I’d heard about this from reading blogs but just watched this report in full. It’s so sad that people still use the word “sissy” and trot out that old line, it’s Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. The fact that the woman called the Emergency Services hotline because two guys were kissing shows remarkable ignorance and bigotry but I guess on a positive note it shows that Baltimore was having a quiet crime day. Perhaps the most disturbing part for me was the guy who said he believes in carrying a gun and that people should be “put down”.
This pisses me off something fierce! It is ok for a straight couple to have some pda action going on, but when I do it with my guy I get ridiculed? I need to get away from the Midwest before I go nuts!
Brenton,
Thanks for posting this. I copied the video link and wrote about it on my blog. I think that guys who live in communities like where I live in Boston, USA can easily forget how lucky we are. Certainly there are bigots everywhere (the video is just one example of this), but there are definitely parts / areas of the US that are more open minded. Fortunately, this is not just limited to traditionally ‘gay’ neighborhoods like The Village and Chelsea in NYC, West Hollywood in LA or The Castro in SF.
Thanks for sharing - it gave me something to think about and write on my blog this evening.
Cheers,
Rob
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“It’s not what we say, it’s what God says.”
What a load of crap. Those people are so full of it, using a fictional character to justify their own B.S.
What I wonder is what if the couples that they used were not so “pretty.” Let’s face it, the guys were very cute. What if they were overweight, middle aged guys like my partner and I? Would the “cool with it” people still be cool with it?
Alright, I grew up near Birmingham and I guess because the treatment of how African-Americans or Blacks depending on your local culture, even this is argued still within the race; changed so drastically in my home area in the South, south of Atlanta I noticed no harm done to my homosexual friends; this completly past me up as just normal everyday behavior. Being raised in a baptist preacher’s home with many gay friends because I modeled as a child; I just accepted everyone even though I myself I’m not gay, I was ridiculed for being so then later accepted as it became “popular” to be gay even among the straight communties in Atlanta during the late 90’s and early 00’s.
I find this to be not only disturbing but frightening. Most of my friends are a part of the gay community suffering many of the same problems growing up together in the 70’s and 80’s in Atlanta; which has recently become the US’s San Fran of the East. I believe I can say this living with 2 gay couple’s and my wife on both coast and experiencing more “homo” or racial tension expressed toward our livihood in metro LA than Atlanta in recent years; this saddens me deeply to hear a town so closely related to Atlanta having such bigotry. This vastly proves the minor improvements America has made in overcoming it’s fears of homosexuality. I can only hope that the very God that granted us all choice, can make a quick improvment on the choices we as Americans make for acceptance of all people.
It’s actually Birmingham, not Baltimore as you mentioned Brenton. Two very different cities. Birmingham, Alabama is very southern - VERY Bible Belt, so their attitude is a lot different. And I still have YET to understand why there is such a complete double standard when it comes to two women kissing, as opposed to two men kissing.
And whenever I hear someone say, “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” I always reply, “No She didn’t!! We EVOLVED!! Or at least, SOME of us have!”