I was in middle school in 1963. I had a friend who was openly gay. A very dangerous thing back then. But he was smart, well-read, great sense of humor. And he never hit on me. I liked him a lot. He was one of my best friends.When the ’80s came along, and with that decade the militant gays and lesbians demanding attention and change, my opinion started to change, and I do not like being told what to do. You can’t pass a law making thoughts and opinion against the law. So I will feel and think what I want. Fuck the SJWs—you have ruined everything.Those bikers who defaced the rainbow crosswalk in my opinion did a great favor to the city. They brought attention to the fact that $30,000 was spent on such a stupid project. I thought politicians were supposed to represent all of us citizens.And by the way, why wasn’t getting rid of Columbus Day put to a vote? Because special interest rules now in this world gone mad!
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We all want to believe in something, don’t we? [“I Want to Believe,” v28 i23]What I can’t understand is what reporter August March (apparently) wants to believe. He says, “Fundamentalists continue to preach fire and brimstone for LGBTQ humans …”In the past 30 years, I have heard well over 500 sermons in a wide variety of fundamentalist churches. In all those years and in all those sermons, I have heard exactly three references to LGBTQ humans. One of those was an incidental and insignificant reference to them and one was a brief list of statistics about the spread of AIDS. The third was a sympathetic request from the church pastor asking for prayer for a man—who attended the service—who was dying of AIDS.Where did March get his “fire and brimstone” hyperbole? Based on my experience, it certainly doesn’t seem to be happening in Albuquerque.
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