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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on May 25, 2008, 02:17:08 PM
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Source: Birmingham News
Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford won't sign a proclamation for an annual gay pride celebration or allow banners on city property, and said he will not grant the sponsoring group a parade permit.
Langford said he turned down the requests this week from Central Alabama Pride because it is inappropriate for government to endorse a lifestyle. Pride Week is next month and often includes a parade on Southside and other events.
"My policy is don't ask because it's not my business, and don't put me in the position to make it my business," Langford said Friday. "I don't condone it, but I also am not sitting in judgment on anyone."
... "I don't think I'm intolerant, I just don't condone the lifestyle," he said. "Your personal lifestyle should be nobody's issue but yours. It's not a civil rights issue, it's a personal choice issue."
Read more: http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/n...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3323945
And they're off
LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Sat May-24-08 02:48 PM
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1. Looks like it might be time for another march on Birmingham
Mayor Langford sounds like a real SOB.
texasleo (1000+ posts) Sat May-24-08 05:42 PM
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20. He's a 60-year-old black man from Alabama
I doubt that gay rights are at the top of his list of priorities.
NOLALady (1000+ posts) Sat May-24-08 06:44 PM
Response to Reply #20
22. Civil rights should be the priority of all people,
especially black people. Damn. He should know better.
DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Sat May-24-08 07:13 PM
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30. Obviously the lessons were lost upon him. MLK would've been justified smacking him upside his head.
Instead, he just spins in his grave.
A lively bonfire! :-)
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"I don't think I'm intolerant, I just don't condone the lifestyle," he said. "Your personal lifestyle should be nobody's issue but yours. It's not a civil rights issue, it's a personal choice issue."
First smart thing I've heard from a Democrat politician in years.
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Yes, DUmbasses, I'm sure the staunch Republican Dr. Martin Luther King would be sooooooooo on board for an immoral display and sickening spectacle known as a "gay pride" parade.
:whatever:
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Since when is a fudge packer parade a "civil right"? and they wonder why we look at them funny.... :censored:
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I'm for rights, but the parades annoy me.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Hlsl7bPQg[/youtube]
I think Ralphie May says it best.
*Red*
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"magically delicious" :rofl:
hi 5.
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LOL H5 for introducing me to Ralphie May
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Go Ralphie!
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mayor langford
(http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/11/medium_LANGFORD.jpg)
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One needs to look no further than what The Folsom Street Fair denegrates into to know the mayor made the right decision :-)
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LOL
"magically delicious"
:rofl:
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One needs to look no further than what The Folsom Street Fair denegrates into to know the mayor made the right decision :-)
Definite H5.
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I'm for rights, but the parades annoy me.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Hlsl7bPQg[/youtube]
I think Ralphie May says it best.
*Red*
You can take a d*ck in the a$$, then you can damn sure take a joke :lmao:
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"They done took the rainbow" :rotf:
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The blacks I worked with were highly offended when these queers tried to associate their so called rights with MLK and the civil rights of their race.
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"I don't think I'm intolerant, I just don't condone the lifestyle," he said. "Your personal lifestyle should be nobody's issue but yours. It's not a civil rights issue, it's a personal choice issue."
First smart thing I've heard from a Democrat politician in years.
Sounds like he needs the traditional religious Black constituency (and in fairness probably is much more aligned with it) than he needs these in-your-face poufters who will piss them off. Under the bus with them!
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Here you go :-) Warning very graphic!!!http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php (http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php) I believe one of the Dixies here found this a while back :cheersmate:
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The queers have set their sights on Birmingham.....soon to be known as
San Fransissyco East.
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Well, that was an education. Never paid much attention before! All sympathy I had for the gay lifestyle just went down the sewers of San Francisco. Someone once said San Francisco was a shithole, now I know why! Jeez!
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Now let's get this straight :tongue: They call this gay pride why? :rotf: :rotf:
I'm really done now!