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Related: About this forumMississippi Town Rejects Gay Pride Parade: Cities Without Walls Are Easily Taken
City leaders in Starkville, Mississippi voted 4-3 on Tuesday. Feb. 20 to deny a permit for the citys first LGBTQ Pride parade.
The four members of the Board of Aldermen who voted against the request from Starkville Pride did not comment on their decision, with three of leaving the meeting through a back door, according to The Dispatch.
More than a dozen people spoke in favor of the LGBTQ Pride parade, planned for March, during a citizen comment period, while only two spoke against it:
Longtime Starkville resident Dorothy Isaac spoke against the request.
If anything should be held up and down our streets, it should not be this, Isaac said. God made Adam and Eve. Im not saying what you want to be everybody can be what they want to be. I said he made Adam and Eve.
Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2018/02/mississippi-town-rejects-gay-pride-parade-cities-without-walls-are-easily-taken/
riversedge
(73,027 posts)That argument is an old chestnut that will not die!
Pastor Thomas Rogers, of Josey Creek Missionary Baptist Church, indicated he believes Starkville already adequately accepts the LGBT community but said the parade request sought special privilege.
I think this is a very inclusive, a very friendly place, a very friendly city, a very friendly county, Rogers said. Weve done a lot of things for the university and to attract businesses and influential people. But every city has to have limits. Cities without walls are easily taken.
The permit request had originally appeared on the Board of Aldermens consent agenda, but was pulled for a separate vote at the request of a member. The board also reportedly held an executive session during Tuesdays meeting to discuss possible litigation related to the proposed parade.
Starkville Prides Bailey McDaniel, who was left in tears after the decision, said the group planned to contact the ACLU and other pro-LGBTQ groups about taking legal action, according to the Starkville Daily News. McDaniel said she believes the permit denial was linked to Mississippis House Bill 1523, which allows government entities to refuse service to LGBTQ people based on religious beliefs....................................
Aristus
(68,268 posts)If it's freely and openly extended to other groups, then a parade permit is not a 'special right'.
Welcome to Mississippi, 1918 - oops! I'm sorry: 2018...
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Aristus
(68,268 posts)Mississippi swamp-swimmers refusing to join the modern age.
bearsfootball516
(6,502 posts)SWBTATTReg
(24,023 posts)Amazing, in the country of free speech, people are afraid of a gay parade. What the blank??? Long time D. Issac seems to state the objection to the parade as one of religious belief, again, seems wrong in view of the constitution's right to freedom of religion (they are imposing their religious beliefs on the gay parade participants indirectly). Seems wrong.
There are large areas of the US that don't have any tolerance for anything. Rural areas mostly. It's sad and unfortunate, and paints a very disturbing picture of a lot of tRUMP voters (I'm extrapolating here). Furthermore, they can't come up w/ a truly valid reason as to why they rejected the parade request. Snuck out the back door...Cowards, all of them!
That's fine. Businesses and People won't visit these kinds of areas, won't spend money, and this will continue to negatively impact the economic well being of these areas (which has been happening for some time). People have a long long memory and this town will go down w/ this kind of reputation now.
That's fine, I'll just tell my reps in Congress not to vote for anything for these areas (I'm not going to have my tax dollars spent in areas such as this, economic redevelopment funds, etc.). Cities and/or states that