May I Be Bitten By the Dayton, TN, County Commission's (Gay-Related)

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From the town that brought us the Scopes “Monkey Trial” . . .

DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) – More than 400 people turned out Saturday for a Rhea County Gay Day celebration prompted by the county commission’s vote to ban homosexuals and have them arrested for “crimes against nature.” That commission vote in March, although reversed two days later, changed Diana Cunningham’s life. “It enraged me. That meant they were going to ban me,” Cunningham said at Saturday’s celebration at a park. “I don’t want to harm anybody. I just want the same freedoms everybody has.”

A Friday demonstration against homosexuality in Dayton included preaching on the lawn of the courthouse where a jury in 1925 convicted John Scopes for teaching evolution. On Saturday, same-sex couples holding hands joined heterosexual couples at the park in the town of 6,200 people. Russ and Jennifer Bridges of Ringgold, Ga., sat listening to activists speak. “I’m not gay,” Russ Bridges said. “It’s all about humans getting together for a common cause.”

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See what happens when you cut-and-paste out of context? They made me so mad I incorrectly used a possessive apostrophe in my thread title!!

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Is it in this town’s charter that they have to be a century or so behind the rest of the world?

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Pay it no mind, folks.

They do this every year!

It attracts protestors & reporters, who have to eat, sleeps, launder their cloths, etc.

All of which they do in town. It’s like a convention, but cheesed-off.

Hey, it’s cheaper than building a theme park…

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I always screw that up. What are the rules for possessive apostrophes?

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Basically, an apostrophe-s is used to make the possessive for singular nouns (man’s) and plural nouns not ending in s (men’s).

An apostrophe is used alone to make possessives of plural nouns ending in s (bees’).

No apostrophe is used to make the possessive of pronouns (his, theirs, whose) except for “one’s”.

Except for the plurals of letters (“abbey” has two b’s), the apostrophe is NEVER used before a plural s.

As boiled down, “An apostrophe does not mean, ‘Here comes an s’!”

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In this case, however, it meant, “here comes a whole town of s’s.”

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They should just call it the yearly “Ignorance Festival”.

Hey, if they had mead and turkey legs, I might go. Those are the main reasons I go to Renaissance Festivals!

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It’s like a convention, but cheesed-off.
:smiley:

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Eve, just write it off as a disastrophe.

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Are you just kidding, or is this actually the case?

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Only semi-kidding.

Every year, they seem to pull this kind of stuff.

And it does draw “visitors”…of a sort.

I’ve suspected…but I can’t prove it. :dubious:

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If it makes you feel any better, the idea of Eve making such a mistake is so inconceivable that I spent a good two minutes trying to figure out the joke.

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See, I got the joke right away–at least as my browser tried to tell it. Since I used Opera as a web browser, and since Opera puts its name after every page title, Eve’s thread title on top of my browser read:

May I Be Bitten By the Dayton, TN, County Commission’s (Gay-Related) - Opera

I was trying to figure out what the gay-related opera was. “I dunno,” thought. “Are they doing a production of Hector Berlioz’s Les[bian] Troyens?” :stuck_out_tongue:

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I actually find it kind of uplifting.

The county commissioners decide to ban and arrest gays.

Public outcry makes them change their minds two days later.

A rally is held in their town that gays as straights attend.

They may still be bigots, but at least now they are bigots that know not everyone agrees with them and people will stand up to them.