On August 23, CBS Minnesota reported that some fairgoers had "protested" againt Bradlee Dean's You Can Run But You Can't Hide International's (YCR) State Fair booth. Four days later, Bluestem noted that the emails the station received might better have been called complaints, since no one was tossing glitter or carrying signs.
Soros Attacks!
Had we but waited a few short days, we might have found Michael Chergosky's Change.org petition, Minnesota State Fair: Keep "You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International" out! - Sign the Petition! to boot TCR out of the Fair, posted from the petition site to his Facebook page at its creation on August 31, 2013.
"Let's keep the Fair Minnesota nice," Chergosky wrote on Facebook.
Given that the Fair ended two days later, on September 2, we might be forgiven for missing it.
But not Bradlee Dean and his allies. The Christian News Service has distributed a press release Petition Started by Soros Funded Group Against Ministry at Minnesota State Fair that documents the atrocities.
That headline suggests that the Alexandria Lakes Area Tea Party's May prayer offensive to convert activist hedge fund-operator George Soros to Christianity has come to naught. Or maybe Soros has nothing to do with the content of a site that posts 500 petitions a day.
Let's see what Petition Started by Soros Funded Group Against Ministry at Minnesota State Fair has to report:
Throwing logic aside, a radical left-wing petition on the website Change.org has taken aim at popular preacher and radio personality, Bradlee Dean, and his ministry’s participation at the Minnesota state fair recently.
The petition, started by St. Paul resident Michael Chergosky, claims that You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, Dean’s youth ministry, is “divisive” and should not be invited to the state fair; regardless of the fact that the ministry has had a booth at the Minnesota State Fair for the past eight years. The petition also ignored a multitude of praise from young people and school administrators over the years over YCRBYCHI’s ministry. Chergosky merely made the oft-heard charge of “hate group” simply because Dean promotes a message that sex should be limited to within marriage between one man and one woman.
“It’s all a matter of viewpoint discrimination,” Dean said in reply. “When you uphold the truth of the Bible you have enemies – Christ himself told us of this.”
Indeed, YCRBYCHI organizers are noting that their ministry has reached out to more than 342 high schools in 26 states. Opposition to it, Dean said, seems to center on a few opponents from the militant homosexual community, or communist-leaning media [emphasis added]. . . .
That would so be an accurate description of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2011, controlled at the time by the Republican caucus, which redacted Dean's prayer from the record after Dean cast doubts on President Obama's faith and many legislators object to Dean's ministry as homophobic.
As for the high school assemblies, Andy Kopsa's 2012 review of the record at RH Reality Check, Hate-Group Frontman Bradlee Dean Stirs outrage at Dunkerton, Iowa School, provides a good overview of the response.
Who is Michael Chergosky?
Tim Brown at Liberty Outpost gets down and dirty with the release in Soros-Funded
Group Petitions against Freedom of Speech for Christian Ministry at
Minnesota State Fair:
Mr. Chergosky claims to be with the Minnesota State Fair, according to the petition, and from the groups he is engaged in on his Facebook page, he is a practicing homosexual or at least sympathetic to homosexuality. . . .
Brown claims that Chergosky the petition maker was born in 1953. He seem to have confused the younger Michael Chergosky, born in 1992, with his father, born in 1953. Both are members of the band Café Société.
Progressive criticism of Change.org
It's curious that the main attack of the press release is directed toward the vehicle for young Chergosky's petition, since Change.org has been under attack from the Left. In October 2012, Crooks and Liars blogger Karoli wrote in Why I Will Not Sign Another Change.org Petition, Ever:
What is happening to Change.org and other organizations should worry all of us. With venture capitalists buzzing around these organizations waiting to put money and effort into buying the grassroots, Change.org appears to have decided it's too much trouble to make a decision about whether or not sponsored campaigns should be accepted from organizations doing evil to progressive causes, like Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst did earlier this year.
