(Seattle, Washington) More than 20,000 people demonstrated against same-sex marriage Saturday in Seattle's Safeco Field, but they had to walk a gauntlet of gay protesters to get inside.
Busloads of people from conservative Christian churches and groups throughout the state faced more than a thousand angry gay protestors who lined the route to the stadium entrance.
The gay protestors yelled for "the bigots to go home" and accused the organizers of bringing in out of state agitators to stir up the crowd.
Inside the stadium, the anti-gay rally, called Mayday For Marriage, resembled a revival meeting and that featured Focus on the Family leader James Dobson.
FOC is at the forefront of the national effort to ban gay marriage. Dobson denounced homosexuality and condemned same-sex marriage. He told the crowd they must act now to pass a constitutional amendment to prevent gays from marrying.
Organizers of the rally paid $120,000 to rent the stadium.
The stadium is owned by the Seattle Mariners and named for Safeco Insurance which pays the Mariners a license fee to have its name on the facility.
Gays say the stadium should never have been rented for the rally and plan to mount a campaign to get people to cancel their Safeco insurance policies, and return their baseball tickets.
Police report only one arrest, a man who failed to obey a police order to move.
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