“Teen Mania” - The Battle Cry For Re-Creationism
Teen Maniacs? Or Teen Victims?
(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
New York, NY - February 8, 2008. “Battle Cry For Our Generation” is a campaign of a Texas based parachurch organization known as Teen Mania Ministries, headed by founder Ron Luce. Backers include Pat Robertson and other prominent leaders of the Christian Right, many of whom subscribe to “dominionist” (theocratic) beliefs. The core precept of dominionists is that Christians must engage in political action to replace secular law with biblical law. In practice this would mean an extreme authoritarian state. {1} Battle Cry activists are working towards this goal and they brought their message to New York’s Times Square on Friday, February 9. They were met by counter-demonstrators from the World Can’t Wait, the Harlem Revolution Club and Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS).
Times Square’s “Military Island” Recruiting Center
(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
The Times Square action was not the first Teen Mania event to inspire controversy or counter-demonstrations. Battle Cry staged a protest on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall in March 2006 because the steps were “the very city hall steps where several months ago ‘gay marriages’ were celebrated.” {2} According to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joe Garifoli the March 2006 protest earned Teen Mania an official city condemnation. Garifoli reports that local protesters characterized the event as a “fascist mega-pep rally”. {3}
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