It's a matter of principle......and moral values......since (I suspect) you are from somewhere in liberal New England, neither of those concepts would likely matter to you.......
Here in the midwest, and in the south.......these things do matter......and we don't really care what you "Yankees" think about it........
We will thank you to keep your opinions and politics to yourselves.....
It's interesting to note that last time I checked, the vast majority of the members of our Armed Services come from the south and midwest.......we raise our children to respect others, and value the morals and principles that made our country the world power that it is today.......without our "values" you would likely be speaking a different language by now, so, again, we'll thank you to refrain from your righteous criticism when we find that a couple of fags, in an intentional display of their "lifestyle" is determined to be offensive to a community, and action is taken........
Nobody really cares that these two girls are homosexuals.......and if they had kept their mouths shut about it, and came to the prom in "gender appropriate" clothing, no one would have given a damn, but they insisted on making a spectacle of themselves, and earned the indignation of the school and the community.
I would bet that if one of the girls decided to come to the prom dressed as a male panther, she would have received the same treatment.......see how that works........keep your sexual proclivities in the bedroom, and you will get along fine with everyone.....
doc
New England turned liberal about 40 years ago much to my surprise. Very Conservative it was until the State Colleges, and State Teaching Colleges, began to turn out liberal graduates.
Looking back I see it was the educated and people from MONEY that were the first to turn liberal, the farmers, small shop keepers, manual workers, our fisherman, were the last hold outs for Conservatives.
As an area of many Catholics of 1-2 st. generation born Americans, with large family's and who lived by their Church, they could not be but Conservative. Grandma cried as the Congrational Church threw out a Pastor for as they saw it his liberal ways.
Then as a teenager I watched as the Catholic Church up ended all that. 2,000 years of tradition went down the tubes, all the century's of faith took a dramatic bottoms up.
I watched all this from an insiders view point, in my graduating class there were just 2 of us that was not Catholic. All my friends were Catholic, my friend and I spent more time with our friends at CYO then our own demonations services.
I saw the shattered look on the faces of my friends parents when they attended their very first New Mass, the Latin, French, or Polish services were gone. There was no more feeling of Mystery, the Priest faced the congregation, It was very Episcopal in nature.
It took almost a generation for Catholics to get use to these new ideas, become less Conservative and accept intermarriage between faiths other then Catholic, divorce, and 10 Hail Marys for an abortion, incest, no such thing as Excommunication any more.
Then the Faith of my Fathers underwent a huge change also, the Charismatics came to town, before that time few gave any thought to being SAVED. You were Baptised, that was that.
A very exciting time to be alive never knowing what was going to happen next.
Surprise, the libs in the midwest began to call our men fighting in Asia Baby killers, the boys that went home could not get jobs, my own Husband and I traveled with him wearing civilian clothering so as not to become a target for the foolishness that effected the country at that time.
In my neck of New England a returning serviceman was placed at the top of Civil Service jobs.
Our Ship Yard would find our Vets a job just to get them in the door. Then train them in something, welding, to the sail loft.
At no time have we in this comunity ever put the military down, our children, their fathers into grandfathers and their fathers have served with pride.
Today it is the wealthy and law makers that are Liberals, lazy teachers and some of the clergy.
We had a base sticker on the bumper of our car that we covered when traveling outside military areas. The Libs hated us, and they scared the heck out of us.
We the humble and meek. those of us who make a living by the sweat of our brow are the Conservatives, we march on wondering what the heck is the matter with the Libs. How did we come to this point, what ever happend to tar and feathering undesirables out of town.
Rant ended for now.
