Posted on 06/14/2004 11:18:07 PM PDT by scripter
Homosexual activists are fuming over President Bush's refusal to declare June "Gay Pride Month."
Nevertheless, without official support, several groups of federal workers are still planning activities.
Leonard Hirsch, president of Federal GLOBE — the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Federal Employee’s organization — told the Washington Blade, a homosexual weekly, that events are scheduled at the departments of Transportation, State, Interior and the USDA, while other agencies have said they will not sanction events without White House approval.
"We have continued to be boxed in a Catch-22 because agencies are saying that they can't provide support or statements unless the White House puts forth a proclamation," he said. "And of course the White House has not."
During the Clinton administration, the annual day was supported with taxpayer dollars and government facilities.
Allison Nichol, president of the Department of Justice Gay Pride group, said she is "not at all confident" that her request for the department to sponsor a Pride event would be approved. Nichol said that last year, the FBI scheduled a Pride event but Attorney General John Ashcroft canceled it.
"Given what's happened in the last two years, one can hope that the attorney general recognizes that it is his job to represent the equal rights of all citizens," Hirsch said. "I was sanguine that they would make a different determination this year, and I look forward to being surprised."
Last year, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who strongly criticized Ashcroft and the Department of Justice's decision not to allow its employees to celebrate Gay Pride Month, scheduled an alternative celebration for federal employees at the Capitol.
Nichol said she was in discussion with officials to provide an alternative setting for her events and hinted that her group is considering legal action against the Justice Department.
Prior to 2003, taxpayers paid for overhead expenses, including use of the Great Hall, set-up and breakdown of microphones and added security costs because the event is held after hours.
Good for President Bush. I don't want my tax dollars being used for something I have absolutely no interest in funding.
I am willing to accept the non-euphemastic "Sexual Perversion Pride" month.
How could one possibly be proud about a proclivity of sticking one's penis into another man's rectum?
Gay Pride Month? How about "Unprotected Anal Sex Causing a Fatal Disease Month"? Or "Weird Sexual Perverts Obsessed With Themselves Month" or "Homosexual Pedophile Month"?
At the start of the Civil War thanks to the industrial revolution, the state of New York had a higher gross product than all the southern states combined. The truth is as well as a moral evil, slavery was an economic drag and retarded the growth of the southern states.
And that would be after we females have STRAIGHT WOMEN PRIDE MONTH!
And just what would they have to be proud about?
We have paid for millions of things we would never have supported any other way, but by tax dollars.
Could we vote on that please, I really am tired of all these holidays.
No wonder they need big government and higher taxes, the list just goes on and on and on and on...
Let's keep the government out of our bedrooms!
Let's keep queers out of mine and my kid's lives and my taxdollars while we're at it.
Sounds like the "Right Thing" to do!
It's no surprise that the fags pick June, the traditional month for weddings, as their "pride" month.
If you really feel that way then why do you keep trying to bring the rest of us into it with your "celebrations"?
Yes, and isn't that wonderful news? Stay there, fagot!
And Kerry's response to this was?
The moral courage of GWB -- one reason why more Freepers who are believers should be contributing to the Pray for the President thread.
Memo to the dingaling who authored that quote: you have no control over the colour of your eyes or your skin (artificial alterations such as coloured contact lenses and sunburn excepted), but you have absolute control over your choice of religion and your sexual practices.
**Homosexual activists are fuming over President Bush's refusal to declare June "Gay Pride Month."**
What about June as a month honoring the fathers of our children, i. e. Father's Day?
**During the Clinton administration, the annual day was supported with taxpayer dollars and government facilities.**
Not this year! The people have spoken.
The message is you too can be one of us, it's your choice.
It is part of the brainwashing.
How else can they grow their numbers? The children have been the target group all along.
"Heather has two mommies" started at least 15 years ago in the grade schools.
IMHO there is a master plan.
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