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Xeno-x - A few years back, I actually got involved in a protest of our
local gay pride parade for that reason.
It was shut down for two years because of nudity and mock sex acts being performed on the parade route. Our mayor at the time was quoted in the paper as saying: "Keep your clothes on like everybody else in our society has to in obeyance of the law and we will be happy to re-instate the gay pride parade" . . . when it re-appeared, it was run by different people who turned it into quite an event that pumps mega bucks into the local economy. No reported incidents of nudity have taken place since. I wonder how it is that people involved in these events do not see this?
posted by
gomedome
on July 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM
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I've been laying off Big Mac's for some time now --
now I'll have to buy a few just to offset this group's proposed boycott.
However . . . homosexuals do hurt themselves by too much exposure of the body at occasions such as this.
We have a parade yearly in St. Louis, and one complaint is overexposure of the body.
You want to be rexpected, you ought to be a little circumsepct at least in order to gainthe respect and not alieanate.
However, yes the Family group -- I think they've been a key to ol' George's success -- a bit too far gone -- very restricted agenda.
I think they are biased -- and yet the pics of the parade show that homosexuals themselves can feed the bias.
posted by
Xeno-x
on July 30, 2008 at 8:42 AM
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Luz_Briar - I don't really understand what they think they are doing?
In all of what they have listed as their objections, I can only find one thing that was a legitimate beef. The public nudity taking place during the gay pride parade is against the law. That's it, everything else is one group of people attempting to make the rest of society live by their twisted biblical interpretations. As if gay people have no rights to pursue their own idea of hapiness and as if MacDonalds must pick and choose which portions of its client base it can sponsor, . . . until they get the okay from these idiots.
posted by
gomedome
on July 29, 2008 at 10:28 PM
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wow. way to go for this group 
i don't remember the McDonald's commercial promoting gay marriage but, uh...if they know about it...why not boycott it, right?
posted by
Luz_Briar
on July 29, 2008 at 10:11 PM
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You see I stopped attending a Church twenty odd years ago. I just
couldn't take the BS. it's just me and what I feel I am meant to do and be. This way my mind is open to hear not clogged with crap.
posted by
Kabu
on July 29, 2008 at 8:48 PM
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Re: One of the less attractive attributes of right-wing conservative
Pat_B - it is all beyond comprehension when you view it from the outside. They are major contributors to proliferating the hostile social environment that causes gays to feel like outsiders, then they offer a bogus conversion therapy as a means of bringing them back into the fold. All one has to do to be accepted by them and one would presume, also accepted by their "all loving, omnipotent and infallable creator", is to modify their sexual behavior, ignore their biological needs and generally denounce who they are. . . . I don't know whether to laugh or cry at such a level of obtuseness.
posted by
gomedome
on July 29, 2008 at 6:03 PM
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One of the less attractive attributes of right-wing conservative
groups is their weird persistent homophobia. I guess they don't credit their maker with making all of us as we are, blue eyes or brown, gay/straight, beautiful/ugly, etc., etc.
posted by
Pat_B
on July 29, 2008 at 3:46 PM
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O LAWD!!!!!
That guy. (eye roll here)
I don't know, but my circle of friends finds it funny that One Million Moms is headed up by an old white dude.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on July 29, 2008 at 2:05 PM
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