# There are no Gays here. Move Along.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-gays-here-move-along/220732>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 23, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-gays-here-move-along/220732 "2003-12-23T22:24:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-gays-here-move-along/220732/1 "2003-12-23T22:24:59Z")

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[from the Advocate](http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=10835&sd=12/23/03)

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> Images of gay rights demonstrations at the National Mall will be removed from a video display that has been running at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995, according to a civil service group. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said the National Park Service, under pressure from far-right religious groups, has agreed to alter the eight-minute video containing photos and footage of demonstrations and other events taking place at the Lincoln Memorial.
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> The Park Service said it would develop a “more balanced” version that include rallies of the Christian group Promise Keepers and pro-Gulf War demonstrators, though those events did not take place at the Lincoln Memorial or the National Mall.

These changes are ordered by National Parks Service Deputy Director Donald Murphy, who earlier in the year overruled the Grand Canyon National Park supervisor and ordered the return to public view of three bronze plaques bearing biblical verses. Under his leadership the Park Service is fighting the removal of an oversized cross in the Mojave National Preserve in California.

Does this administration have no sense of SOCAS? How can they justify altering the record to fit their white-washed dream-world where gays, anti-war protestors and abortion-rights marchers don’t exist. How can they claim to be “uniters not dividers” when they use our National Parks to further their religion?

Is there no end?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-gays-here-move-along/220732/2 "2003-12-23T23:13:38Z")

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Hard to know whether some folks need a stick pulled out of their ass, or one shoved in there.

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-no-gays-here-move-along/220732/3 "2003-12-23T23:17:49Z")

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Duplicate.