Well, it's been an interesting, surreal and fortunately uneventful day. A group of us who are experienced in identifying many of the Operation Rescue participants entered the Magic Kingdom a bit before 10 am. At about 10:40 we spotted New Orleans pastor Bill Shanks, a woman from his church, and a juvenile playing family. We intercepted him and his companions in an outdoor cafe in which we were sitting near the center of the park, and followed him to the area near the front of the castle. At this point the airplane with the banner reading "Jesus can save you from your lifestyle" (as I recall) began circling the park. Shanks came over and engaged me, asked me what I thought of the banner (of course I told him it was disgusting.) He told me that ORN and its benefactors paid for the banner tow. They then walked through the passage in the castle to the area directly behind which was where the 11am meeting of gay youth was scheduled. The three of them loitered in this area, taking pictures, talking on a cellphone and sitting down for awhile. No one else showed. Disney security blanketed the area; I've worked around the President a number of times and still I think I saw more people with earpieces in this place than I'd ever seen before in my life. Some time after 11 Shanks walked up to the group in the middle of the meeting place and posed with them, then the three of them made their way out through the side walkway and around through the Tomorrowland entrance. I discreetly followed them up into the area of the Alien Encounter attraction, when I received a phone call from an observer at the ORN press conference at the demonstration outside the park at Maingate letting me know that Flip Benham, ORN director, had announced that their action was to have occurred where I came from behind the castle. I turned around and headed back, by then everyone and the security were gone. I compared notes with a number of reporters who were standing by to see the event and they all saw nothing. We left the park around 1:30 to get out of the heat, and we never spotted Shanks again, nor did we see any other OR people. As far as I can tell I am the only person that Shanks engaged in any way during the portion of his visit that I observed, although I think I saw him in a conversation which was started by another parkgoer. So as far as I know, Operation Rescue's foray into the Disney parks amounted to three people who didn't do anything the least bit unusual. I have a great shot of them from behind walking through the Tomorrowland arch which will go up on the website shortly. I suspect that they, as they usually do discounted the influence and number of gays and lesbians that would show, and didn't realize that the park entrances would close as the park filled to capacity. Tomorrow morning Sabina and I will be conducting an informational picket and press conference at the church that hosted Operation Rescue in the Orlando area - please see today's press release for details. -- Mike Doughney in Orlando, July 6, 1998