Posted on 01/22/2005 3:01:10 PM PST by Zechariah_8_13
SPOKANE, Wash. — Gay activists in this staid Washington city are planning to create a neighborhood of gay-oriented homes, businesses and nightlife — a development religious conservatives contend would clash with Spokane's family-centered culture. "A gay mecca is not what we'd like to see Spokane marketed as," said Penny Lancaster, director of Community Impact Spokane (search), a network of evangelical Christians. "I'd rather see us promoted as a conservative, family-oriented community without any reference to sexual orientation."
But proponents of the plan say a gay district would signal that Spokane is tolerant and progressive. "There is a very large gay population here," said Bonnie Aspen, a business owner who arrived with her partner two years ago to escape the congestion of the San Francisco Bay (search) area. Spokane — which in trendy Seattle is shorthand for tragically unhip — has long been dominated by conservative politics that stem from its history as a mining and farming center. But it also has a large core of Democrats and libertarians who share the West's live-and-let-live philosophy. Most of all, the city identifies itself as a good place to raise a family — and opponents contend that's at odds with the image of a gay district.
The idea for the district has roots in the theories of Richard Florida, an economist whose 2002 book "The Rise of the Creative Class" contends the economy of the future will be created by the 38 million workers who toil in creative industries. Florida, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, said members of the creative class consider recreation, culture and ethnic diversity, including a large population of gays, as central to where they live. Places like New York, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle have those qualities. Places like Spokane generally do not. Even though they face little discrimination...
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The article notes "...(Spokane) also has a large core of Democrats and libertarians who share the West's live-and-let-live philosophy" seeks to imply that those opposed are "meddling" in the affairs of homosexuals. However, it's the homosexual minority who are meddling in the affairs of the heterosexual majority.
The issue is that the homosexuals do NOT want to simply "Live and let live." They already have that, and that is not enough.
Instead, they want to indoctrinate new converts to homosexuality, as evidenced by the last sentence of the article:
"It would help youth struggling with their sexuality to realize they don't have to go away to a big city to be gay. You can be gay right here in Spokane," he said.
How about a GAY Island in Indonesia!
Canada?
Gawd--they already have Provincetown Massachusetts, essentially all of NYC below 14th St. and all of San Francisco.
Why is the Pacific Northwest a magnet for separatist movements? Isn't Spokane home to a lot of skinheads too? Skinheads vs. gay men must be entertaining.
ANyone else get the irony in this statement?
You're right about anything below 14st hehehe.
That idea is a washout...
If they can start an exclusive community, can we?
Cy! You little snowbound thing you...hope you got all your food shopping done.
I don't guess they would mind a hetrosexual only neighborhood too, then.
getting worse than SF up there isn't it????????
I ran around doing my errands. I was going to the big motorcycle expo today but no way, not with this snow. It started snowing exactly when they said! LOL
A wash out?? Hey! they can start with a clean beach!! The Sodomy Islands, where everyone has a Shi++y outlook on life!
Could be heading in that direction but SF is in a class by itself.
I may have to think about this one. It might not be so bad if these militant gays had their own neighborhood, stores, etc. since it would keep them out of ours!
People keep saying only one or two percent of the population is gay, but they sure seem to get around. Even given their disproportionate influence and tons of good publicity, the numbers seem higher than that.
Yeah...you're right. And the directions to the village would be simple: Just follow the old dirt road...
That would do wonders for the business community.
I venture to say that most straights and family types folks would avoid the place if that were to become a reality.
The following is an interesting article; somehow it just seemed to fit with your post.
Semantic Infiltration and How to Combat It
Chuck Venhuizen - January 2005
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/semantic-infiltration-venhuizen.htm
Semantic infiltration (SI) is a phenomenon of language that occurs when certain people deliberately replace one word or phrase deemed offensive with another term that better frames and strengthens their point of view.
4. "gay" / "lesbian" / "bi-sexual" / "transgendered": these words have facilitated the unfounded notion that homosexuals are a distinct class deserving special rights and protections = "participant in homosexual acts"
I think the people on Wall St. will be surprised to learn they are all gay.
Fort Fabulous?.... sure just "go down" 2 blocks, past the Jiffy Lube, and take a left on the "Hershey Highway".
Agreed... why do you think those industries die out? I live in New York and here on Long Island there are pockets of skinheads, most economically driven since Grumman all but closed down.
Are they going to rename the neighborhood Sodom?
I'm sure someone has dibs on 69 Hershey Alley for their address.
Don't count on it. All its intended to do is keep you out of their neighborhood. They will still demand free access to yours as often and as long as they wish.
