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Do you know who Phyllis Burgess is?  You should.  She is an elderly woman who went to a Prop. 8 rally in Palm Springs to voice her opinion against gay marriage. 

Like Daniel in the lion's den, Phyllis stood calmly among an angry mob of gay marriage activists.  They shouted at her, hissed at her, pushed into her when she tried to speak to a reporter, and knocked the cross that she was carrying to the ground and then stomped on it in a fit of rage.  Throughout all of it she remained resolute and calm and even told the angry mob that she loved them.  

This sort of activity brings to my mind the mob activity the Saints faced long ago.  The more these activists protest in hateful ways against those who profess traditional Christian values, the more they show their true colors, and I am not talking about the colors of the rainbow.  Their true colors show them to be potential converts to the great and abominable church of the devil, that organization which seeks to persecute the Church of the Lamb of the God and its followers.    

Given her age, Phyllis looks to be a member of what Tom Brokaw calls the Greatest Generation.  The Greatest Generation refers to our seniors who sacrificed so much to halt the tide of Nazi fascism that swept across Europe during WW II. When times were tough and everything looked bleak, they stood up to one of the fiercest tyrants the modern world has ever known.  Their courage liberated an entire continent and returned peace to billions of people.  Their efforts took guts and tenacity, the sort of guts and tenacity we see in people like Phyllis Burgess. 

Click here to view the video of Phyllis confronting the protestors.

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