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 Employees 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.
OF course you can play!
:) Unfortunately, the kittens seem to be napping. It would be interesting to know if this was one of the "regulars".
Simple:
I could go on and on. By the way, I live in the Bay Area where I see gays and their consequences every day.
How does disliking gays translate to fearing gays? I sure as hell don't fear you. I just hold you in utter contempt.
Words are not hateful unless they are acted on. Should we arrest people for name calling ?
I put my call in already... guess they're not around at the moment.
LoL's!
Slaves rule!
Yep, no slaves, no country.
Oh, how I dream of being a well remembered foreslave, one who has been bestowed with the honor of creating such a wonderfully powerful nation.
Alas, it was the forefathers who used the mentality of the slaves by sneaking it away from them, placing it in their chest of dreams and creating our country without the omnipotent slaves being the wiser!
Nasty way of doing business for sure.
D@mn that Lincoln anyway, just think of the status we could relish as a country if HE wouldn't have stifled our growth the way he did.
How long have you been here and off topic for crying out loud, and NOW you have just realized such?
bump!
During the Clinton administration, the annual day was supported with taxpayer dollars and government facilities
Ummm why was our tax dollars going to support this??
"yet I can still see the hate "
a man of vision
How about Kick a Liberal in the Nads Day....will they pay for that?
Wow. Can't we all just get along?
'Mr Gere, for crimes against rodents, this court sentences you to death'
guess not
So, I'm a troll because I don't agree with your wacked-out views? How about this, you're a homophobe because you don't like gays! Is that fair? Of course not, but that's how you Republicans think. You're not American because you don't support the war! You're anti-American because you don't drink the Bush Admin kool-aid! You're going to hell because you don't hate gays like I do! Republicans = hypocrites and facists
He L.V, You must like this site, since it seems you are here often. What's the matter, can't you find any intelligent coversation at a lib site-or gay site ??
Why would we want to glamorize a perverted and disease-prone lifestyle? I have no objections to gays and lesbians living as they want but I resent it when they try to flaunt it in my face with taxpayer dollars. 'Nuff said.
Unspeakable is an understatement.
I believe the day is coming and coming perhaps sooner than later, when we will have to take back the country by force.
Our country is becoming more and more polarized daily and in many ways we are more polarized now than we were prior to the Civil War.
I am watching now today American families actually breaking apart over idealogy. Familiy relatives who are no longer on speaking terms with other members of their own family over politics. Is this happening is your family or with people you know? ~ It is in fact happening all over the country.
America is fast becoming Balkanized into not only idealogical groupings but multi-cultural groupings as well. Things like illegal immigration, racial politics, the blatant push towards socialism and their enforcer 'political correctness' is going to ultimately plunge our country in a vicious civil war.
The only question is - When does it reach the point when conservatives finally say 'enough is enough'? What is going to be the fuse that finally sets it off?
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