Free-lance journalist Rex Wockner reports that about 15,000 antigay Californians attended an anti-marriage rally in San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium Nov. 1. Rally officials falsely claimed attendance of 33,000.

James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council headlined the event. At least one Exodus ex-gay activist, Yvette Cantu Schneider, spoke against the rights of gay couples. Good As You has audio clips of Dobson, Perkins, Schneider, and others talking in patronizing and pitying tones about homosexuals and trivializing the subject of sexual orientation.

Dobson blames the love of gay couples for “the destruction of Western civilization.”

According to Wockner:

The crowd prayed, sang, spoke in tongues, prostrated themselves, sobbed (for California, for marriage, for the homosexuals) and, on numerous occasions, whipped themselves into a true frenzy.

Lots of words came into my head during my hours there: Cultlike. Brainwashing. Frenzied. Frightening. Depressing. But, interestingly, there wasn’t really any hate on display. They seemed to just want to “save” marriage. And, as for the homosexuals, they love us, they pray for us, they want us to be set free from sin and demons.