Messages of Hate Met by Scorn and Shrugs
“The fact that this organization targeted New York City for a weekend where they could go synagogue to synagogue spewing anti-Semitism and also homophobia is just the height of ignorance and hatred,” said the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn , who was one of more than 100 counterprotesters gathered Sunday morning at the Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a gay synagogue in Greenwich Village.
By A.G. SULZBERGER and COLIN MOYNIHAN NYTIMES.COM Published: June 21, 2009
They were only seven protesters barricaded on a small fringe of sidewalk on Central Park West, but their anti-gay, anti-Semitic signs and slogans were earning them plenty of attention. A dozen police officers kept watch. Passers-by stopped and gawked in curiosity, disbelief and outrage.
“What is wrong with you?” yelled a woman from the window of a white Mercedes paused at a stoplight next to the group. One man raised his hand in a rude gesture as he strode by; another mimicked a Nazi salute. A young jogger turned to the protesters and declared, “I feel sorry for you.”
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