Posted on 12/29/2013 3:23:28 AM PST by markomalley
A San Diego woman Thursday called for a boycott of the Rose Parade because two Los Angeles men will be married atop a float themed “Love is the Best Protection.” The cake-shaped float is sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and is the group’s third entry in the New Year’s parade.
Karen Grube, of San Diego, said the Tournament of Roses should remove the AHF float from the parade. She has also called on corporate sponsors to remove their support of the parade if the wedding goes on as planned. And, she has set up a Facebook page seeking support for her cause.
“Gay marriage is illegal in over 30 states, why would they promote something that is blatantly illegal?” Grube said. “That’s just stupid.”
The 2014 Rose Parade is the first where gay marriage has been legal in California, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that deemed Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
Grube also said she didn’t think the Tournament should be involved in a group’s “political agenda.”
“It used to be a family thing, to get up on New Year’s Day morning and watch the parade,” she said. “It no longer is.”
Danny Leclair said the negative reaction over the planned wedding to his long-time partner Aubrey Loots has not diminished his enthusiasm for his special day.
“It’s something that they don’t understand and so I expected it,” he said. “We’re not dissuaded or upset or concerned. We’re simply acknowledging it.”
While Leclair describes some of the negative comments he has read as “heinous,” others he says, are “people taking a stand for something they believe in.”
“There’s a lot of people who think we’re doing this as a political statement,” he said. “It couldn’t be further from the truth. Our stance is love is love and love will save lives.”
Leclair said he hopes his wedding, which will be broadcast around the world to an estimated 68 million people, will show people that gay marriage isn’t something to fear.
Ralph E. Shaffer, a professor emeritus of history at Cal Poly Pomona, had a different opinion.
He said the wedding is an “in your face” act that might only harden people’s views towards gays.
“The problem is going to be the wedding kiss,” Shaffer said, adding that the couple will likely kiss several times during the parade as would be expected for a couple on their wedding day. “I don’t know what the response is going to be,” he said.
AHF President Michael Weinstein said the boycotters should respect, “the law of the land” and denied the non-profit organization was making a political statement.
“There are as many opinions in the world as there are people, but our motivation is to validate the love that exists between same-sex couples and what we believe is the importance of validating these relationships in terms of protecting, particularly gay men from HIV and other STDs,” he said. “We think the more we promote stable, long-term relationships, the better it will be.”
In a prepared statement, TofR officials said they welcomed the entry — and the wedding.
“Like all of our sponsors and float designers, AHF continues to help make the Rose Parade a premier event through original and creative expressions that connect to parade themes — as this float does,” the statement read.
Grube said her call for a parade boycott has nothing to with religious convictions.
She said she does not agree with having any marriage — gay or straight — celebrated during the parade.
In recent days several area residents have expressed similar sentiments. Michael E. Thornton, a retired disabled veteran, said he will not be watching due to religious beliefs.
“Celebrating this ungodly activity is repugnant to me spiritually and I will not support this practice financially by viewing the parade,” he wrote in an email to this newspaper.
>> will show people that gay marriage isn’t something to fear.
Fear? Like iron-fisted enforcement that demands servicing homosexuality?
Fear? FU, scumbag.
For the record, I will not be watching the parade and will not as long as this sort of behavior is supported. I will not watch the Macy’s parade or other parades with inappropriate sexual behavior.
Irony of having 2 deviants with the highest incedents of HIV being sponsored by an AID healthcare group. What a bunch of deviant morons trying to force their filth on what should be a family occasion, disgusting.
Two Points:
1. Has there ever been a regular wedding on a float during the Rose Parade? If not, then why this way and why now?
2. They said: “It couldn’t be further from the truth. Our stance is love is love and love will save lives.” “Love is Love” is an untruth. Do polyamorists “love” or are they redefining love to cover what they do? Gays are dangerously promiscuous even in the so-called “married” or “unioned” state. Why dangerous? Terrible diseases are caused by gay anal sex and their other practices.
I emailed the parade organizers and told them how I have always loved the parade but won’t be watching this year.
45 Communist Goals
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals [1963]:
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
The “AIDS Healthcare Foundation” is an oxymorononic label. Gays have done more to spread AIDS than can ever be put back into a bottle. Now, they are on a pedophilia campaign so that they can say that a cure is “for the children” while they continue to molest and rape kids.
We can’t do much about this year’s parade, but should start working on the sponsorships for next year’s.
Americans Against Public Perversion has a nice ring to it.
But that's besides the point. That a parade would feature deviant and disgusting behavior as shown in the image below does not surprise me. The very definition of parade (verb) is to march in an ostentatious or attention-seeking way. So of course participants are going to want to degrade and defile themselves in front of others. Why would parents bring their children to such an ugly spectacle?
When in the presense of a parade with children in tow Pelt with rocks and bottles repeat if necessary
Check out the two little kids along the rail seeing this sick b*stard ride by in a "gay pride" parade in Cal.
...in the last pair of photos (the one with the sick you-know-what riding a bicycle naked in a parade) there is what looks like a lesbian couple, with a small child on one of their shoulders. Perhaps they are the ‘parents’ of the 2 little kids on the rail?
> Grube also said she didn’t think the Tournament should be involved in a group’s “political agenda.”
Neither should movies, TV shows, soap operas, or talk shows IMO but it seems there’s been a real heavy push to get everyone to accept sodomy and pedophelia as normal since 0 took office. Noticeably more so then before. The schools are in on it too. Declines in different civilizations throughout history seem to be tied to a heightened level of Immorality and we seem to be going down that same road.
The problem isn’t the wedding kiss it’s the wedding bungholing that night.
These two sick perverts want their 15 so badly they can taste it—and a lot of other things not so tasty.
I think I will pass on the Rose Bowl this year.
I agree. I doubt that most homosexual men want to marry. Promiscuity IS their deviant “lifestyle”.
This year’s Thanksgiving Day drag queen parade was about as disgusting as it gets. I turned the channel wondering WTH were they thinking...i don’t care how much they shove that crap in our faces it will never be accepted as normal. It just makes me more disgusted at their sponsors. Didn’t they learn anything from the JC Penney, Chick-Fil-A, and now the Duck Dynasty epidodes? I say boycott any sponsors that side with pushing that filth because it says a lot about the company’s principals’s personal opinions and values.
“Love” has nothing to do with sexual obsession
I hope the parents are proud of themselves for taking little Johnny and Jessica to a gay parade to teach them that riding around on a bicycle completely nude is just “free expression” and has nothing to do with pedophelia or seducing their children into the lifestyle.../s
Disgusting. Truly disgusting.
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