Anti-gay protesters reportedly booed Eric Alva, a gay veteran who was the first Marine seriously injured in the Iraq War, while he was speaking in favor of a nondiscrimination ordinance at a San Antonio City Council meeting, the Dallas Voice reported.
“To all you people that preach the word of God, shame on you because God loves me, like the day I laid bleeding on the sands of Iraq and that’s why he saved me,” Alva (who resides in San Antonio) said before he left the podium. The City Council is expected to vote on the ordinance on Sept. 5.