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Controversial Float Spurs Call to Boycott 'Tournament of Roses' Parade (Video)
Top Right News ^ | 12-30-2013 | TRN

Posted on 12/30/2013 7:55:49 AM PST by montag813

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The same Disney that suspended 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson from its A&E network for expressing his religious views about homosexuality (until being forced to reverse it after a massive viewer revolt), clearly has no problem pushing the homosexual agenda in the faces of millions of Americans who watch the annual Tournament of Roses Parade on its ABC network on New Year's Day.

That's right. Two Los Angeles men plan to celebrate their "gay marriage" on a float in this year's parade in Pasadena, California. The move has understandably sparked controversy and even a boycott.

Danny Leclair, 45, and Aubrey Loots, 42, will marry “atop a giant wedding cake-shaped float” sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, according to the Pasadena Star-News.

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“Love comes in many forms and should be honored and should be celebrated,” Leclair told the Star-News, echoing the float’s theme, “Love is the Best Protection.”

But San Diego resident Karen Grube told the Star-News that the Tournament of Roses shouldn’t be involved in an outside group’s “political agenda.”

“Gay marriage is illegal in over 30 states. Why would they promote something that is blatantly illegal?” Grube said. “That’s just stupid.

She has launched a Facebook page, “Boycott the 2014 Rose Parade,”telling people to contact parade organizers and sponsors to ask that the float be removed.

“It used to be a family thing, to get up on New Year’s Day morning and watch the parade,” Grube said. “It no longer is.”

Disney's promotion of the homosexual agenda at the Rose parade follows the ABC Network leading off this year's Thanksgiving Day Parade with a drag queen dancing performance -- outraging millions of American parents.

Rose Parade officials issued a statement to the Star-News saying:

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To: ETL

If you think thats bad, you dont want to see most of ATL...


21 posted on 12/30/2013 8:37:02 AM PST by wyowolf
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To: montag813

I will not watch it.


22 posted on 12/30/2013 8:41:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: montag813

I think Duck (Dynasty) duck quacks along the parade route could be fun. Or standing and turning your back as the float goes by.

626.449.4100 is the phone number for the Tournament of Roses, by the way. Open 8-6.

SaveCalifornia.com also has contact info regarding how to make your voice heard.


23 posted on 12/30/2013 8:44:17 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: montag813

The parade and the football game are off my tv this year. The sodomites can celebrate their new found freedom on some other tv. Ta ta


24 posted on 12/30/2013 8:53:55 AM PST by laweeks
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To: MrB

Hopefully a few empty bottles fly their way


25 posted on 12/30/2013 8:57:42 AM PST by jrg
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To: LALALAW

Rotten eggs (plenty of them) would be a better solution.


26 posted on 12/30/2013 8:59:38 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The same Disney that suspended 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson from its A&E network for expressing his religious views about homosexuality (until being forced to reverse it after a massive viewer revolt), clearly has no problem pushing the homosexual agenda in the faces of millions of Americans who watch the annual Tournament of Roses Parade on its ABC network on New Year's Day.
Just think what their next big "children's" animated blockbuster will be like. Thanks montag813.
27 posted on 12/30/2013 9:01:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: longtermmemmory

Grand Marshall Roman Polansky.


28 posted on 12/30/2013 9:01:37 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: montag813

They lost this viewer.


29 posted on 12/30/2013 9:01:38 AM PST by bgill
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To: 353FMG

Vinegar in a squirt gun... That’s the best way to take care of crows here in Japan.. :p


30 posted on 12/30/2013 9:04:44 AM PST by Bikkuri ( those would have been affected.)
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To: montag813

For the first time in about 65 years the parade will not be on the tv in our home. It will remain that way until an apology from the parade organizers/officials is aired/published, and a guarantee we will NOT ever be subjected to such a disgusting display again.


31 posted on 12/30/2013 9:16:51 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: rockinqsranch

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was bad enough.


32 posted on 12/30/2013 9:17:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Arm_Bears

“As the popular culture degrades, public demonstrations have to become more and more outrageous to ensure that there is an audience.”

Or not; I won’t be watching.


33 posted on 12/30/2013 9:24:10 AM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: montag813

“Love comes in many forms”

OK. Let’s see a float with a penis going in and out of a man’s anus. Face it, that’s what makes a homosexual a homosexual.


34 posted on 12/30/2013 9:49:25 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: montag813
AHF President Michael Weinstein said the boycotters should respect, “the law of the land” and denied the non-profit organization was making a political statement.

The "law of the land" would harshly punish the Rose Bowl organization and Disney if they said, "Heck no, we're not going to let a homosexual couple marry in the parade! Make it a heterosexual couple and we're okay, but let these gay folks find another parade to host their 'wedding.'"

THE LAW OF THE LAND prohibits the Rose Bowl, Disney, and any other institution, organization, or business from doing that.

We don't need, and have never needed, laws to prohibit gay marriage. What we NEED are laws protecting the rights of people to peacefully discriminate against open homosexuality if they so choose. With that protection, open in-your-face homosexuality is pushed away into its own corner and out of the mainstream, which is better for everybody.

The way the laws are now, Americans are punished for peacefully, civilly, and rightly discriminating against -- or boycotting -- all demonstrations of open homosexuality.

35 posted on 12/30/2013 9:52:10 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: montag813

The guy on the right looks ill to me.


36 posted on 12/30/2013 10:17:59 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: montag813

I won’t be watching it.


37 posted on 12/30/2013 11:07:46 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: blueunicorn6

Liberals really hate it when you bring up the stark reality of what they support.


38 posted on 12/30/2013 11:09:05 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: montag813
“Love comes in many forms and should be honored and should be celebrated,” . . . “Love is the Best Protection.”

I would not celebrate romantic "love" between a married man and a woman other than his wife. I would not celebrate romantic "love" between a man and his mother/sister/daughter. I would not celebrate romantic "love" between a man and a domestic animal. I would not celebrate romantic "love" between two men. No, "love" should not always be celebrated. I will not watch the parade this year, or probably ever again.

39 posted on 12/30/2013 11:24:12 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: montag813
“Love comes in many forms and should be honored and should be celebrated,” Leclair told the Star-News, echoing the float’s theme, “Love is the Best Protection.”

"I love my doggie. Can I have a float too ?"

This is disgusting. For sure I will NOT be watching the "Tournament of Faggots Parade".

40 posted on 12/30/2013 1:01:50 PM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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