The people across the street.

The BBQ Pit
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Note: This is not about neighbors. This is about the people across the street from the Georgia Capitol this afternoon. In front of the capitol there was a rally for civil rights (protesting an amendment to the Georgia constitution banning Gay marriage and civil unions), and the people across the street were counter protesting.

Normally, I have no problem with people expressing their views. This is a free country, first amendment rights, all that.
But you people didn’t have a permit.
You didn’t have a permit to stand in front of the capitol, where you originally tried to assemble.
You didn’t have a permit to go across the street and protest on that church’s property. That’s trespassing, and you’re lucky they didn’t have you arrested.

If that wasn’t enough, your rhetoric certainly was. I don’t care if two plugs don’t fit together. I’m not a plug. I don’t want to hear you assert that all homosexuals practice bestiality, or that all homosexuals are pedophiles, or that all homosexuals like gerbils. Hell, I don’t even know what you were getting at with that last one. Speaking of hell, I also don’t care that you think I’m going to burn in fire and brimstone for all eternity. I’m Jewish. I get told that a lot.
So go away. We don’t really care. You’ll probably win on Nov. 2, but at least we fought the good fight.

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Ah, gerbils. I was once picketing against Fred Phelps and I had one of his ten year old grandchildren taunt me about gerbils. That man is a monster, filling little kids heads with such garbage.

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You need a permit to protest?

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You need one to protest on the steps of the capitol.

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Your papers, please. Schnell!

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I don’t understand the OP. They were protesting against a gay marriage amendment? Yet they were denigrating gays like that?

That’s odd.

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You don’t need the permit to be there, it’s for bringing a loudspeaker or other sound amplication thing.

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What if you brought an opera singer?

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Or yell in unison with signs?

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I wouldn’t know. Maybe I’ll ask the next time I’m over there.

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What if you weren’t a one-note asshole?

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It took me a re-reading, but the OP is addressing the counterprotesters, the ones that showed up to protest those who are against the amendment.

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Whoosh!

I think Reeder was being amusing. I was surprised, too.

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Mm, quite likely. Maybe I’ll have to re-read that post too… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Where are you gonna find an anti-gay opera singer? They’d alienate two-thirds of their audience.

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I hear the lungs on a sentient giant squid are pretty potent :smiley:

I agree with Liberal, this time. However, %99 of the population doesnt want to have it both ways, so may as well consistently enforce the law.