blog advertising is good for you

Blogroll


Favorites


Instapundit
FrontPageMag.Com
Michelle Malkin
Ankle Biting Pundits
Little Green Footballs
Lucianne.com
The Corner
Weekend Pundit

Local Commentary


GilfordGrok
NH Insider
Pun Salad
Rob Boyce Blog
Drew Cline
New Hampshire Commentary
Laconia's Purse
One Voice In Gilford
The Blogging Councilor
ConChrist (Lori Ingham)

Local News


The Citizen (Lakes Region)
The Laconia Daily Sun
The Gilford Steamer
The Union Leader
The Concord Monitor
The Nashua Telegraph

Activists


Bow Citizens Coalition
Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers
Epping Residents for Principled Government
Moultonborough Citizens Alliance
State Sunshine and Open Records
Wiki for Freedom of Information Act
Sunshine Review
BallotPedia

Sam Adams Alliance blogs

Free Market and Limited Government


Sam Adams Alliance>

RedState
Flat Creek Management
John Fund-Wall Street Journal
Face the State
Fort Hard Knox
Americans for Prosperity
American Princess
ARRA News Service
Mount Virtus
ILGOPnet
Stix
Wichita Liberty
Kansas Meadowlark
Louisiana Conservative
Maine Web Report
Mackinac Center
Outside Lansing
Gateway Pundit
Montana Politics
Muth’s Truths
Granite Grok
Mario Burgos
Thurber’s Thoughts
Oklahoma Political News Service
Tennessee Policy Institute
Leslie Carbone
Sound Politics
Real Debate Wisconsin
Haemet
Grizzly Groundswell
Sibby Online


News


BlogNetNews for NH
CNSNews
Drudge Report
WorldNetDaily
Snopes
RefDesk

Islamic World


Gates Of Vienna
Dhimmi Watch
Jihad Watch
MEMRI

Pure Politics


Our Friend Pat's Townhall columns
Liz Mair
NH Primary News Links
PolitickerNH
PorkBusters
Real Clear Politics
Red State

MilBlogs


Blackfive
Defense Tech
Sgt Stryker
OpFor
Strategy Page
Michael Yon Online Magazine
Mudville Gazette

Victory Caucus

Environmentalism (or not)


Junk Science
US Senate Comm. on Environ. - Public Works

Geeky Stuff


Geek Press
Slashdot

Education


F.I.R.E.
Joanne Jacobs
Thomas Fordham Foundation
EIA Intercepts
Core Knowledge

Blog Commentaries


Austin Bay
Babalu Blog
Belmont Club
Betsy's Page
Captain's Quarters
Conservative Grapevine
Contentions
Eye on the UN
Hugh Hewitt
Junkyard Blog
Overlawyered
Politicaldoodle
Mark Steyn
Neal Boortz
TCS Daily
Townhall.com
Power Line
Right Wing News
NewsBusters

Radio and TV Shows


Howie Carr (radio)
Political Chowder(TV)
The Rush Limbaugh Show (radio)

Design - Architecture - Stuff


Engadget
Gizmodo
Inhabitat
Uncrate

Presidential Campaign Sites

Last Man Standing


John McCain


Humor


DILBERT BLOG


« As I get ready to go to the NH Republican meeting... | Main | Meet The New Press - Podcast for 05/17/08 »

And you thought childhood was for having fun and stuff...

Gay Pride Parade
MassResistance photo of youths marching in Boston parade

As reported by MassResistance, last Saturday

was homosexual "Youth Pride Day" in Boston, run by the tax-funded Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth. It included a "celebration" on the Boston Common followed by a parade past the State House and a "transgender prom" that evening at Boston City Hall.

Got that? AT BOSTON CITY HALL! Several years ago, my wife and I had tickets to a play in Boston. While there, we noticed that everywhere we went, the lamp posts had rainbow flag-banners proclaiming it to be some sort of city-wide gay celebration. Upon investigating we discovered that there is, in fact, a large annual event that has gone on for many years in that city, and yes, the city and its taxpayers are the lead sponsor. So therefore, to learn of a "transgender prom" happening at City Hall shouldn't be surprising. Don't confuse "Youth Pride Day" with the weeklong "celebration", however, because this year's Boston Pride Week doesn't even start till June 6th. Apparently this youth event is like a bonus. I guess you can't celebrate this stuff enough.

OneNewsNow reports

Children were bused in from all over Massachusetts to take part in the "youth pride day" event that featured a parade in Boston, speeches, special awards, and a transgender ball at Boston's city hall.
 
Brian Camenker, head of the Massachusetts based pro-family group MassResistance, says the homosexual youth rally was organized using taxpayer money. "And it was run by the state-funded organization called the Massachusetts Commission on Gay\Lesbian\Bi-sexual and Transgender Youth  – which was created by the legislature and uses hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money," Camenker contends.

And this:

Camenker says at one point, the crowd got violent when they spotted photographers from MassResistance. "They claimed that by our taking pictures and by putting them on our website that we were hurting the kids because their parents didn't know that they were there and they would be 'outed,'" Camenker explains.

Yet the event is created, funded, and organize by adults-- helping kids do something that, as shown by the above passage, they obviously don't want their parents to know about. Nice. Real nice.

Oh, and one other good point to ponder-- While state laws everywhere now require a background check for adults that volunteer for children (my wife had to do this to teach CCD at our Church), MassResistance documents the fact that, for this event, those rules need not apply. I suppose that makes sense. Why would anyone think that there would be dangerous adults in this group?

youth pride parade
MassResistance photo from 2007 Youth Pride Day. Their description notes, "A huge man in a dress marching with two girls dressed as boys. This man showed up everywhere that day."

 

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://granitegrok.com/blog-mt/mt-tb.cgi/2224

Comments

I'm generally willing to live and let live on this issue, but taxpayer dollars? And adults exploitng children? It strikes me that the organizers' names belong on the predator lists!

Post a comment


PODCAST

Care and Feeding of GraniteGrok by PoliGrok, LLC

blog advertising is good for you
Powered by
Movable Type 3.35
mobile phone