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First grader Zea Bowling is making headlines after a powerful confrontation between the seven-year-old and a homophobic preacher was caught on camera at a Columbus-area festival over the weekend.

Miss Bowling was attending ComFest, an annual community festival that had turned into a spontaneous celebration of Friday’s historic Supreme Court ruling, with her family when she was met by a vocal anti-gay activist. What happened next? Well, watch below.

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What’s most impressive is that “Zea didn’t just flash the flag at that hatemonger, and bail,” her father wrote on Facebook afterwards. “They went toe to toe, for several minutes, while he bellowed all of his fire and brimstone right in her face. She told me afterward that she did feel scared. The one thing the people of ‪#‎comfest2015‬ never let her feel though? Alone.”

Photographer Mara Gruber also snapped a pic, and posted it to social media:

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This article appears in Jul 1-7, 2015.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

5 replies on “Seven-Year-Old Ohio Girl Stands Up to Anti-Gay Activist”

  1. That child’s parents are doing a fabulous job! Congrats to the entire Bowling family, and hats off to Miss Zoe.

    ♥

  3. So…Jesus will save people from Hell? OK. However, why is marriage choice associated with Hell? Jesus was not the type of guy to go around speaking about marriage choice, right? I never recall him saying, “Make sure you marry a person of the opposite sex.”

    Am I the only one that feels like those that are of the “new” churches and those that speak out with anger and aggression are most likely hiding their guilt of being homosexual?

    We are so backwards in some regards in this country.

    Just live how you choose to live. Love whomever. I really feel for these “Christians” who use the bible and manipulate its scriptures to full fear and hate. Must be tough living every day with anger.

  4. That little girl is amazing and so are her parents.

    As for Jesus, there is no proof he existed, but if he did he was reportedly a single man who traveled around with 12 other unattached guys.

    Hmmmmm……

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