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Yale University Photo of the Day

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Love this photo – by Daniel Carvalho at the Yale Daily News.
Apparently, 25-year-old evangelical preacher Jesse Morrell has been attracting a crowd on campus.
“While Morrell failed to attract much attention from passersby during his first two days on campus, on Thursday afternoon, about 100 Yalies gathered to watch him rail against moral corruption at Yale. Several of those gathered wondered aloud if Morrell actually believed the things he said, and others heckled during his sermon, while others still took photos and videos on their cell phones. ‘It seems like he’s really enjoying this, frankly,’ Jeremy Poindexter said.”
Wearing a herringbone jacket and cap, Morrell said he converted to Christianity in 2001, right before he turned 16. Morrell said it was during his time at the Whalley Avenue juvenile center that he was persuaded to convert to Christianity by a hellfire preacher.
He said he believes every religion other than Christianity is wrong and that people must “turn or burn” — convert to Christianity or burn in “the fires of hell.”
In case you can’t make out the sign it states, “REPENT:
fornicators, homosexuals, liars, theives, masturbators, Obama voters, Buddhists, dirty dancers, Hindus, ganster rappers, Muslims, drunkards, feminists, immodest women, Democrats, liberals, evolutionists, Atheists, potheads, sodomites
HELL AWAITS YOU!
As someone said, funny that he left out drug dealers, which is what he was convicted of.
Brings to mind the old Anita Bryant demonstrations of the 70s, I’m sure many of you remember these statements well. I personally lived in Florida where the orange juice queen lost her gig over this.
“As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.” ~Anita Bryant, 1977, and;
“If homosexuals are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.” (She was a former Miss America) ~Anita Bryant, 1977
In some circles her “traditional values” are being carried on to this day.