Bush: No to 'Gay Pride Month'

WorldNetDaily ^ | June 15, 2004

[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.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Let's keep the government out of our bedrooms!

Did you find someone from the government in your bedroom?

[Mr. Mojo]

Couldn't they settle for a DAY, what's this month stuff.

How about just giving them a few islands in Micronesia instead .....like where we once had leper colonies. Every day can then be as gay as they wish.

[Lukasz]

'Gay Pride Month'

hahaha, one of most stupid ideas in the world history.

[SuziQ]

"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

Excuse me? Since when is it an 'equal right' to have the government declare and fund a special day for a small special interest group? Does this mean that I can expect the government to fund a 'Catholic Pride' day?
I didn't think so.

[weegee]

By what authority do federal offices "declare" this? Where is the oversight?

[scott7278]

"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,"

Last I checked, there was no Straight Pride Month, so what exactly are they being denied?

[weegee]

July will be "Pedophilia Pride" month ...

NAMBLA had considered December as the children like presents and sitting on Santa's lap but they have opted for October instead. They like the door to door delivery known as Halloween.

[Irish Eyes]

During the Clinton administration, the annual day was supported with taxpayer dollars and government facilities.

You have to be kidding. We paid for it?

[babygene]

I don't want to be insensitive, but why do we need a Fag pride month?

These people are sick... Do we "celebrate" other illnesses, physical or mental? What a bunch of CRAP. I can see it now... National Toenail Fungus Pride Month.

[Patangeles]

She's like a woman. She needs to be "bitch-slapped" back into the closet, where she'll actually be happier, but won't admit it.

Can you imagine the WH declaring a month Gay Pride month?

Give'em an inch and they'll take a yard---even if they don't really want it.

[weegee]

[bikerman]

Disney already beat Bush to it.

[weegee]

MAY Is Mental Health Month. We can cover the sorrow of all those afflicted with antisocial fetishes in one sweep.

[Guillermo]

It's no surprise that the fags pick June, the traditional month for weddings, as their "pride" month.

And people say they have no agenda...how naive.

[John Lenin]

It's time to vote the Barney Frank's out of office.

[Patangeles]

Good point! Let's declare October to be Christian pride month! The universities surely will honor that celebration!

And November can be White History month.

What I said!

[John Lenin]

This homosexual prejudice against heterosexuals is due in part to many homosexuals believing they are superior to heterosexuals. Professor Martin Duberman admits that "classism" (elitism, a sense of superiority) is a prevalent feeling among homosexuals.14