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SWBTATTReg

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6. Anti-gay biogotry is alive and well in quite a few portions of the US...
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:17 AM
Feb 2018

Amazing, in the country of free speech, people are afraid of a gay parade. What the blank??? Long time D. Issac seems to state the objection to the parade as one of religious belief, again, seems wrong in view of the constitution's right to freedom of religion (they are imposing their religious beliefs on the gay parade participants indirectly). Seems wrong.

There are large areas of the US that don't have any tolerance for anything. Rural areas mostly. It's sad and unfortunate, and paints a very disturbing picture of a lot of tRUMP voters (I'm extrapolating here). Furthermore, they can't come up w/ a truly valid reason as to why they rejected the parade request. Snuck out the back door...Cowards, all of them!

That's fine. Businesses and People won't visit these kinds of areas, won't spend money, and this will continue to negatively impact the economic well being of these areas (which has been happening for some time). People have a long long memory and this town will go down w/ this kind of reputation now.

That's fine, I'll just tell my reps in Congress not to vote for anything for these areas (I'm not going to have my tax dollars spent in areas such as this, economic redevelopment funds, etc.). Cities and/or states that

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