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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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In Charlotte,North Carolina, Time Out Youth wanted to rent 5 billboards for $6,200 in grant and gift $$$$ that would have the slogan "It's OK to be gay". Here's why they can't:
*The slogan is too direct.
*Consumers don't have the choice of turning a page or flipping a channel.
*A lot of parents genuinely feel children and teens should not be around anything affirming to be gay, so (kids) won't choose to be that way.
When will they ever learn that we don't choose it, it chooses us. I didn't choose to live inside my head all my teenage years waiting for what will probably be a struggle to be proud of myself. I didn't choose to be different. I didn't choose to live a lie. I sure didn't choose to watch how everyone around me treats anyone "different" and know that they'd do the same to me.
I don't know if these billboards are flaunting stuff in their str8 faces or what. I realize 'they' want to just change the channel or flip the page when anything other than what 'they' believe in is right in front of them but dang!
The group wanted to put up the billboards in response to the lack of local support from schools, churches and the medical community for gay teens.
There was a story my Grandmom used to read to me when I was little called "Dust Under the Rug" where the lady kept sweeping the dust under the rug instead of shaking the rug everyday. So many kids today: gay, black, hispanic, poor, neglected, throwaway, abused are like dust under the rug.
I talk about this alot with a good friend on-line and we wonder why these people never look beyond the "label" into the hearts of the people they choose to condemn. I can't tell my parents; he can't tell his. I'm ashamed that I can't but they love me right now and that would be taken away.
Have you ever wondered why people are so afraid that their teenage kids would "choose" to be gay? Have they ever wondered at all what would be lacking in their family that their child would "choose" to live outside their faith? Outside their form of right and wrong? When you look at it from our side, it's all so stupid. Gay to me is just loving who you love........If that's wrong then I guess they can just flip the channel. I'll even hand them the remote.......
Sorry for the major rant
{{{hugs}}}
smith
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Dust Under the Rug
By: smith on Tue, 12 August 2003 15:01 |
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Re: Dust Under the Rug
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Re: Dust Under the Rug
By: timmy on Tue, 12 August 2003 15:59 |
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Thanks for the rant...well said...let's never forget the fundamentals!
By: Guest on Tue, 12 August 2003 16:03 |
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Was a good rant, smith.
By: lenny on Tue, 12 August 2003 17:12 |
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Re: Dust Under the Rug
By: trevor on Wed, 13 August 2003 01:51 |
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Changing Channels....
By: marc on Wed, 13 August 2003 08:31 |
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the billboard company
By: smith on Wed, 13 August 2003 10:58 |
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Then it was the billboards company's decision???
By: marc on Wed, 13 August 2003 22:05 |
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Re: Dust Under the Rug
By: timmy on Wed, 13 August 2003 11:36 |
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The times they are achangin'
By: charlie on Wed, 13 August 2003 14:47 |
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