On the 4th of February, several members of the same extreme-right Christian cult that harassed the Dec 29 Clearwater drag show turned up at Pasco County FL’s Pride event. They harassed Pride attendees and screamed that people were going to die, going to burn, and going to Hell. Eventually one of them lunged at a child attending Pride with their parents, drawing instant counterattack. One of them was tackled and all of them were driven back. Event security surrounded them, assisted by activists and other community members. Due to the extreme nature of their offense the Pasco County Sheriff’s Dept escorted them out but they were not arrested.

Had they been LGBTQ folks or anarchists disrupting a Fundamentalist church’s service they would have been arrested and quite likely subject to physical brutality at police hands. The same cult also attacks Jewish events and has been responsible for cancellations of miltiple events, which is grounds to consider them Nazis as well as dangerous religious extremists.