Posted on 12/03/2004 11:01:59 PM PST by noiseman
Well folks, it appears that there is a VERY interesting nexus between the Mayor Hickenlooper/no Merry Christmas sign controversy, and the Parade of Lights/Gay Indians OK, church group not OK outrage. The Chinook Fund (www.chinookfund.org) is an organization which Denver Mayor Hickenlooper co-founded before becoming Mayor. According to their website, the Chinook Fund issued a $7,000.00 grant to the Two Spirit Society of Denver (gay Indian group) in 2004.
When asked by 630 KHOW radio if he agreed with the Downtown Denver Partnership's decision to allow the Two Spirit group to have a float in the Parade of Lights, while Faith Bible Chapel was denied the same permission, Mayor Hickenlooper initially answered that he didn't want to tell another group what to do, then when pressed further, simply refused to answer (and this was after he reversed his own edict regarding the Merry Christmas sign).
Anyone see a conflict of interest (or worse) here?
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Homosexual Agenda Overlapping with Moral Absolutes Ping. Apologies to those of you who are on both lists. If I were smart, I'd have a third list consisting of those who are on both. Too bad for you I'm not.
The Mayor of Denver sounds like a cousin of Mayor Noisome of SF. Maybe they're friends.
Atheism meets the "gay" agenda, and the result is - terminal kookdom with an evil edge.
If I lived there, I would make some HUGE signs and take them to the parade.
If anyone wants on/off either pinglist, pingify me~!
Can we have a 'Normal People" float?
I wonder if Felipe Rose of the Village People is a charter member.
Of course not - it would make everyone else feel "unsafe" or "unwanted". Couldn't have that.
"Dances with Poodles"
Funny you should mention that. When the San Francisco gay marriage fiasco was going on, Mayor Hickenlooper was asked about it on a local talk show and refused to condemn Newsome's actions outright (he tap danced around it, basically). He also tipped his hand, implying that he supports "gay marriage", without explicitly stating it. Even more amazing, is that Hickenlooper has given each of his staff members a copy of a book called "The Rise of the Creative Class", by Richard Florida (a professor at Carnegie Mellon University), and has announced a major city initiative based upon this book. The crackpot theory expressed within its pages is basically that economically vibrant cities get that way today by catering to gays, bohemians, and the "arts" (not the classical type, but more the "edgy", controversial type). These types of people are part of what Florida calls the "Creative Class." Within his book, Florida then ranks U.S. cities according to an index he has concocted based upon these factors. So what city tops his list of the most creative, and therefore most economically vibrant? Why, San Francisco, of course. After the City by the Bay come such places as Austin, Seattle, and Boston. Cities making the bottom of his list include Memphis, Las Vegas, and Greensboro. Only one BIG problem... As documented by the Wall Street Journal and the American Enterprise, among others, when measured by standard criteria of economic growth, Florida's bottom cities almost uniformly OUTPERFORM the cities at the top of his list, i.e. his whole theory is FALSE! Yet Mayor Hickenlooper has never acknowledged his sizable blunder, and has even gone so far as to talk about using city funds to hire Richard Florida as a consultant! My gut instinct is that Florida himself is homosexual and is using this "theory" to attempt to legitimize cities' catering to he and his "friends." (check out his website at: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~florida/ and see what conclusion you draw). Hickenlooper is an elitist liberal who uncritically swallows whole every nutbag theory that comes along, yet can't see the sense behind maintaining a "Merry Christmas" sign at Christmas time, until half the population of the Country slaps some sense back into him. He is one who needs to be watched vigilantly in the future.
BTW, Hickenlooper has also started an initiative to "end homeless in Denver in 10 years." Wonder how long it will take before our streets look (and smell) just like those in the utopia of San Francisco?
Hmmm - thanks for the "rest of the story". I guess my intuition was right.
Looks like some fodder for Googling, Grampa Dave!
I remember reading about that stoopid theory - that a large "gay" population is the cure to everything that ails civilization. Only someone whose brain has been replaced with intestines comes up with crap like that.
I don't feel very tolerant today.
:-)
Just out of curiosity, is there a Mrs. Hickenlooper?
Sort of.... He's married, but she doesn't use his name (typical).
BTW, I had a typo in the last line of my previous post. He's not out to end "homeless", just "homelessness."
"Concocted" just about summarizes it all. A former colleague of this professor told me that its a well known secret in the sociology community that Florida fudged his statistics and that real data doesn't support any of his claims. I think it's only a matter of time before somebody exposes it all.
I think the theory itself has been convincingly shown to be false, but a further exploration of how Florida arrived at his conclusions would be very interesting. Regardless, Florida's disciples appear undeterred by the facts. I have been told that Hickenlooper has had Richard Florida into Denver recently to speak (at city expense, I'm sure), but I have not confirmed that yet.
for later pingout.
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