The article notes "...(Spokane) also has a large core of Democrats and libertarians who share the West's live-and-let-live philosophy" seeks to imply that those opposed are "meddling" in the affairs of homosexuals. However, it's the homosexual minority who are meddling in the affairs of the heterosexual majority.
The issue is that the homosexuals do NOT want to simply "Live and let live." They already have that, and that is not enough.
Instead, they want to indoctrinate new converts to homosexuality, as evidenced by the last sentence of the article:
"It would help youth struggling with their sexuality to realize they don't have to go away to a big city to be gay. You can be gay right here in Spokane," he said.
How about a GAY Island in Indonesia!
Canada?
Gawd--they already have Provincetown Massachusetts, essentially all of NYC below 14th St. and all of San Francisco.
Why is the Pacific Northwest a magnet for separatist movements? Isn't Spokane home to a lot of skinheads too? Skinheads vs. gay men must be entertaining.
ANyone else get the irony in this statement?
If they can start an exclusive community, can we?
I don't guess they would mind a hetrosexual only neighborhood too, then.
I may have to think about this one. It might not be so bad if these militant gays had their own neighborhood, stores, etc. since it would keep them out of ours!
People keep saying only one or two percent of the population is gay, but they sure seem to get around. Even given their disproportionate influence and tons of good publicity, the numbers seem higher than that.
That would do wonders for the business community.
I venture to say that most straights and family types folks would avoid the place if that were to become a reality.
The following is an interesting article; somehow it just seemed to fit with your post.
Semantic Infiltration and How to Combat It
Chuck Venhuizen - January 2005
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/semantic-infiltration-venhuizen.htm
Semantic infiltration (SI) is a phenomenon of language that occurs when certain people deliberately replace one word or phrase deemed offensive with another term that better frames and strengthens their point of view.
4. "gay" / "lesbian" / "bi-sexual" / "transgendered": these words have facilitated the unfounded notion that homosexuals are a distinct class deserving special rights and protections = "participant in homosexual acts"
Are they going to rename the neighborhood Sodom?
It would be *very* interesting to see the crime statistics a neighborhood like this would generate ... domestic violence, drugs and such.
Is this not illegal under the federal fair housing laws? You are not able to say this is a "black" or "white" or "itallian" or "jewish" or "X" neighborhood.
Now if it is a mere behavior and not a status then perhaps they would be allowed, HOWEVER if there is ANY area law against discrimination against sexual orientation then this project is totally illegal as a matter of law.
The exact language of the federal fair housing laws is under federal laws at http://www.findlaw.com.
Gay activists in this staid Washington city are planning to create a neighborhood of gay-oriented homes, businesses and nightlife are these the same people who have been carrying signs, and parading in g-strings claiming the right to inclusion? Now what, they want to be segregated? Indeed these super-gays do not speak for the entire gay population. And they are doing immeasurable harm to the majority of gays who want to blend into society just as most heterosexuals do.
Since when is what you do in the bedroom determine what community you live in? Of course the inevitable has happened. They have not only come out of the closet in the bedroom, but they have gone into the streets. Now the streets are not big enough and they want an entire community of gays so that they can do whatever it is that they feel they have to do in public. But then this would not be the fist such community of homosexuals, Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind.
Should there be any social differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals when it comes to dining in public? What is the point of all this? If you take the time to read “The Death of Right and Wrong” by Tammy Bruce you will find a convincing theory. In part, she believes that the super-gays are suffering from a malignant narcissism. Instead of seeking to normalize their behavior, they cannot bear to confront the fact that they are not normal. Laura Schlessinger was kicked off the air for saying that. What she meant to say is that only 10% of the population is gay, and by any definition of normal, they are not. When 90% of the population engages in heterosexual behavior, it becomes the norm. In any other abnormality, doctors and psychologists would treat it, but the super-gays have convinced the ignorant masses that are easily persuaded by people in the media like Katie Coric, who champion the gay liberation movement. When the media elites agree with a position they call the proponents “activists”, when they don’t they call them “radicals.” If wanting to create an entire community that consists of only gays is not radical then nothing is.
The press would have us believe that only evangelical Christians do not want to see a an entire neighborhood consist exclusively of gays, but it’s simply a way to try and show how unreasonable Christians can be. Is it reasonably to exclude everyone from the community because they are heterosexual? Of course the media will never suggest that, since they obviously believe that a gay neighborhood is a good thing, and long overdue. The fact is that many people are becoming sick of the networks and major newspapers telling them what they should believe. FOX news is practically the only fare and balanced programming on television. Which explains its mass appeal.
Democrats do not share a “live and let live” philosophy. Just examine what they are now doing to Bill Cosby. Since he has been speaking out against democratic black “leaders” which should read “misleaders”, they have dug up some woman who says she was drugged, unconscious, and while she was out, Mr. Cosby fondled her. Give me a break, as John Stossel would say. When he as a compliant Blackman, he was the funniest man on earth, now that he has “seen the light”, he is a pariah. It’s too obvious to even discuss.
Sounds like apartheid to me.
What would these folks say if someone proposed to have a "married and chaste singles" zone in the city, where LGBTs or singles living together in sin would not be permitted? How would that be different from what they are proposing?
We live in a country where you can have women's colleges but not men's colleges, women's clubs but not men's clubs, gay schools but not straight schools. There is something basically unjust and discriminative about such rules. They cannot meet the tests of justice, rationality, or constitutionality in the long run.
What a great IDEA. Put them all together in a GAYTTO