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.
When I was new, I kept my mouth shut and bided my time. I'm no longer new yet I still keep my mouth shut most of the time. You're new and provoking attacks... that makes you kitty litter.
P.S. The President, that would be PRESIDENT BUSH, is right. If all people are equal (a designation proudly touted by the left) then why is there a need for a declaration.
UH...ARE THESE NOT FEDERAL AGENCIES??? How dare they hold events "celebrating" people who proclaim their love of sodomy without White House approval?
TRANSPORTATION ("Dykes on Bikes")
STATE ("Gays Around the Globe")
INTERIOR (ahem...)
AGRICULTURE ("How Many Eggs can you...ahem...)
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of sexual dysfunction.
Go ahead, make my day and support the already on the books, 2nd amendmendment also.
Buh-bye TROLL........
Your mind is warped pal.
When you gave up your identity did you throw away your brains too ?
LOL!! I'm not holding my breath, waiting for either one of your suggestions to be considered, outstanding as they may be.
How about we start a poll on how long he lasts? I say no more than another 30 minutes...
meow..... Is that the viking kitty I hear ?
Trolling for a date?
You, being a self-described ''liberal'' (for which misnomer one should probably read ''totalitarian'', in that you are dedicated to telling all the rest of us how to live and what to think, under penalty of law), are neither honest, nor objective, nor even remotely a philophile.
Here's a hint, laddiebuck: words have a distinct denotation, or, in plain English, words mean something, and the ''something'' is not subject to random redefinition by any but would-be totalitarians.
Do have a nice day, won't you?
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