Free Republic

After two years of uncomfortable debate about declaring a ``Gay Pride Day'' in Los Altos, the city council changed its rules this week to ban proclamations about sexual orientation altogether. Mayor Ron Packard said the change spares the city council from ``issuing proclamations on issues I consider divisive and not appropriate for our community.'' The debate has grown bitter since high school students first requested the council declare a citywide Gay Pride Day in 2004. Charges of homophobia are flying -- as well as eggs at a council member's home. Yet this is the same city whose Rotary Club spearheaded...