Posted on 12/15/2022 12:07:30 AM PST by Morgana
A city in Central Texas held separate Christmas parades this year after an LGBT group featured a man dressed in drag at last year's parade unbeknownst to the Christian group that once organized the annual festive event.
The city of Taylor, a “progressive, growing city” of roughly 15,000 residents about 30 miles northeast of Austin, decided to host its own separate parade last week following controversy over a decision by the Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance (TAMA) to ban the LGBT group Taylor Pride from its Christmas Parade of Lights following last year's display that offended some families.
Last month, TAMA — an organization of churches that holds to "traditional biblical and family values" — issued a statement saying it would no longer allow Taylor Pride to participate after the group “made it into the parade due to an unfortunate oversight” last year.
According to TAMA, Taylor Pride seeks to promote the LGBT lifestyle as “biblically accepted” and included two men “inappropriately” dressed as women in last year’s parade.
Taylor Pride “should never have been allowed to participate and put their promotion on display to families who had no warning about what was coming,” the statement added.
While acknowledging that TAMA has never held any “Christian or religious theme requirements” for parade participants — a policy which it said “remains completely unchanged” — the group said it took additional steps this year to “ensure that no participant under [TAMA] explicitly contradicts, with their entry, what our entire organization is built on, the Word of God.”
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Texas turning blue?
It would be interesting to have both parades at the same time, but alone different routes. Then people can vote with their feet.
Quick, take a poll, capture the metric!
Slice and dice the stats, develop spin, place press release in the WH press secretarys binder, don’t tell her so she has to frantically rifle through the binder to give the approved answer... ìn 5,4,3,1
Attendance figures would be interesting.
“Texas turning blue?”
Nope, but the logical result of legalizing their behavior.
Will the city also have two parades on Pride weekend?
One for those who are proud.
And another for those whose sacred writings designate pride of any kind as a sin?
Likely invaders from nearby Austin
And take data for a scientific study:
Which parade will attract the most ‘accidental’ SUVs?
Also, watch out for some nefarious hacker who changes the routes to intersect.
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