Jeff Bryant wrote a post for the Campaign for America's Future aptly entitled "Change.Org, Enabler Of Davids, Decides To Side With Goliaths Instead", exposing the decisions Change.org launched on Monday. They had not planned to actually tell their progressive clients they were moving in this direction, preferring to roll things out and then deal one on one with any complaints. However, someone leaked the internal documents to Jeff, who then published them along with his post.
Jeff:
According to the new policies, the social action platform will now be open to companies and corporations of any size, political parties, "front groups," and "astroturf" organizations. Only advertisers strictly identified as "hate groups" are to be barred.
According to a Change.org document "Rebrand-Internal FAQs," the more than 20 million users of the platform will not notice dramatic changes to the site. They will see "a new visual look" and "updated language on the About Us" and other boilerplate pages. And users will be able to submit petitions as they have done in the past.
But wait, there's even more.
What will change is that Change.org will no longer "filter potential advertisers" based on the advertisers' "values." Nor will Change.org filter potential advertisers based on any "gut feelings about the content of the ad itself."A different document, "Change.org Advertising Guidelines," provides more detail about the new policies, including that ads can't "promote hate, violence or discrimination… promote bullying, harassment, or intimidation… use or promote hate speech… discriminate against an organization, person, or protected group." Also, "Ads cannot contain inaccurate or deceitful content."
According to the Huffington Post, these new policies came about after the furor over Rhee's StudentsFirst organization putting up misleading petitions in order to harvest email addresses.
Other than that, it's all George Soros all the time.
Christian News Service: standing in the need of payer
Who's distributing the rote Soros conspiracy attack? According to its website page "What We Do," Christian News Service works in the following way:
Christian News Service (CNS) exists to assist organizations and businesses share information through media outlets across the globe. There are two main purposes of this site:
For Publishers – we provide small PR agencies and organizations a voice to reach the Christian market.
For News Journalists – we provide a news gathering service to support your news operation.
In addition to covering PR news, we also write press releases, news editorials, produce news packages for radio. Although CNS is based in the United States, our news may come from any side of the world, addressing our subscribers from specific countries, and international audiences.
PUBLISHERS
Create and publish your press releases in three easy steps
- Write your 350-400 word news or press release
- Fill out our simple submit form
- Select and Purchase your target distribution plan on the next page after submitting your release.
Our Mass Media Distribution reaches nearly 80,000 journalists, 4000+ websites including Religion Today, the Salem Web Network, Christian Press, Crosswalk, Christian Broadcasting Network, American Family Radio Network, USA/IRN Radio Network, BOTT Radio Network, Christianity Today, TownHall, NewsMax, World Magazine, Roll Call, WND, Google News, AOL News, Yahoo News, Fox News Channel, CNN and more.
Bluestem, alas, is not on this distribution list, but perhaps we'll use CNS for our winter revival meeting on the Minnesota River once it freezes.
Dean's martyrdom at the hands of Soros!
But for Bradlee Dean, it's all about the persecution:
#Bradlee DeanPetition Started by Soros Funded Group Against Ministry at Minnesota State Fair http://t.co/b2vaauf7WB via @christianpress
— Bradlee Dean (@BradleeDean1) September 19, 2013
Update: Bradlee Dean speaks to the Threat of Soros
In Bradlee Dean: The Soros Campaign to Shut Me Down, the evangelist of Annandale writes:
This week I received some information that my ministry was being petitioned by change.org, which is funded by none other than the international criminal George Soros, in an attempt to prevent my participation at the Minnesota State Fair. We also became aware of the fact that he who is petitioning the ministry is representing himself under a feigned manner and has no affiliation with the Fair. Outside of the fact that I have nothing to hide, the truth and facts, which bear forth my fruit, will expose their lies and those advocating crimes toward our American republic.
Photos: The Minnesota State Fair (above); George Soros channels Grumpy Cat (middle); Michael Chergosky the Younger, via Facebook (below).
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Little Red Victim Hood rides again!
Wonder how much coin Bradley Dean Smith thinks he can wring from his shrinking flock with this schtick?
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Sep 19, 2013 at 10:43 PM