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Rainbow Flag Will Fly Over Montreal City Hall During Olympics

blarg said:
perhaps you do
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Nope, I couldn't care less.....In fact I'm pretty sure that if you read back through the postings that I have contributed to the subject, I have a long history of saying I don't care if they get married or not....It just doesn't effect my life...So, best not to start a long history in here of being wrong about others, and best to know who you are posting to.
 
j-mac said:
Nope, I couldn't care less.....In fact I'm pretty sure that if you read back through the postings that I have contributed to the subject, I have a long history of saying I don't care if they get married or not....It just doesn't effect my life...So, best not to start a long history in here of being wrong about others, and best to know who you are posting to.
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aww so you only care enough to mention how much you don't care
 
blarg said:
aww so you only care enough to mention how much you don't care
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No, I care enough now to mock the seemingly daily barrage of gay agenda threads....I mean seriously dude, it is like spam.
 
Deuce said:
And that makes you just toss out freedom of speech. How sad.
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I thought liberals in here already taught us that someone's "freedom of speech" couldn't be effected by another person, only governments could curtail that?
 
j-mac said:
No, I care enough now to mock the seemingly daily barrage of gay agenda threads....I mean seriously dude, it is like spam.
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understandable the people on hear who believe theirs a gay agenda other then equal rights are kind of out their and vocal
 
j-mac said:
I thought liberals in here already taught us that someone's "freedom of speech" couldn't be effected by another person, only governments could curtail that?
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Russia is arresting people for exercising what Americans would refer to as free speech. Someone supporting free speech would defend the rights of those people, even if they personally disapprove of the speech itself.
 
Deuce said:
Russia is arresting people for exercising what Americans would refer to as free speech. Someone supporting free speech would defend the rights of those people, even if they personally disapprove of the speech itself.
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Well, that's Russia...That's why people tend to not like communist centric countries too much...And it is what we are trying to prevent here...
 
j-mac said:
No, I care enough now to mock the seemingly daily barrage of gay agenda threads....I mean seriously dude, it is like spam.
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sorry I keep that kind of thing going as much as any 1 just one of the few things where I feel like I know what im talking about

I tend to go over bored on the subject
 
blarg said:
sorry I keep that kind of thing going as much as any 1 just one of the few things where I feel like I know what im talking about

I tend to go over bored on the subject
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No worries...I really don't have a problem with gay couples....I knew quite a few of them when we lived in Maryland, and my wife was a graphic designer....The character of people really depends little on their sexual orientation....
 
Good for Montreal, but honestly I see a double standard. Many conservatives (and others) voiced opposition and concern over the Beijing Olympics and the fact that China restricts human rights with many being concerned by their restrictions on religious freedom and practice. There isn't nearly the same outcry, but Russia passing anti-homosexual "propaganda" laws? The whole liberal world goes in support and cries fowl over it. Back in China I remember many telling those concerned about China hosting that "these games are apolitical, it's a point to put politics aside and compete as nations" and other such stuff. I just smell a hint of hypocrisy or possible bias with the outrage over Russian laws concerning homosexuality and then back when the Olympics were hosted in China with not nearly the same level of international and personal opposition/activism.
 
AGENT J said:
its a nice gesture but id like to see more

what SHOULD be done is going forward in the future any country that has such bigoted laws should simply be ineligible for the olympics
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The whole idea of the Olympics is to bring nations together to pave the way for dialogue that might, for example, bring civilization to those corners of the world that need it. It is supposed to open doors, not shut them. The Olympics is meant to bring peace, not conflict.

We had no qualms about attending the Olympics along with all those totalitarian, communistic nations that oppressed their entire populations all through the Cold War, and now people want to see the Olympics essentially destroyed over LGBT issues? And they fancy themselves to be more enlightened and tolerant. What a joke.
 
I would much rather they fly the bear flag to be honest, the rainbow one is just gay.
 
blarg said:
so ignore the bigotry and attacks on free speech made under a false pretenses that telling people about homosexuality and asking them to not be abusive over it = trying to convert people into being gay

cause other places are worse

wait that's stupid and evil
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There's an old saying in the Marine Corps, "There always someone who didn't get the word."

