Residents confront evangelists preaching outside gay couples home - The Globe and Mail
Evangelists go door to door in my neighborhood all of the time but if they stop and start shouting and sermonizing in mid street smart money says that either my neighbors or the Lenexa PD chases them off.
Residents of an east-end Toronto neighbourhood took on a group of Christian parishioners preaching in their street in a heated confrontation Sunday, the result of what the gospel members insist was a complete misunderstanding.
Several of the residents claim the gospel and prayers were directed against a gay couple living on the Leslieville street.
The two men, for their part, are nonplussed: They say they’ve been living on Highfield Road for a dozen years, have never felt targeted and are surprised at their neighbours’ attempts to defend them.
“There was nothing targeted” during the Sunday “open-air prayer meeting,” a member of the Highfield Road Gospel Hall, near Highfield and Dundas streets, said Tuesday. He declined to give his name but said he’s been with the group since 1982 and claims they’ve “never seen anything like the vitriol that’s been posted” in response to Sunday’s encounter, which was shot on video and subsequently went viral.