So the Rally Goers were (obviously) from out of town

The Rally on Saturday in Cal Anderson was hosted by Spokane on Fire (ignore the massive conservative bias present in this article it’s just where I found the info), and the one on Tuesday was hosted by The Pursuit Northwest, a mega “church” ran by one Russell Johnson. Now, the Pursuit Northwest does have Seattle locations in University District, Kirkland, and out to Snohomish. You can look into them pretty easily if you look up their names. I saw some of y’all wondering who these people were, wanted to provide some info I could find.

Very likely they jumped in on this due to the financial gain from previous hate speech fueled churches that did similar, like the Westboro Baptist Church used to.

Also (big surprise here), The Pursuit Seattle has organized pro Israel rallies in the past, specifically a counter protest last year for United for Israel with Sean Feucht, and have been involved in far right Christian Nationalist protests since 2020.