Lafayette's MLK event sparks protest over Flatirons Community Church

If you go

What: Martin Luther King Jr. March for Peace and Celebration

When: Participants assemble by 11:45 a.m. Monday. March starts at noon

Where: Marchers should assemble outside Lafayette Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road

More information: CityofLafayette.com

Counter-protest: Meet between 11:30 and 11:45 a.m. Monday behind Pioneer Elementary School, 101 E. Baseline Road

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. March for Peace and Celebration in Lafayette on Monday will be shadowed by a smaller, parallel march protesting the traditional event's new choice of destination: Flatirons Community Church.

Lafayette resident BK Loren started contacting friends in recent days, hoping to stir up those who will voice their objections to the MLK event's association with the massive church that in March 2013 took a public stand against same-sex marriage.

Beyond that, Loren and her associates their group is too new to have a name, she said also are very uncomfortable with Flatirons' spreading real estate footprint in the city.

"What we are hoping for is to create a movement for a 21st century notion of civil rights. That's our overall goal," said Loren, who married her partner in Iowa in 2009.

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Lafayette's MLK event sparks protest over Flatirons Community Church