With gay marriage now legal in North Carolina, it was only a matter of time before Flip Benham of Operation Save America started crashing wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples. The North Carolina-based pastor, who is the father of Religious Right activists David and Jason Benham, reportedly disrupted several weddings at the Mecklenburg County and Courts Office in Charlotte last week. Benham’s group, which in July disrupted a memorial service at a Unitarian Universalist congregation in New Orleans, “interrupted several couples’ weddings as supporters held up a large rainbow flag to block his view,” according to the North Carolina LGBT publication Q Notes. “Another protester waved a bible in the air as he screamed several profanities and vulgarities.”
Who is Flip Benham? According to Wikipedia.com:
Since 1980, Benham has been an ordained minister of the Free Methodist Church. He founded a Free Methodist congregation in Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, which he led until 1992.[1]
Benham has been active in the anti-abortion movement since the early 1980s, and he founded Operation Rescue’s chapter in the Metroplex in 1988. He succeeded Randall Terry as national director of Operation Rescue in 1994, and renamed it Operation Save America in 1999.[1]
Flip Benham needs to stick to his Operation Rescue tactics. Hassling gays is more the tactics of Westboro Baptist. Apparently Operation Save America isn’t enough to keep the Flipster busy. He can’t decide if he wants to end same sex marriage or end abortion. Flip is simply an extremist with too much time on his hands.
I have seen Flip doing his work with Operation Rescue. He was contemptible but he wasn’t the boss. Randall Terry was. Now Flip is the boss, I can only imagine his tactics– bullying women and those whose behavior isn’t up to HIS standards.
He is an embarrassment to Christianity and certainly is a poor example of what most of us think Christian behavior should be.
Never mind Christian behaviour – Jesus had manners. His mother taught him.
Can’t recall hearing much about this Benham feller. I’m more interested in the tyrannical actions of that fool lesbian of a mayor in Houston and her idiot city council who are trying to force clergymen to fork over their sermons on same-sex marriage and other homosexual subjects.
In his other life, he was a leader in Operation Rescue.
I haven’t heard of the mayor.