Posted on 07/14/2006 4:34:04 AM PDT by misterrob
PROVINCETOWN -- Town leaders here are holding a public meeting today to air concerns about slurs and bigoted behavior. And this time, they say, it's gay people who are displaying intolerance.
Police say they logged numerous complaints of straight people being called ``breeders" by gays over the July Fourth holiday weekend. Jamaican workers reported being the target of racial slurs. And a woman was verbally accosted after signing a petition that opposed same-sex marriage, they said.
The town, which prizes its reputation for openness and tolerance, is taking the concerns seriously, though police say they do not consider the incidents hate crimes.
``Hate language is usually the early-warning signal that could lead to hate-motivated violence," Town Manager Keith Bergman said. ``And before that happens, we try to nip it in the bud."
Gays have coexisted fairly peacefully alongside other residents in this community on Cape Cod's tip, home to a long-established Portuguese fishing colony.
Provincetown was recently re-certified for its ``No Place for Hate" designation by the AntiDefamation League, which worked with the town on tolerance issues in the 1990s after gays experienced some problems. But the town's ``No Place for Hate" group, set up to address incidents of bigotry, hasn't met in years.
``We have not had problems in a long time," police Staff Sergeant Warren Tobias said. ``I don't necessarily view this as a big problem, but it's certainly a blip on our radar screen."
Along the main shopping street and the wharf, residents of this 3,400-person town -- which swells to some 30,000 over the summer -- say tensions are rising in part because of strong feelings about same-sex marriage.
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If the liberals are shocked that the LGBT people they work so hard to protect from "prejudice" are being just as insensitive as the "evil straights," just wait until all the serial killers that they put away for 6 months with weekend furloughs start preying upon them. A message to all you liberals: you reap what you sow.
So I'm a breeder, huh...?
Actually, I've always kind of thought of myself as a transgendered, black lesbian...(which makes me a straight, white male).
I was recently accused of bigotry, "gay bashing", and a racial slur was used after I expressed a firm (but polite) objection to the idea of teaching children to accept "same-sex" marriage.
Ah... the loving and tolerant behavior of liberals.
I also had a friend in high school whose mother was gay, and that mother used racial and ethnic slurs to describe people all the time.
Children yes. But I'd allow large dogs outdoors more often in order to bark loudly. Can dogs be guilty of "hate barking?"
I didn't realize that P-town was that small. That's encouraging.
Ahhh, the royalty was out that day I see.
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