Stand up and walk out.

[pwb]

Stand up and wave your arms in the air when you hear hate and racism at church.

Stand up and walk out when you hear lies at political town hall meetings.

Attend opposition meetings and show your disgust by waving your arms in the air and walking out.

Attend gun rallies and walk out.

Make sure you wave your arms so people do not think you are just going to the rest room.

Giving the finger is also an option.

We need a new type of movement in this country, a sort of code pink for all of us.

Sitting and listening to hate and lies gives the impression of approval.

Don't you wish people would raised their hand to ask a question at church or in the middle of some political rant?. Like hey wait a minute there.

Just a thought.

Peace.

[bluedigger]

1. Poor strategy for political meetings.

Not much point to ceding the ground to the opposition. But I like the other examples you give.

[pwb]

12. I was thinking small local meetings where it would be noticed.

It definitely would not work at a national convention, unless it was done in mass.

[OregonBlue]

2. Especially at church. People need to stand up and say, "that is racists or that is hateful". There

are probably others thinking the same thing but they are afraid to voice their opinion.

[LittleGirl]

8. THIS!

I was at my niece's wedding a couple of years ago and the Priest said "those who are on good standing with the church may proceed to communion". I just sighed and shook my head and I had to bite my tongue because I wanted to ask him how he could judge people that way. I was in the second row and a family member and couldn't believe the priest said something so hypocritical to the people attending this wedding mass.
I was ready to walk out but I didn't want to make a scene at her wedding.

[NYC_SKP]

3. I like it. (nt)

[Skidmore]

4. Unless you let people know what you are objecting to, waking out

serves no purpose other than to cede the forum to hate speech.

[NOLALady]

5. Have you tried doing that?

What were the results?

[pwb]

11. I have.

Some years ago I walked out of church when the priest said there is nothing we can do to stop the war. It felt good and I now go to church rarely.

[NOLALady]

15. I walked out of a Church once, a very long time ago.

There was a sermon about immoral and depraved alcoholics.

My wonderful GFather was an alcoholic. He couldn't go near any alcohol and usually he went for years without slipping. Every so often he would have one drink and before I knew it, he was seriously ill spitting blood. His illness would scare the hell out of me as I loved him so much.
Everyone who knew him thought highly of him. Very few outside of family and his immediate circle of friends knew of his problem. No one would ever think of describing him as immoral or depraved.

Anyway, as I was exiting the Church, the ushers asked why I was leaving. I told them that I needed a drink. The sermon had awakened a strong need for the "spirits".

I never went back to that Church.

[Dreamer Tatum]

6. Getting up and walking out is a movement? nt

[Warpy]

10. It's a start

We have to start somewhere.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Make a commotion with loud "Excuse Me" as you politely work your way out of the crowd or pews. nt

[Warpy]

9. Well, instead of waving, do that gesture of sheer disgust at the speaker

palms toward him and hands flipped down quickly. Just waving won't get the message across.

The angriest I ever saw my mother was when a stuffed shirt of a priest gave a sermon about how the only place for women in the church was cleaning it.

The most disappointed I ever was in her was that she didn't stand up and walk out.

I'd ditched church so I missed the whole spiel and yes, I would have walked out. I didn't believe a word of it anyway.

[jwirr]

13. Good idea. Back in the 70s our minister preached a sermon on forgiving Nixon. My 5th grade daughter

wanted to walk out but she did not say anything to me until we were walking out of the church. She did refuse to shake the pastors hand. I will have to tell her about this idea.

[NightWatcher]

14. I avoid the BS and hypocrisy at church

I avoid churches all together. The "love thy neighbor" group has turned into the "curse thy neighbor" group. I avoid negativity.