It would be *very* interesting to see the crime statistics a neighborhood like this would generate ... domestic violence, drugs and such.
No, that would be censorship and discrimination. They have the right to do anything they want, no matter how blatant, but if it affects your decisions in any way you're a bigot.
There's room in Antarctica.
No, " 'S Pokin " ;-)
Is this not illegal under the federal fair housing laws? You are not able to say this is a "black" or "white" or "itallian" or "jewish" or "X" neighborhood.
Now if it is a mere behavior and not a status then perhaps they would be allowed, HOWEVER if there is ANY area law against discrimination against sexual orientation then this project is totally illegal as a matter of law.
The exact language of the federal fair housing laws is under federal laws at http://www.findlaw.com.
Not that there's anything wrong with being gay....
In NYC they only dominate a small neighborhood in Chelsea and a small part of the West Village (which is quickly becoming too expensive for most of them). Even in the rest of Greenwich Village they are not the dominant culture.
I have a collegue who was specifically told a piece of real estate would not be sold to him and his wife because he was not a homosexual. (they wanted to sell to someone compatable with their lifestyle) Very illegal, however prove it.
The feds used to send out testers. Will the feds send out fake homos to test sellers and real estate agents?
The conservatives have to use the laws on the books against the homosexuals. Spokane probably has orientation laws. That makes this whole project illegal.
Gay activists in this staid Washington city are planning to create a neighborhood of gay-oriented homes, businesses and nightlife are these the same people who have been carrying signs, and parading in g-strings claiming the right to inclusion? Now what, they want to be segregated? Indeed these super-gays do not speak for the entire gay population. And they are doing immeasurable harm to the majority of gays who want to blend into society just as most heterosexuals do.
Since when is what you do in the bedroom determine what community you live in? Of course the inevitable has happened. They have not only come out of the closet in the bedroom, but they have gone into the streets. Now the streets are not big enough and they want an entire community of gays so that they can do whatever it is that they feel they have to do in public. But then this would not be the fist such community of homosexuals, Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind.
Should there be any social differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals when it comes to dining in public? What is the point of all this? If you take the time to read “The Death of Right and Wrong” by Tammy Bruce you will find a convincing theory. In part, she believes that the super-gays are suffering from a malignant narcissism. Instead of seeking to normalize their behavior, they cannot bear to confront the fact that they are not normal. Laura Schlessinger was kicked off the air for saying that. What she meant to say is that only 10% of the population is gay, and by any definition of normal, they are not. When 90% of the population engages in heterosexual behavior, it becomes the norm. In any other abnormality, doctors and psychologists would treat it, but the super-gays have convinced the ignorant masses that are easily persuaded by people in the media like Katie Coric, who champion the gay liberation movement. When the media elites agree with a position they call the proponents “activists”, when they don’t they call them “radicals.” If wanting to create an entire community that consists of only gays is not radical then nothing is.
The press would have us believe that only evangelical Christians do not want to see a an entire neighborhood consist exclusively of gays, but it’s simply a way to try and show how unreasonable Christians can be. Is it reasonably to exclude everyone from the community because they are heterosexual? Of course the media will never suggest that, since they obviously believe that a gay neighborhood is a good thing, and long overdue. The fact is that many people are becoming sick of the networks and major newspapers telling them what they should believe. FOX news is practically the only fare and balanced programming on television. Which explains its mass appeal.
Democrats do not share a “live and let live” philosophy. Just examine what they are now doing to Bill Cosby. Since he has been speaking out against democratic black “leaders” which should read “misleaders”, they have dug up some woman who says she was drugged, unconscious, and while she was out, Mr. Cosby fondled her. Give me a break, as John Stossel would say. When he as a compliant Blackman, he was the funniest man on earth, now that he has “seen the light”, he is a pariah. It’s too obvious to even discuss.
The speed limit on Lesbian Lane is Lickity Split.
i aGRREE wITH yOU 180 pERCENT!
Sounds like apartheid to me.
What would these folks say if someone proposed to have a "married and chaste singles" zone in the city, where LGBTs or singles living together in sin would not be permitted? How would that be different from what they are proposing?
We live in a country where you can have women's colleges but not men's colleges, women's clubs but not men's clubs, gay schools but not straight schools. There is something basically unjust and discriminative about such rules. They cannot meet the tests of justice, rationality, or constitutionality in the long run.
What a great IDEA. Put them all together in a GAYTTO
A new motto for the city if they adopt this "gay" agenda would be: "The Sodom of the Inland Empire", or "HIV central of the Inland Empire".
That's because MONEY talks, and Hollyweird gives a ton of it to the Sodomite cause.
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