and/or Proud Boys radicals may be coming to cause trouble. You want to cause trouble in our town? Not just "No" but "Hell No!!". You are welcome to come. You are welcome to peacefully protest. But do anything stupid and it won't last 10 seconds.

...Armed citizens are the solution to the anarchy sweeping our cities. Armed citizens, NOT SWAT police armed with tear gas and rubber bullets. Armed citizens peacefully gathering in a show of community strength and resolve. The small town equivalent of an American Aircraft Carrier Battle Group letting people know that we have the means and resolve to ensure peace."

As night fell, the streets were lined with cars and trucks just having a fine ol' time cruising and enjoying the beautiful spring weather.

The antifa types scoped out the scene and decided maybe heading to Missoula, MT may be a better idea.

Proud to live in North Idaho!!

Photos from the Facecrap page of Liz Ehret Re - and we thank her.

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Good work City of Coeur d'Alene for making us the center of attention...

and it's not the good kind of attention.

The one exception is that now everyone knows how to spell Coeur d'Alene - which isn't easy.  Even after 27 years I still have to slow down and mentally say, "C, o, e, u, r, space, little d, no space, big A, lene.  The "lene" part is easy. 

In June of last year, the Coeur d'Alene city council passed an anti-discrimination bill making homosexuals a protected class against the will of the majority of the citizens.

They worried about homosexuals being denied access to restaurants or housing.  Really?  When the hell have they ever been denied a meal or an apartment?  I've lived here for 27 years and if that has happened, I sure never heard about it.

I'm well acquainted with the "boy's club" in this area,
 and they have never been subjected to discrimination.  Most own homes, have good jobs, or run their own successful businesses.   They have their own "gay" clubs and hangouts, including the elegant Clark House in Hayden, Idaho.  Try going there when they congregate and see who's really being discriminated against.

Visit any of them on Facebook and they are continually whining about their "rights" and people picking on them.  Seriously?  Not happening.  We've patronized their businesses for years, full well knowing that they were homosexuals, making many of them quite well off. 

The council poo-pooed the people who said it would be unfair to people who held religious beliefs which didn't include same-sex "marriage."

Fast track now and we see that very thing happening with The Hitching Post saga. 

This has gone so viral that it's managed to knock Ebola out of first place.

Allow me to say it again:

Good work, Coeur d'Alene... 

Now repeal that stupid ordinance!

More:

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Truth Revolt:   Ministers Risk Arrest for Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage Ceremony

Daily Caller:   Idaho City To Christian Pastors: Perform Same-Sex Weddings Or Face Jail

Alliance Defending Freedom: Govt tells Christian ministers: Perform same-sex weddings or face jail, fines

Cd'A Press:   Hitch in their beliefs

Self Evident Truths:   Why Same Sex Marriage Is Wrong - Part 3


and

A must read:

From Wintery Knight:
 

Coeur d’Alene city officials to pastors: perform gay marriages or face jail, fines.
First off, I credit Bible-centric pastors for failing to explain the issues of homosexuality and gay marriage in a way that their parishioners could make sense of it logically and evidentially. We never did that, so that’s why Christians had nothing to say to non-Christians when the issue came up OUTSIDE the church. We never learned from church leaders or our parents how to explain the problems with gay rights (Grindr app promiscuity, domestic violence, relationship instability, HIV spread, loss of free speech, loss of religious liberty, harm to children who are separated from their biological parents, etc.). All we learned to say at home and at church was “the Bible says”. That’s what 20 years of church prepares you to do. That’s what being raised in a Christian home prepares you to do.

“The Bible says” works great when you are a child in the Christian subculture, then you hit the university and it just dies. And pastors and parents know this, they just don’t care, because Christianity was like Santa Claus to them – it was about getting you to behave nicely as a child. It was never to make you kick ass like a William Lane Craig. It was never to make you into Stephen C. Meyer or an ADF attorney. It was just to make your parents’ life easier, as much as they try to cover it up with pious talk excusing them from their failed parenting effort.  read the rest

Government going after ministers in my home town of Coeur d' Alene, Idaho who refused to "marry" homosexuals...

and it's making national news.

Donald and Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers and owners of The Hitching Post, have been told by the city of Coeur d' Alene that they will have to preside over same sex marriages. The Hitching Post has been there for almost as long as we've lived here, which is 27 years.

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit and a motion for a temporary restraining order Friday to stop officials in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, from forcing two ordained Christian ministers to perform wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples.

City officials told Donald Knapp that he and his wife Evelyn, both ordained ministers who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel, are required to perform such ceremonies or face months in jail and/or thousands of dollars in fines. The city claims its “non-discrimination” ordinance requires the Knapps to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies now that the courts have overridden Idaho’s voter-approved constitutional amendment that affirmed marriage as the union of a man and a woman.   read the rest

Many of us knew it wouldn't take long for Cd'A's non-discrimination ordinance to cause problems. 

I live in Post Falls, but Cd'A, Post Falls, and Hayden, Idaho have pretty much become one contiguous  area so I consider them all as sort of my hometown.

Here's my thoughts on this development:

• I believe a business should have the right to refuse service to anyone they want.  Period.  No exceptions.  Want to hang a sign that says "No Blacks Allowed" or "No White's Allowed?"  Go for it.  How about people covered in disgusting tattoos and piercings all over their faces?  Same answer.  Because the market will quickly sort the whole thing out and they will, no doubt, be out of business post- haste.  
• Don't want to make wedding cakes for homosexual "weddings" or photograph their ceremony?  To quote Nancy Reagan, "Just say no." 

And here's the conclusions I've reached about the homosexual fascists who are driving this:

 I believe that most homosexuals could give a rip about any of this.  So, exactly why are we allowing a small minority, of an already small minority, of people to clog up the courts and rain down untold misery on decent people?

The homosexuals who are behind these lawsuits are bitter, hateful, vindictive, and vicious, and should be called out by every homosexual who doesn't approve. 

I'm tired of listening to them whine about their "rights."  What about ours?

More:  

Spokesman Review:  Hitching Post sues Coeur d’Alene after declining to marry gay couple 

Todd Starnes:   City Threatens to Arrest Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Weddings