There is no free speech in Russia and in most parts in the world.
 
Montecresto said:
It depends on what one considers significant. Let the republicans tell it and we are rife with voter fraud. But that is the mythical part of the electoral fraud. Annually it's a dozen or so Americans convicted of it, the real problem lies with local, state and federal governments.

Electorate manipulation
Manipulation of demography
Disenfranchisement
Intimidation
Vote buying
Misinformation
Misleading/confusing ballot papers
Ballot stuffing
Mis recording of votes
Misuse of proxy votes
Destruction of ballots
Tampering with electronic voting machines

All are ways that the electoral process in America is compromised. But if the virtue is, hey we're not as bad as Russia, then indeed, we're in good shape.
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Back in 1997 I was subpoenaed by Congress to testify before Congress as a witness with the voter fraud that took place during the 1996 Congressional elections between Rep. Bob Dornan (R) and Loretta Sanchez (D)

While a voter recount was being conducted almost six months after the elections the Orange County Register of Voters found two or three boxes of absentee ballots that were never counted. :eek:

I have never voted absentee again. Not knowing if my vote will be counted or not.

Re: the Dornan and Sanchez voter fraud. Loretta Sanchez is in Congress today because non citizens put her in Congress. The Republican in Congress didn't do jack #### about it.
 
Let your freak flag fly, I say. It's Montreal, a rather pathetic and worthless city anyway. Wave it loud and proud.
 
blarg said:
maybe it will but id like you to tell 1st
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Look for the Putin haters and the ones that want to knock China down a peg or two before they get too big and begin doing what we've been doing all along.
 
LowDown said:
1.)The whole idea of the Olympics is to bring nations together to pave the way for dialogue that might, for example, bring civilization to those corners of the world that need it. It is supposed to open doors, not shut them. The Olympics is meant to bring peace, not conflict.

2.)We had no qualms about attending the Olympics along with all those totalitarian, communistic nations that oppressed their entire populations all through the Cold War, and now people want to see the Olympics essentially destroyed over LGBT issues? And they fancy themselves to be more enlightened and tolerant. What a joke.
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1.) agreed 100% and in the future if these countries are ineligible conflict is suppressed

2.) thats a cute story but "who" wants that? seems at least you quoted the wrong person or at worse you are in the wrong thread. "see the olympics essential destroyed" LMAO
 
Montecresto said:
Look for the Putin haters and the ones that want to knock China down a peg or two before they get too big and begin doing what we've been doing all along.
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but theirs things to hate about putin and china other then their success so its not a good way to detect jealousy
 
Carjosse said:
The cities of St. John's, Quebec City, and Montreal will fly the rainbow LGBT flag to protest the treatment of gays in Russia for the duration of the Olympics in Sochi.



This article can be found at the Montreal Gazette.

I hope more cities will choose to protest the anti-gay laws in Russia by doing this. Hopefully we can get more Canadian cities to do it as well as some American cities. Do you think that your/nearest city would raise the LGBT flag?
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In my view, there are two problems with gestures like this.

1. They turn what should be a totally apolitical enterprise - amateur athletics - into a fight and a discussion that has nothing to do with the enterprise.

2. They focus attention on the matter and then, when the none related event ends, the focus of the attention dissipates and/or disappears.

Personally, I hate people hijacking important events for political grandstanding - even when I agree with the purpose of the grandstanding.
 
Montecresto said:
Wrong Doc. I don't excuse Russia's targeting of homosexuals. I don't believe the Olympics is the venue for taking up such things. And I'm not equivocating Russia with the US, but pointing out we have our excesses and abuses at home that have yet to be corrected and yet we seem to always have time to be pointing that critical finger at the rest of the world. And right or wrong is an opinion.
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There is plenty i can be critical of here and in russia at the same time. I would not want the olympics in US because in most states, gays still cannot marry the person they love, can be legally fired or denied housing and subject to other barbarities. Yet all that is still infinitely better than comrade vladimir's reign of terror, and there's plenty other locations to hold a winter olympics. You see, i can condemn the selection of russia as host without mentioning the US at all. It's you who keeps doing that.
 
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