[Unam Sanctam]

I'm not defending the action, but it was not a "call to ban homosexuals", but a call to ban homosexual activity. A person is not the same thing as what a person chooses to do.

[sinkspur]

"It's just ignorance is all,"

Yep.

[narses]

Will you defend laws against "crimes against nature" or side with the modernists who run from such straightforward, authentic Catholic lawmaking? Will you speak up or remain silent?

[HoundsTooth_BP]

(But 12-year-old Caitlin Kinney, attending the meeting with her mother, said she supported the commissioners' initial vote.)

This little girl is right. It is just awful to think that we ever let these things out of the closet. They are in our face and they should be banned. We ban smoking and IMO these people are more dangerous.

[ASTM366]

HOMOSEXUALITY is a vile and repulsive behavior.

It is an unhealthy lifestyle that spreads disease and is the leading cause of AIDS.

Homosexual males account for 90% of all AIDS cases.

Any behavior that spreads an incurable disease should be banned.

[No Dems 2004]

Too bad they got cold feet. Contrary to what the USSC says, there's nothing unconstitutional about banning gays.

[Melinda in TN]

I live 20 minutes from Dayton in a small community smaller and just as conservative. The people are not "dumb hicks" as mentioned in another thread but they did go about this thing all wrong. They never said that they would ban gays. They just want to make Dayton and Rhea County an undesirable place for them to live. Every small town in TN feels this way but don't normally go public with it. The worst thing they did was to let it get into the news media. Small towns here have always handled their town problems with something called "Southern country justice" and it has been working for years and will continue to work. The people of Dayton and other small towns like mine are not isolationist as accused in a news article. They welcome new people to the community. They are the friendliest people on earth but are very conservative, independent and protective of their own. All they want is to keep a decent lifestyle in a community where their kids are safe and free to grow up without being exposed to the darker sides of life. Homosexuals are the vilest of freaks next to pedophiles in this area and they are not welcome in a family oriented community like Dayton.

I'm glad they rescinded their request because all that would do is to make the freaks force themselves on this beautiful community just to make a point. I feel like they were overwhelmed with the media coverage about gay marriage happening in other states and fear that it might come here. They should have thought it out better or at least kept it private.

Oh and yes, they do own computers and other modern conveniences. :-)

[ZULU]

Can anyone humm "Dueling Banjos"???

Too bad Tennessee caved to the Sodomites. They were right in every way here.

Tolerate these punks and they march naked in the streets, kiss each other in public, spread virulent venereal diseases, equate their perverted liasons with marriage, discredit and attack decent American institutions (e.g. the Boy Scouts), soil their marriage beds, attempt to spread their filth through school books, and in other ways demonstrate they were better off being relegated to the closet - WITH THE DOOR NAILED SHUT!!