Posted on 04/18/2003 3:34:01 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Organizers of an AIDS memorial are asking the city Human Relations Commission to mediate a meeting of the group and some Lincoln Heights residents who allegedly shouted anti-gay sentiments at a recent meeting and have passed out fliers saying that the park memorial is not the way children should learn about the disease.
The mostly publicly funded project, which would cost about $500,000, was approved last month by the Recreation and Parks Commission. The City Council is tentatively scheduled to take up the issue Wednesday.
The $344,000 appropriation from the state general fund requires that it be constructed and that the funds be spent by June 30 or the money could be lost. If the council approves the project, Zaldivar said, construction will begin in May.
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1. If we are going to have an AIDS memorial in a park, why don't we fill up parks with memorials to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, to name a few -- it would really make parts cheerful places to go. (sarcasm)
2. Let's glorify AIDS to the kids, great way to fight it.(more sarcasm).
3. We do have such a huge surplus in California that we don't know what to do with our money, so let's build AIDS memorials, I can see how that definitely should be the highest priority, forget spending on police, firemen, education, let's do what is really important: build AIDS memorials in parks! ( more extreme sarcasm)
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This is really insane, even by California standards.
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