{"id":4652,"date":"2023-08-03T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2023-08-03T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:58:48","slug":"when-protesting-hurts-more-than-it-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"When Protesting Hurts More Than It Helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/when-protesting-hurts-more-than-it-helps\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/when-protesting-hurts-more-than-it-helps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday saw \u201cPride in the Park\u201d at Watertown\u2019s Riverside Park. Billed as \u201cfamily-friendly,\u201d the events included a drag queen show and a drag queen story hour for children. A group of Neo-nazi men showed up as did others protesting the event. Apparently, a young man reading the Bible aloud via a megaphone was arrested not for reading the Bible in a public place but because city ordinances ban using amplification at the park without a permit, especially if the amplification interferes with a previously permitted event, which was the case Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This already-bad event was made worse by the Neo-Nazis showing up and others also not from Watertown illegally protesting.\u00a0 As a result of all this, the organizers of this drag queen debauchery received far more sympathy and attention than they should have. There\u2019s a way to protest what we disagree with, and a way not to. Doing it wrong hurts way more than it helps.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/when-protesting-hurts-more-than-it-helps\/ Last Saturday saw \u201cPride in the Park\u201d at Watertown\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}