Discussion for article #230079
Drama! Because a woman’s right to choose is just like a Bravo reality show. Coming to a cable station near you: Abortion Theater
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Ban Evangelical protesters instead…but maybe we should teach this guy a lesson and make sure he can’t sire any more children.
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Using that criteria you could keep out anything, or anyone books,black people,Muslims,gays nudie bars… people named Ashton …I hate that name.
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OK off topic and a little mean but you know how some people just look smart? Like, say, Christopher Hitchens? I’m afraid Rossville Mayor Teddy Harris is just not one of those people. : (
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Takoma Park Maryland is a nuclear free zone. But if the state or the federal government wanted to put a M752 Self-Propelled Launcher on the corner of Eastern Avenue and Carroll Street there’s probably not much they can do about it.
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Notice that huge, EMPTY, industrial facility behind him?
GOPTP’ers will never let the chance to be a butt pirate pass them by.
If it’s not broken, break it!
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Oddly enough, this is called the “Heckler’s Veto” and has repeatedly been beaten to death by the supreme court. Which means we probably shouldn’t let any such case get as far as this one.
Hey, Teddy! Best of luck with prenatal care and other women’s services for those citizens of yours that are also provided by these clinics.
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Guess the Mayor never heard of the “Color Purple” and being gay!
Teletubbies
In February 1999, an unsigned article that media outlets attributed to Falwell was published in the National Liberty Journal – a promotional publication of the university he founded – claimed that the purple Teletubby named Tinky Winky was intended as a gay role model. An article published in 1998 by Salon.com had noted Tinky Winky’s status as a gay icon.[54][55] In response, Steve Rice, spokesperson for Itsy Bitsy Entertainment, which licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, said, “I really find it absurd and kind of offensive.”[47][56] The immensely popular UK show was aimed at pre-school children, but the article stated “he is purple – the gay pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay-pride symbol”. Apart from those characteristics Tinky Winky also carries a magic bag which the NLJ and Salon articles said was a purse. Falwell added that “role modelling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children”.
From Wiki
“We want to be a peaceful city,” Rossville Mayor Teddy Harris said during a council meeting. “We don’t want to have any protesters.”
Exactly. There’s nothing American about protesting.
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He’s building on the town’s previous success in keeping out [2010 numbers]:
–Minorities (88.1% white)
–Heterosexual marriage (less than 38% of households headed by married couple, 12 percentage points below the US average)
–Prosperity (median household income below $25,000/yr, 33.3% of the population below poverty level)
And…
Educated males 18-24 years old (2012 American Community Survey estimates 0% with a Bachelors degree, vs. 7.3% for females, and only 4.8% with some college or an Associates degree, vs. 49.0% for females) <------Edited: incorrect “under 25 years old” replaced with correct “18-24 years old”
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Spot on. From the History page of the City of Rossville’s official web site:
1950s – Peerless Woolen Mills became largest single-unit mill in the world. Company merged with Burlington Industries.
1962 – Burlington closed Peerless after vote to unionize.
Maybe the unions would have more success in the South if they called themselves labor confederations?
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Welp, everyone get on the bus…time to send waves of protesters to this podunk fucktard bigot town of conservative rural ignorants and fundamentalist shitheads. Let’s see where his “no drama” policy platform takes him then.
I was just thinking that their Town Council was voting to ensure they stay a bunch of sheep, when voila! You have the statistics to prove it… not much good for anything but being fleeced.
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Hitchens looked smart if he did because he was a proud atheist unlike many GA goobers
Wait. Think the town council will not ban the pill and IUD next week?
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The usual civility nonsense from a region of the country that’s always congratulating itself on its manners, but is just brutally fascist (I’ve lived there, i don’t need the Yankees can be rednecks speech).
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Don’t give them any ideas! They might model themselves after the former founder of Dominos.
MONAGHAN: “… we will be able to control what goes on there. You won’t be able to buy a Playboy or Hustler magazine in Ave Maria Town. We’re going to control the cable television that comes in the area. There is not going to be any pornographic television in Ave Maria Town. If you go to the drug store and you want to buy the pill or the condoms or contraception, you won’t be able to get that in Ave Maria Town.”
~Wall Street Journal
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