As a church in Asheville, N.C. held a "Rally for the Family" event, local residents united in support of their LGBTQ+ neighbors.

Greater Works Church in the community of Five Points held the event Saturday in partnership with the anti-queer South Carolina group Christian Families Against Destructive Decisions (CFADD), an organization seeking to uphold the values of the nuclear family.

...In response, Five Points community members decided to send a message of love and acceptance to local LGBTQ+ residents. Outside the church on Saturday, residents engulfed the sidewalks with colorful chalk artwork in a show of solidarity — and a dig at church leaders.

The messages featured sayings such as "Welcome to Five Point's rainbow road," "God = Love," "Love is Love," and a poster board sign reading "Hate is no way to show love."

“A lot of the groups associated with the event are very anti-LGBTQ, and there’s a lot of LGBTQ families in this neighborhood,” Micah Nielsen, who participated in drawing on the sidewalks, told WLOS.