Ethics

Street Preachers at the Inauguration

By Ed Brayton

The Washington Post reports on a bunch of street preachers who showed up in Washington DC over the last few days to deliver their usual stupidity and vitriol.

"You feed the rest of your world with your filth!" screamed the man with the bullhorn.

It had all been going so well.

Tens of thousands of spectators were bundled up and making their way to the Mall for the inaugural concert when their joyous pipeline of humanity ran smack into -- how should we say this? -- a contrarian spirit.

Four men who called themselves street preachers had taken up occupation at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, a strategic location for maximum impact. They used a bullhorn to shout to the passing crowds.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).