A gay guy I could vote for, David Cicilline, is right - not
your Charlie Bakst - on this issue of sending a Providence Fire truck
- as a good will gesture ? - to the annual Gay Pride Parade.
The thinking that justifies Mayor Cianci's blatant favoritism
is legally at least very muddled. The government shows its respect for
religious freedom by not honoring ANY religion.
Do good American citizens need the cacophony and flamboyance
of a fire truck to remind them of the American ideal of tolerance ?
Is it un-American to tolerate gay people but object
to homosexuality ? And also to these all too frequently OBSCENE public
circuses that do nothing to advance gay dignity ?
A police escort will send the message that the RIGHT of
gays to have their Pride Parade will not go unrecognized. Even the
KKK deserves a police escort - for their own safety.
But there are many forms of exhibitionist behavior that belong
in the closet.
Isn't GAY a poor excuse for a HUMAN identity ? Why
should your sexual proclivities define you in your own mind ?
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