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Nearly 400 out to support Ithaca's first gay pride march
Ithaca Journal ^
| Originally published Monday, June 16, 2003
| By JESSICA KELTZ
Posted on 06/16/2003 5:05:41 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:01:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ITHACA -- Organizers of what was billed as Ithaca's first gay pride celebration said Saturday's turnout exceeded their expectations.
Micaela Salort-Medina, one of about six local people who coordinated Out in the Finger Lakes, said around 350 to 400 people marched in the parade from Washington Park to The Commons.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cityofevil; gay; homosexual; homosexualagenda; ithaca; medianews; presstitutes; queer
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"When we encounter discrimination of any kind we must remember our duty to confront it," she said. "Let us pledge: Racism and homophobia will not stand in Tompkins County." At this point, I should probably realize we have lost this particular rhetorical war, but it still galls me that we are supposed to equate a completely physical "condition" (one's skin color, etc.) with a lifestyle which, even if somehow genetically predetermined, still involves an individual making concious choices.
"The lives of our young people are in our hands," Storrs said. "What we do as adults and community members will be the legacy they have from us."
Any one else feel a chill?
I think we know what, if the radical gay activists have their way, that legacy will be.
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
To: governsleastgovernsbest; LibKill; gaspar; bentfeather; NativeNewYorker; drjimmy; Atticus; ...
City of Evil. bump
To: Behind Liberal Lines
What do you suppose would be more important to the congregation? To get it on, or to get to God?
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:08:04 AM PDT
by
Thebaddog
(Fetch this!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Home Of The Empire Strikes Back! comes out with a GayFest.
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:08:05 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Just another step towards the first "Pedophilia Pride" parade......I suppose a "Straight and Proud of it" parade would constitute some kind of hate context...
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:10:03 AM PDT
by
trebb
To: trebb
I wonder how they would feel about a poster of a heterosexual couple kissing. ;-) Maybe THAT should be a hate crime.
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:11:34 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Straight
To: Behind Liberal Lines
My heart is warmed and my breakfast reversed it's original path.
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:12:17 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I'm not mad, red is my natural skin color.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Are there any Morally correct individuals living in this City? If so stand up and be counted.
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:12:29 AM PDT
by
chachacha
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I must admit that I am surprised that this is the first time there has been a gay pride parade in Ithaca.
UtR
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Ithaca: New York State's Fruitcake Factory.
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:16:28 AM PDT
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
only 400 at the march? What's wrong?
Even in Ithaca, more people than that go to church on a sunday morning...heck, in Ithaca, more people than that jog every morning...
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:20:18 AM PDT
by
LadyDoc
To: chachacha; *medianews; *Presstitutes; scripter; *Homosexual Agenda; GrandMoM; backhoe; pram; ...
A little additional research also demonstrates how this article is a good example of how the media (in this case, Gannett/the Ithaca Journal) work overtime to convince the reader that this is a perfectly normal lifestyle, made up of people that are no different than you or I.
Here is the picture the Ithaca Journal used to illustrate the gay pride march:
A bunch of happy, smiling, multi-racial, people of varying ages, who look like they could a PTA or Rotary Club.
However, the local Indymedia site also had pictures and, suddenly, things don't look so all-American and wholesome:
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Toooooo bad it didn't rain that day.
To: bentfeather
Toooooo bad it didn't rain that day.Would you really want to see THEM in wet t shirts?
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I remember when the homosexual agenda was simply "leave us alone in our bedroom."
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:43:55 AM PDT
by
Guillermo
(Proud Infidel)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Those photos show why there's no zoo in Ithaca: Socialists avoid competition.
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:48:43 AM PDT
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Would you really want to see THEM in wet t shirts?
Well, the feathers would have been drooping! ;-) Can't fly with wet feathers! LOL
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Homosexuality is deviant sexual behavior and a mental illness.
Homosexuals: 1) subject their body parts to uses nature did not intend, such activities often presenting immediate risk to the participants; 2) are prone to greater suicide, depression and other mental disorders and deficiencies than the heterosexual population at large; 3) are prone to far greater sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, than the (normal) heterosexual population; 4) molest young people (pedophilia) at a far greater rate than heterosexuals; 5) engage in degrading sexual promiscuity, oftentimes engaging in risky sex with many partners during the same event; 6) are engaged in aggressive and widespread efforts to indoctrinate our children by introducing the homosexual lifestyle using public schools as the primary indoctrination vehicle and likewise, through the movie/music/TV industry, with the dual goals of gaining school-age acceptance of homosexuality and encouraging sexual activity among children, especially same-sex experimentation; 7) view most everything through a mindset heavily biased in favor of the homosexual lifestyle and culture, which renders them mostly useless when asked to opine on matters that normal heterosexuals better resolve.
The mental deficiencies described herein applying to homosexuals shall not be confused with the deficiencies associated with the left wing democrat/socialist/Marxist/ feminist/environmentalists, etc., mind, which have their own distinct set of mental disorders.
This doesn't even touch on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality.
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posted on
06/16/2003 5:52:03 AM PDT
by
Imagine
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I see they have dikes in the fingerlakes.
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posted on
06/16/2003 6:00:15 AM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
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