"I'm Irish and I'm a lesbian." says Christine Quinn
A New York City councilwoman is verbally duking it out with the St. Patrick's Day Parade organizers. Speaker Christine Quinn is boycotting the parade because the organizers will not let gays and lesbians use the parade as a platform for furthering their homosexual agenda. The Parade organizers refused to allow homosexual groups to carry banners identifying their sexual preferences. Maintaining the integrity of the holiday and refusing to turn the parade from a celebration of Irish ancestry into a celebration of Quinn's love life is now being called "inequality".
WCBS 880 is referring to the matter with the tagline "Marching for Equality"
This is the problem with the differently sexual. They just don't have any sense of propriety. The parade is about BEING IRISH not about who you sleep with. It is just me or are gay people totally single minded and completely unable to compartmentalize sex. This, to me, is scarier than anything else about the gay movement - it isn't just the homosexuality it's the oversexuality. They have to advertise who they do "it" with, everywhere they go - no matter how totally inappropriate the forum. Remember when a group of gay folks protested by wearing rainbow scarves in church - DURING THE SERVICES?! A silent scarved protest would have been fine but using it to draw national attention and disrupting the worship of others... C'mon.
The truth is that this sexually based agenda is the central tenet in the lives of many homosexuals - all other principles (including propriety and decorum) be damned. The drive to draw attention to their cause is overshadowed only by the need to force the lifestyle on everyone else around them. On the gay agenda:
''As much as one may wish to live and let live," Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon wrote in 2004, during the same-sex marriage debate in Massachusetts, ''the experience in other countries reveals that once these arrangements become law, there will be no live-and-let-live policy for those who differ. Gay-marriage proponents use the language of openness, tolerance, and diversity, yet one foreseeable effect of their success will be to usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination . . . Every person and every religion that disagrees will be labeled as bigoted and openly discriminated against. The ax will fall most heavily on religious persons and groups that don't go along. Religious institutions will be hit with lawsuits if they refuse to compromise their principles."
Back to the parade: NYC firefighters are also peeved because they can't sport green hats in the parade. The hats are not an authorized part of the uniform and so they are not being allowed. But at least the hats have something to do with the holiday at hand!
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Why do homosexual rights people make sex the center of every last thing they do?
Comment by C-Mom— 2006/03/17 @ 06:44 PM — (Reply)
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Comment by Cate— 2006/03/17 @ 07:41 PM — (Reply)
Certainly talk of sex is used in some public arenas, it serves as an effective attention getter. This is a common need for any social movement, to be heard. And I can see by your comment you heard us ;o)
Any moral dissagreements about the sex asside, I find it hard to accept blanket denials of other basic human rights to gay and lesbian people. We're really just human beings just like you, and the vast majority of us (and this may or may not be acurately represented by the vocal minority at any given moment) just want rights like employment protection, spousal health coverage, and other basic rights.
All I ask is that people recognize the implications of their actions and ideologies on real human beings.
Comment by Jon— 2006/03/22 @ 10:59 PM — (Reply)
I think on this issue we have simply reached an impasse. To you, (I'm being clairvoyant here but just go with it
Furthermore, both of our beliefs go to the very core of who we are. I believe that men are the spiritual offspring of God. And that He is a kind and loving Father who gives us instructions on how to live so that we can maximize our existence and find true joy. So for me the idea of God creating a rationally thinking, feeling human being who can not exist in accordance with His own guidance presents a paradox. You may not believe that He commands against homosexuality - again we are at an impasse. The interpretation of scripture through the ages has allowed for a variety of ideas even within the Christian faith and I can only speak to the tenets I have personally accepted.
As for fair treatment under the law - well, that may be what you want, but I assure that is not what homosexual activists want. There are entire organizations dedicated to "converting" heterosexual people and to undermining followers of any moral belief that opposes such a lifestyle. That is not the way of people who just want fair treatment.
Also, Jon, (I hope you know I don't mean this to sound condescending but here goes) you are really showing your age by referring to employment protection and spousal health coverage as basic human rights. Those are relatively new legislative creations and everyone has had to fight for them. Basic human rights don't even include public acceptance - just public tolerance. An example (one I am loath to make) is that a Skinhead doesn't have to like an African-American, but he does have to let him use the water fountain. Even marriage isn't a civil right if it were, you wouldn't have to fill out an application for a license. It's like driving - a privilege not an entitlement. Contrast that with voting - you fill out a registration card but you don't "apply".
By viewing the overbearing activism, we can only assume that gay Americans want acceptance - not just rights - they want a public acknowledgement that's it's okay to be gay. And to do so would be for many religious Americans to disavow who they are and what they believe. I honestly believe that if the rhetoric were toned down, you'd get most of the rights you want.
Comment by Cate— 2006/04/08 @ 04:35 PM — (Reply)
The attitude of this organization seems absolutely unfair. In the end, lesbians and gays are still humans and I think we should be already used to talk about them or see them. It's not a shame being like this. We just have to understand them.
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