Last weekend’s Taylor Pride Festival may have been an example of how our country should behave when groups of people with vastly different ideologies came together in Heritage Square – one to celebrate their lives, one to oppose a lifestyle.
“We’re not protesting. We’re here because we believe the scripture, we believe the gospel,” said Jeff Ripple, pastor of Christ Fellowship Church in Taylor, who stood outside the festival area with a group of congregants holding signs. “Love demands that if I truly love people and I believe that they are perishing, love demands that I try to reach them. If I didn’t love, there’s a million other places I could be today.”
Denise Rodgers, president of Taylor Pride, said that she has been dealing with Ripple and his group since the first Pride festival in 2021. She says the two groups have a fairly peaceful relationship formed over the years.
