Posted on 06/28/2004 7:11:55 PM PDT by wagglebee
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) - Organizers of a gay pride parade awoke to find the parade route covered in cow manure, but it was cleaned up in time for the event.
Police said the dump-truck load was spread at about 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Authorities are investigating, they said, and criminal mischief and littering charges could be filed.
City workers scooped and rinsed the manure from the route.
The parade attracted about 275 marchers in the town of 26,000 north of Little Rock. It also attracted protesters, many from local churches. Police said there were no injuries or arrests.
"We want to let people know that gay people don't just live in cities," parade organizer John Schenck said. "They live in little towns like Conway and Greenbrier." The street in front of the home of Schenck and his partner, Robert Loyd, also was vandalized with the manure.
Protesters along the route heckled the marchers and held signs such as "Sodomy is a Sin that God forgives If We Repent." Other protesters turned their backs to the marchers and prayed.
"What they're doing is an abomination to God," said John Lauritzon, 31, of Conway.
Last week, about 200 people attended a Conway City Council meeting to support a proposal that called the parade "a potentially divisive and disruptive activity" that the city would "neither encourage nor condone." But no one on the council seconded the motion.
Hope they track down the ass****s that did this ...
Funny, I thought the whole idea of being gay was to dip your *** in the aforementioned substance. You'd think they'd be delighted but I guess there's no pleasing people. ;-)
What do you mean by that?
Nah, once its on the ground, the thrill of dipping the stick in it is gone.
Bulls have been known to escape from their pastures in parts of Arkansas.
Why would they want to tss treats to the paraders? Isn't their motto: "I love the smell of $h|t in the morning...it smells like luv"....?
Sorry, I was being arch. Think about how the material spread upon the thoroughfare was produced in the first place.
I hope they used fresh as dried manure is not smelly.
sounds like a bit of turn-about. They do much the same thing to our culture every day.
I think whole manure-spreading prank isn't responsible; after all, when the news picks it up, do you think they will spin it pro-gay or anti-gay? Clearly the pranksters have done a disservice to any legitimate argument against the homosexual lifestyle.
However, the people who are standing with their signs, the people who chose to turn their back and pray, they represent the sort of civil protest that is a bit more tolerable, without engendering positive fallout for the opposing view.
I remember seeing a show on TV once where some dude in Great Britian or some such locale had a beef with the local tax office, so he got his manure spreader and unloaded a ton of brown all over the tax office. Except he was one block from the proper building and buried some other business in the stink.
Whereas whoever spread the Holy $#!+ was doing the Lord's work, no doubt.
When I first read the headline all I could see was Moses mucking the wind.
Personnally I hope they never find who did this.Or if they do I hope I get picked for the jury.
This is why, even with Wesley Clark's help, KERRY WILL NOT CARRY ARKANSAS.
Yep and the raping Arkansas horndogs sometimes even wander as far as the White House.
Oh! the humanity!!
Oh come on. Why do you think gays are called "fudge packers"?
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