Posted on 04/13/2006 8:07:57 AM PDT by WildPlum
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of gay and lesbian parents hoping to take their families to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll plan to start lining up Friday evening to make sure they get tickets for the Monday event.
Thousands of tickets — an estimated 16,000 last year — are given away on a first-come-first-come basis beginning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
National Park Service officials said Wednesday that children of all ages may attend as long as there is at least one child 7 years old or younger, and no more than two adults per group.
First lady Laura Bush's office issued a statement saying all families are welcome to attend.
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LOL!! Shocked?
If you weren't so certain of your own sanctimony, you'd be shocked by some of the comments on this thread. They're hateful, not only toward gay people, but toward the President and his wife.
If your conscience permits you to advocate the exclusion of gay people from an event that has always been open to all, and to use it as an occasion for the lowest forms of locker room references and snickering, well, that's your business.
Perhaps he read the article, which says:
The gay and lesbian parents say they won't carry signs or chant slogans, but will wear rainbow-colored leis as a unifying symbol.A unifying symbol... a unifying political symbol is why they are going. So now we go back to what Antoninus asked you:
I seem to remember Cindy Sheehan getting kicked out of the State of the Union Address for promoting a political cause. Did you protest that action as well? Are the Bush admin bigots for not letting her stay?Answering his questions may demonstrate some inconsistencies on your part.
It is about excluding ADULT SEXUAL BEHAVIOR from a children's event.
Homosexual sex (or any sex) has no place around children. The fact these homosexual practitioners are going to EXPLICITLY use children to declare how specific adults achieve sexual gratification in the bedroom is reprehensible.
This is not about attending an event to roll easter eggs. This is about attending and event and USING CHILDREN to declare how an adult associated with a child performs sex acts.
They are not going there to just to attend. They are going there to publicly proclaim their sex act.
We would not be so patient with someone attending the egg roll with a t-shirt about animal sex, bondage, or any other sex fetish.
The hoosexuals are NOT going there to "blend in".
To the armies of God, if you are not condemning homosexuals or illegals or Muslims, and actively seeking to exclude them from any contact with the pure, you have a malformed conscience and deserve the same shunning that these lowest forms of life should endure.
Just watch how George W. and Laura treat EVERYBODY at this Egg Roll. They will treat them all the same, and welcome them all, and hug all the children, if they can. And they will be cordial and gracious to the parents, even to those who despise them and might create a scene.
Meanwhile, the pure will be tittering in their corners, thanking God that they don't have to rub shoulders with all this vermin.
You can't pull the wool over my eyes nor the eyes of many others here. Your support of moral equivalency and efforts to make stalward social conservatives look fanatical is not unnoticed.
Kids as young as 10 years old have heard about abortion. And little kids were brought along to civil rights demonstrations and marches in the 60s to promote civil rights for black people.
Keep equating the pro-life movement with the pro-gay movement, then everyone can see what you're about.
Yes. Let's do that.
That way, no kid will grow up with a single mother, or a single father.
Hell, let's just legislate to have every kid that's not a member of a Bible-believin', washed-in-the-blood-of-Jesus household with a mother who doesn't work and a father who uses every occasion to emphasize that HE is the head of the house, be taken away from that parent (the only one he's ever known) and be put in an orphanage.
As long as it's a Christian orphanage, though, everything will be just dandy.
That is the point of the homosexuals. They want to publicly declare how they achieve sexual gratification and by hiding behind innocents they KNOW people of character will not disrupt the fun of the children.
Homosexuls seek to use the good conscience of the people who will not allow sexual deviants to ruin the fun for children as much as possible. When they DO get disruptive the secret service will escort them out.
It is telling that Bill Clinton used to have to filter his crowds.
I truly don't see anything wrong with it. If they don't say anything, who cares? Now, if they started chanting, or holding signs, my opinion would change. If you're really concerned for the children, I'm sure a parent could come up with an explanation as to why many of the parents are wearing multi-colored leis if they don't want to get into it with their kids. It would be like telling Christians they couldn't wear crosses.
Your are hopless.
I wrote in reference to "second parent" adoption promoted by homosexuals.
Thus if a child has one female parent, they do not get a "second mother". (it equally would apply to polygamists)
You really would be happier with the other DUmmies.
"Kids see gay stuff every single day. Whether you like it or not, they're not going away."
Now why on earth would kids be "seeing gay stuff every single day"? Could it possibly be "gay" activism and propaganda they're seeing?
Why does "they're not going away" remind me of slogans like "we're here, we're queer, get used to it"?
I would vote for Easter to be given to the queers as the holiday has nothing to do with Jesus. Ironic that non-breeders want to participate in a pagan fertility celebration anyway! Pesach shalom
The celebration of Easter DOES have to do with celebrating the resurrection of our risen Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ.
On the other hand rolling Easter eggs in a WH ceremony that had turned into a gay/homosexual/lesbian way to flaunt their lifestyle with kids (I feel sorry for these kids raised in unnatural, sexual perverted, abominable lifestyles) has nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. Actually I think Bush should cancel the whole pagan charade, and be rid of the gay-homosexual-lesbian charade once & for all. But GW Bush & his liberal wife Laura are too PC to remove something that has turned into a political charade.
"We don't want to be 'in your face', we just want to be accepted as normal. So until we are accepted as normal, we're going to be in your face."
I think that most gays have had "issues" in their lives (i.e. abuse, self loathing, parental issues, etc) that makes them feel outside of the norm. They gravitate toward others of their ilk. There is no law against being gay. They only protest because they still feel they are not acceptable to society - not so much because they are gay, but because they don't feel personally accepted. They think that they can force people to accept them as individuals. I personally think they all need medication and intense psychotherapy. But hey, that's just my opinion.
I can believe that you would look at an innocent child and think that. I really can.
"If you weren't so certain of your own sanctimony, you'd be shocked by some of the comments on this thread. They're hateful, not only toward gay people,"
1. You're misusing the word "sanctimony". DBeers isn't posing as a saint, he's shining the light of truth on iniquity.
2. How has anyone been hateful towards homosexuals on this thread?
3. Why do you pretend that homosexuals aren't planning to use the Easter Egg party for political points? If any homosexuals and children wanted to attend so their kids could have fun, they would have just gotten tickets like any other people. But no, it's a big announcement and plan to publicize homosexuality. They've said that themselves.
How many more of your fantasies are you going to publish on FR?
There is no other reason for a homosexual to use a child as an agenda billboard.
Your denial only points you out as an advocate of the same agenda.
I can't believe this statement. I feel like vomiting:
"It would be like telling Christians they couldn't wear crosses."
So a symbol which means "I heart same sex acts" is comparable to a cross that Christians wear to remind them of Jesus Christ's sacrifice.
That's disgusting and hateful.
Does the border have to be drug onto EVERY SINGLE THREAD on this forum?
Alcoholics who quit drinking are still alcoholics, and most of them still have an attraction to alcohol.
Bump.
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