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The protest of the Mars Hill mega-church that we've been talking about for the past few weeks didn't go down as planned this weekend. It was called off at the last minute after Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll agreed to sit down with some of the organizers and discuss his egregious remarks towards women. Here is a recounting of that meeting and here is Driscoll's response to the protest. Below is an exchange we had with protest organizer Paul Chapman.

Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll is blowing up. His recent blog post on Ted Haggard, the meth smoking, gay prostitute hiring Colorado pastor displayed all of Mark's trademark bravado and bluster and unfortunately it probably made him as many new friends as new enemies and his apology for that post in no way apologizes for anything. And why should he? It's a very orchestrated campaign that presupposes, fosters and needs opposition.

Ok, our little shout-out to the organizers of the Mars Hill direct action earlier today worked, and we're sorry to be so pushy about it, but we're glad it worked. We should have done that days ago.

We wanted to get behind the direct action against Mars Hill because we too believe that Mark Driscoll is a woman-hating weirdo and it annoys us that he has such a huge congregation that seems to consider itself so punk rock. We kind of doubt that that they're particularly ill-informed on the issue of their pastor's attitudes towards women (uh, doesn't he speak directly to them every week?), but there's a chance that there are some hipsters in that crowd that legitimately don't know what's going on (always a safe assumption of hipsters) and if we can help get some people together to raise awareness of the brand of Christianity that's being practiced at Mars Hill, great.

A website entitled "People Against Fundamentalism" is setting up a direct action against the Seattle megachurch Mars Hill for December 3rd at 11am outside their Ballard campus to protest the preachings of Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll. There is a certain...passion to the website's descriptions of Mark and his attitudes towards women, as you can see here: