Detailed Speakers Schedule:
'Love & Truth' Campaign Countering "Gay Games"
7/20/2006 9:20:00 AM
By Illinois Family Institute
 | Can you be proudly 'gay' and Christian?
Robert Gagnon, Assoc. Prof. of New Testament Pittsburgh Theological Seminary & the world's leading authority on the Bible & homosexuality, will answer that question Sun. & Mon., July 16-17, during IFI's Love & Truth campaign. Gagnon will speak at the College Church Commons in Wheaton Sun. at 7:15 PM, & at the Crystal Lake Library on Mon. at 6:30 PM.
|  | .jpg) | "Because we care ...about gay men, we will be in front of Steamworks [a Chicago gay bathhouse] urging them not to engage in destructive and highly dangerous behavior," says IFI Executive Director Peter LaBarbera. To see the Gay Games' list of Official Sponsors (including Steamworks), click HERE. |
Presentations and Outreach Every Day during Chicago 'Games' July 15-22
The following are the scheduled speakers for Illinois Family Institute's "Love and Truth" campaign during the "Gay Games" July 15-22:
[NOTE: Events in red are located in the suburbs--including a joint speaker event Tuesday evening at 6:00 PM where a light dinner will be served. This event at IFI features Linda Harvey of Mission America, speaking on "How the Homosexual Movement Corrupts and Endangers Children," and Janice Couture, speaking on "How to Love Your Gay or Lesbian Child without Loving their Behavior."
All other events are in Chicago, mostly at the Chicago Plaza Hotel, located at 520 S. Michigan Ave., at the corner of Michigan and Congress Pkwy in downtown (SUITE 1001)]
Opening "Love & Truth" news conference: Saturday, July 15, 3:00 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001 520 South Michigan Avenue (Michigan and Congress Pkwy.), Chicago; featuring:Linda Jernigan, a former lesbian, www.RescuingHomosexuals.org;
Greg Quinlan, former homosexual activist with the "gay" lobby group Human Rights Campaign, and active in the pro-family movement;
Pastor Michael Allen, Uptown Baptist Church, Chicago (Allen is coordinating the Gospel outreach at the "Gay Games");
Janice Couture, who will be speaking on "How to love your gay or lesbian child without loving their behavior";
Stephanie Raquel, representing Concerned Women for America of Illinois;
Elder JRC Tyler of the African American Family Association
Sandy Rios, representing Culture Campaign
Peter LaBarbera, Exec. Dir., Illinois Family Institute Speech Presentations July 15-22:
Dr. Robert Gagnon, author of "The Bible and Homosexual Practice," speaking on, "Is proud homosexuality compatible with Christianity?":Sunday morning, July 16 at 10:30 AM at Uptown Baptist Church, 1011 West Wilson Ave., Chicago;
Sunday evening, 7:15 PM at College Church Commons, directly across the street from College Church at 332 E. Seminary Ave., in Wheaton;
Monday, July 17, 10:30 AM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001 520 South Michigan Avenue (Congress Pky and Michigan Ave.), Chicago;
Monday evening, July 17, 6:30 PM, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock Street, Crystal Lake, [Crystal Lake was injected into the "Gay Games" controversy when it was chosen as a sporting venue for the "Games"] Note: this is not a Crystal Lake Public Library-sponsored program. To learn more about Dr. Gagnon, visit his website, www.robgagnon.net;
Janice Couture, whose daughter is a practicing lesbian: "How to love your gay or lesbian child without loving their behavior":Monday, July 17, 1:00 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Suite # 1001
Tuesday, July 18, 1:00, Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Suite # 1001
Tuesday, July 18: 6:00 PM, Illinois Family Institute office complex, 799 Roosevelt Rd., Glen Ellyn (Meeting room is in Bldg. 4, Room # 006, next to IFI's building at Bldg. 3, Suite 208, in the office complex just west off the Roosevelt Rd. exit on I-355; Couture and Linda Harvey will both be appearing at this event; a light dinner will be served; call 630-790-8370 for more information; Linda Harvey of Mission America, speaking on, "How the gay movement endangers and corrupts children":Tuesday, July 18, 10:30 AM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001 Chicago;
