Posted on 05/05/2007 6:17:19 PM PDT by wagglebee
A pro-family leader in Pennsylvania says families should stay away from Philadelphia until city officials there stop catering to homosexuals. Philadelphia Mayor John Street recently took part in the unveiling of 36 permanent rainbow street signs in an area near the historic district known for its large homosexual population.
According to Gramley, the city was prompted by the Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus to approve the street signs. "What the city of Philadelphia is doing is looking for the homosexual [tourism] dollars," she says. "They need to know that if they are going to be accommodating homosexuals, then they're going to lose the traditional family dollars."
The city of Philadelphia is not family friendly, says Gramley -- and families should not choose Philadelphia as a vacation spot, she adds. The AFA of Pennsylvania leader believes a loss in tourism dollars is the only way the city is going to get the message.
"Let's face it," she says; "the majority of people in America hold traditional values, or they at least believe that homosexual acts are not right -- and we need to just send that message to Philadelphia."
Gramley says the country's Founding Fathers would be appalled that Philadelphia is now being touted as a "mecca" for homosexual tourists.
Ah, no surprise. I guess they felt it wasn’t good enough to pollute our city with their rainbow banners for only 1 month per year. Now they have “permanent” signs. Let’s see how long they remain permanent...
Many, many people are doing very, very well. They just don’t happen to be the middleclass.
That has to be it. I can't imagine that there's enough ass pirates out there in numbers to be worth targeting, but the few that are out there must have lots of money to spend.
That pales in comparison to the housing, schools, shopping centers, etc that are popping up on the outskirts of Philly. I recently got lost on a country road I’ve travelled many times. There was an entire town where there should have been farms.
Can anyone tell me, when is the last time Philthadelphia elected a mayor with character and a moral compass?
Being from Pennsylvania and only about a hour away, I find it funny that the author thinks that Philadephia is a possible vacation spot for families. I have been to Philadelphia about five times in my life. I don’t think the author has to worry about it being a vacation spot.
“New Orleans formally embraced homosexuality for tourism dollars and look where that went.”
What do you mean by this? The hurricane took out New Orleans. Do you believe that this was because of the gays? That does not make sense because if a hurricane was going to take out a city because of gays wouldn’t it be San Francisco? I guess I am not understanding you very strange post.
I’m going to assume you didn’t know that New Orleans was known as the homosexual Mecca of the deep South. There were various homosexual festivities throughout the year, the biggest being the annual Southern Decadence festival, when homosexuals descend on the French Quarter to perform perverse acts in the streets. It’s interesting you brought up the hurricane, because that struck right before the S.D. festival.
Once the middle class is an empty husk financially, the sh*t will hit the fan, because all of those who depend on us to shut up and pay our taxes won't have the tax-dollar ATM anymore.
What a shame the homosexuals shanghaied a lovely symbol and a pretty word: rainbow and gay.
You guys slamming philly don’t get it. Philly is an incredible place to be right now. Housing has skyrocketed there, and continues to climb even as the rest of the country’s housing market has evened off.
For all of you who said only chestnut hill and manayunk are nice, what’s it like to get out of the burbs maybe once a decade? You obviously heard or saw something about Philly being run down about 20 years ago, and haven’t had access to any real-time information since.
It’s ponderous that you would even try to speak up about this!
Renovations in Philly are everywhere! Northern Liberties is a very happening place, and the beautification is spreading northward from there. University City in West Philly is gorgeous! The old mansions that fell into disrepair are being rehabbed and bought for millions. And it is all growing...
Evidence of possibility and life and renewal are all around the city!!
For those of you who still don’t get it... you can all get together at Sizzler or Outback or Bennigans, wherever you cultural wasteland types waddle off to on Friday nights, and reinforce each others’ beliefs in outdated complaints about a city that is actually a great place to be right now.
“For those of you who still dont get it... you can all get together at Sizzler or Outback or Bennigans, wherever you cultural wasteland types waddle off to on Friday nights, and reinforce each others beliefs in outdated complaints about a city that is actually a great place to be right now.”
QFT
What’s this talk about Philly being “our” city? Your page says you live in Jersey.
I didn't see any Philly slammin' in my post.
And now you won’t even think to!
Actually, I just forgot to take out your name and put “all”. All the Philly bashing got me a bit crazy. :)
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