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LGBT Group Challenges Denial To March In Parade [Anoka, MN]
WCCO/CBS ^ | October 10, 2012 11:54 AM | unattributed

Posted on 10/10/2012 11:28:49 AM PDT by Hunton Peck

ANOKA, Minn. (WCCO) – As Anoka gears up for its annual Halloween parade, an online petition is attracting a lot of attention.

It’s supporting a gay youth group that’s not being allowed to march in this year’s parade.

The group is called Justin’s Gift, named after Justin Aaberg.

He was a student at Anoka High School who committed suicide.

His family says he couldn’t take the bullying he endured, over his sexual orientation.

The co-founders of Justin’s Gift felt like being a part of the parade would be a great opportunity for the community to show its support for gay and lesbian students.

Especially after all of the heat the Anoka School District took after several students including Justin, committed suicide.

Now some believe the group was not allowed to be in the parade because of what it stands for.

Justin’s Gift submitted an application to walk in the parade several days before the deadline.

Co-founder Tammy Aaberg, Justin’s mother, says the students planned to dress up as fairy tale characters and march with the group’s banner.

They received a letter stating there wasn’t room for them, the committee reached its limit on the number of parade walkers.

An upset parent not connected to the group started an online petition asking the committee to reconsider. More than a thousand people have signed it.

Tammy says she’s deeply hurt by the decision and the students are disappointed.

“It almost feels like they don’t care what happened to him,” she said. “They should have learned from it and learned from the kids who are here.”

We contacted Anoka’s Chamber of Commerce and they said the parade committee is only accessible by email. We sent an email and haven’t heard back yet.

It says on its website, for walking groups, there is limited space and it also states the committee reserves the right to deny any application.

Justin’s Gift is planning an alternative celebration the week before the parade for its members.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: anokaminnesota; homosexualagenda; pervertpride
Homosexualists continue their tradition of using the dead and dying children they've infected or recruited to advance their agenda.
1 posted on 10/10/2012 11:28:57 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck
annual Halloween parade

What kind of culture has an annual Halloween parade?

2 posted on 10/10/2012 11:35:53 AM PDT by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Hunton Peck

“The group is called Justin’s Gift, named after Justin Aaberg.

He was a student at Anoka High School who committed suicide.”

WTH? We’re memorializing suicides now?

I can understand the grieving parents who want to blame someone else for their child’s death, but at some point the rest of us need to say “No, we are not setting up a memorial to someone who took the easy way out, because we do not want to encourage that behavior.”


3 posted on 10/10/2012 11:55:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: donna
What kind of culture has an annual Halloween parade?
And the answer is ...

4 posted on 10/10/2012 11:57:33 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Hunton Peck
Commemorate the death of an indoctrinated sex deviate, who couldn't STAND being told what he was? And then, marching in a parade to proclaim your devience to the world, who doesn't want to SEE it?

Only in America.

5 posted on 10/10/2012 11:58:10 AM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Hunton Peck

I wonder if the “Heterosexual Pride” group will be marching.


6 posted on 10/10/2012 12:02:35 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Hunton Peck

they are calling this an “opportunity”.

opportunity for what?

to endose homosexuals as normal?

The homosexuals are ASSUMING everone agrees. EVEN IF nobody agrees they are acting as if everyou MUST AGREE with them.

no child is born as a homosexual. The parents should have investigated as the issue of abuse (as that has been show to be a common issue via prison studies).

problem solved via the homosexuals having a seperate sex directed event.


7 posted on 10/10/2012 12:15:43 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: donna

A fun one.


8 posted on 10/10/2012 12:17:19 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Hunton Peck

How ironic is it that these homos want to dress up as fairies?


9 posted on 10/10/2012 12:20:22 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Hunton Peck

Why can’t they just march with everyone else instead of placing themselves in a seprate box...

It is almost as if the democraps have fooled people into becomming “self segragating” via their whole “social just-us” meme....


10 posted on 10/10/2012 12:23:01 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Hunton Peck

What if a student group wanted to march, advertising their heterosexual promiscuity? “Jailbait Sluts,” for example. They could have pictures of a girl who committed suicide after being diagnosed with an incuable STD, or after a couple of abortions.


11 posted on 10/10/2012 12:24:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Una bruja.)
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To: GraceG

Uh, what exactly was Justin’s ‘gift’?


12 posted on 10/10/2012 12:26:58 PM PDT by delcopatriot
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To: traditional1

homosexuals are using parental grief as a recruiting tool.

serously, “dressed as fairy tail characters”? is that some kind of recruiting tool/method?

The bottom line is that this group is about recreational sex. recreational ADULT sex groups have no place around children in any shape or form.


13 posted on 10/10/2012 12:27:43 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Hunton Peck
Why do heterophobic homosexuals feel compelled to sexualize everything the come into contact with.

If heterophobic homosexuals want to participate in Hallowe'en, no one is stopping them.

They always want to turn everything into some kind of festival of perverts, and then they get offended when non-perverts object.

14 posted on 10/10/2012 12:40:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (That was sarcasm, you moron.)
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To: Hunton Peck

perhaps the community has decided not to front out others of this same ilk lest they too become the victims of bullying and suicide.....perhaps!


15 posted on 10/10/2012 1:19:24 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: Hunton Peck

“The co-founders of Justin’s Gift felt like being a part of the parade would be a great opportunity for the community to show its support for gay and lesbian students.”

Sure. I’d love to show my ZERO support.


16 posted on 10/10/2012 1:28:31 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR: Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: Lancey Howard

“How ironic is it that these homos want to dress up as fairies?”

Next thing you know, Pelosi will want to dress as a witch...


17 posted on 10/10/2012 1:30:36 PM PDT by Hunton Peck ("Blasphemy" is to Islam as "swiftboating" is to Democrats: The speaking of truth to liars.)
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To: Hunton Peck

Does it occur to these deviates that the reason the community may not be in a hurry to show its support for gay and lesbian students is that the community DOESN’T support gay and lesbian students?


18 posted on 10/10/2012 1:55:07 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Hunton Peck

What does anyone want to bet that this is being pushed and funded by one of the big homo Gestapo organizations? They are ALWAYS behind these campaigns to push perversion.


19 posted on 10/10/2012 3:09:04 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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