Tuesday, July 18, IFI office complex, 6:00 PM, 799 Roosevelt Rd., Glen Ellyn (Meeting room is in Bldg. 4, Room # 006, next to IFI's building at Bldg. 3, Suite 208; Harvey and Couture will both be appearing at this event; a light dinner will be served) Linda Jernigan, founder of "RescuingHomosexuals.org," who lived 19 years in the lesbian lifestyle but now helps others leave it:Wednesday, July 19, 10:30 AM, Congress Plaza Hotel, (Congress Pkwy and Michigan Ave.), Suite # 1001
Thursday, July 20, 1:00 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001 Peter LaBarbera, Executive Director, Illinois Family Institute, "The homosexual agenda in Chicago and its powerful friends, including compromised corporations," Wednesday, 2:00 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001
Rev. Al Cleveland, an African American minister, speaking on "Why homosexuality is not a civil rights issue", Thursday, July 20, 10:30 AM, Chicago Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001
Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis, Media Research Center, "So much for the 'objective' media: why are NBC5, the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Times sponsoring the 'Gay Games'?" Thursday, July 20, 5:30 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001
James Hartline, former homosexual and HIV-positive Christian activist, who has done amazing work exposing the corruption in San Diego's "gay community":Friday, July 21, 10:30 AM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001
Friday, July 21, 3:30 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001
Saturday, July 22, media availability in front of Steamworks bathhouse (peaceful informational outreach); 5:30 PM, 3246 Halsted Street, Chicago. Greg Quinlan, ex-gay founder of the Pro-Family Network in Ohio:Friday, July 21, 1:00 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001
Saturday, July 22, Media availability, Steamworks bathhouse (gay sex club) before peaceful informational outreach; 5:30 PM, 3246 Halsted St., Chicago; Dr. John Diggs, "The severe health risks of homosexual behavior":Saturday, July 22, 1:00 PM, Congress Plaza Hotel, Suite # 1001
Media availability, Steamworks bathhouse (gay sex club) before peaceful informational outreach; 5:30 PM, 3246 Halsted St., Chicago. Please call IFI at 630-790-8370 for more information.
Previous IFI press release:
IFI Counters "Gay Games" with "Love and Truth" Campaign
Illinois Family Institute (IFI) will launch a "Love and Truth" campaign July 15th to lovingly present an alternative Christian message countering the "Gay Games" (July 15-22)-culminating in a peaceful informational outreach in front of a Chicago gay bathhouse that is among the Games' official sponsors.
The kickoff will be a press conference on Saturday, July 15 at 3:00 at the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago, featuring a former lesbian, Linda Jernigan, and Greg Quinlan, who was once a homosexual activist with the "gay" lobby group Human Rights Campaign but is now active in the pro-family movement.
IFI is working closely with Pastor Michael Allen of the Uptown Baptist Church in Chicago, who is leading a volunteer outreach of Christians who will present water bottles with a Gospel message to athletes and spectators at "Gay Games" venues across the city. (Click HERE to read Pastor Allen's stirring open letter, "WWJD? Pastor Issues 'Gay Games' Gospel Challenge to Revs. Hybels, Meeks.")
"We are presenting an alternative message to Gay Games attendees to anyone with an open mind to hear it," said IFI Executive Director Peter LaBarbera. "Our outreach includes several excellent speakers who embody the spirit of true Christian compassion on this issue. All of us embrace the life-changing hope of Jesus Christ and understand that nobody has to be 'gay.'"
LaBarbera said the Love and Truth campaign will conclude Saturday night, July 22, with an informational Christian outreach in front of the homosexual bathhouse Steamworks in Chicago's Boystown (gay) neighborhood. Steamworks, where men go for anonymous sex with other men, is an official sponsor of the Gay Games. Steamwork's sponsorship is evidence of the unhealthy "extracurricular" activities that surround this event and the homosexual lifestyle in general, LaBarbera said.
"Because we care about gay men, we will be in front of Steamworks urging them not to engage in destructive and highly dangerous behavior," he said. To see Gay Games' list of Official Sponsors (including Steamworks), click HERE.
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