Silverton rebuffs protest of transgender mayor-elect
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/silverton_rebuffs_protest_of_t.htmlKimberly A.C. Wilson
11/24/2008
SILVERTON -- The counterprotesters outside City Hall in this Marion County town today significantly outnumbered the protesters who inspired them: three young women and a man from a Kansas church, here to register their disdain with the recent election of the nation's first openly transgender mayor, Stu Rasmussen.
The quartet spread out along one side of North Water Street, feet planted on American flags spread on the sidewalk and hoisting large laminated posterboards on each arm. Double-sided and easy to read from passing vehicles and local television trucks positioned half a block away, the signs offered assorted damnation -- "Barack Obama = Antichrist," "God Hates You," "You're Going to Hell" and "->-bleeped-<- Media Shame."
