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An executive from a large multinational corporation called the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau and informed the bureau that the corporation he represents made a decision not to bring conventions utilizing 30,000 hotel rooms to the city because of the city's failure to protect the Hamilton Square Baptist Church.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> In addition, after the riot Christian groups threatened to boycott San Francisco.<ref>The Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 9, 1993</ref>  A November 11, 1993 editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle stated the following: "The demonstrators at Hamilton Square Baptist Church endangered not only their own cause but the cause of freedom itself."<ref>San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 1993</ref>

An executive from a large multinational corporation called the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau and informed the bureau that the corporation he represents made a decision not to bring conventions utilizing 30,000 hotel rooms to the city because of the city's failure to protect the Hamilton Square Baptist Church.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> In addition, after the riot Christian groups threatened to boycott San Francisco.<ref>The Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 9, 1993</ref>  A November 11, 1993 editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle stated the following: "The demonstrators at Hamilton Square Baptist Church endangered not only their own cause but the cause of freedom itself."<ref>San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 1993</ref>

 

Three days after the riot, Mayor Frank Jordan, the Chief of Police, and a representative from the District Attorney's office assured the church that a another event like the riot would not be permitted.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> However,  

Three days after the riot, Mayor Frank Jordan, the Chief of Police, and a representative from the District Attorney's office assured the church that a another event like the riot would not be permitted.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> However,  

according to Pastor Innes, "Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors with one or two exceptions has to this day stonewalled, denying that anything illegal or inappropriate had ever happened." <ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref>  Thus, according to Pastor Innes, "To protest the Board of Supervisors denial of any wrongdoing as well as their approval and blessing upon those who rioted against the Church, a Freedom Rally was held on Monday, November 8." <ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref>  The Freedom Rally brought 400 plus pastors and laymen from across the United States and represented over sixty thousand churches.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> According to Pastor Innes police protection was superb during the Freedom Rally.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> The  major newspapers and news networks covered the Freedom Rally and according to Pastor Innes most of the coverage was favorable. <ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref>  

according to Pastor Innes, "Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors with one or two exceptions has to this day stonewalled, denying that anything illegal or inappropriate had ever happened." <ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref>  Thus, according to Pastor Innes, "To protest the Board of Supervisors denial of any wrongdoing as well as their approval and blessing upon those who rioted against the Church, a Freedom Rally was held on Monday, November 8." <ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref>  The Freedom Rally brought 400 plus pastors and laymen from across the United States and represented over sixty thousand churches.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> According to Pastor Innes police protection was superb during the Freedom Rally.<ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref> The  major newspapers and news networks covered the Freedom Rally and according to Pastor Innes most of the coverage was favorable. <ref>http://www.hamiltonsquare.net/articlesRiotsNov1993.htm</ref>  

In October of 1993 Innis turned over to San Francisco police a recording of a telephone message he received that month in which an anonymous caller threatened to toss "jars filled with gasoline" through the windows of his church if he filed suit against one of the gay newspapers that publicized the guest appearance of Louis Sheldon on September 19, 1993.<ref>The San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 1993</ref>

In October of 1993 Innis turned over to San Francisco police a recording of a telephone message he received that month in which an anonymous caller threatened to toss "jars filled with gasoline" through the windows of his church if he filed suit against one of the gay newspapers that publicized the guest appearance of Louis Sheldon on September 19, 1993.<ref>The San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 1993</ref>

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