Thoughts on gay crosswalks?

[Bucky]

Personally I have no problem with the rainbow/gay crosswalks being painted in major cities now but I feel we are shoving ideals and principles down people's throats that have different beliefs.

IMO they shouldn't be allowed. Nazi groups do not have a right to pay for swastika crosswalks neither do groups like ISIS. IMO these gay crosswalks are completely unnecessary and a waste of money.

 

[Josie]

Personally I have no problem with the rainbow/gay crosswalks being painted in major cities now but I feel we are shoving ideals and principles down people's throats that have different beliefs.

IMO they shouldn't be allowed. Nazi groups do not have a right to pay for swastika crosswalks neither do groups like ISIS. IMO these gay crosswalks are completely unnecessary and a waste of money.

*stares*

Maybe you should spend your time worried about more important things.

 

[ibelsd]

If a community wants rainbow colored crosswalks, rock on. If they want to paint little crosses inside their crosswalks, have at it. What's the point of having a community if you cannot express the values of your community in public? What's the point of having values if you have to keep them secret? We need more expression in this country, not more ways to suppress it. So, long as the people expressing themselves are doing it with their own tax dollars, have a blast! Now, if the money is coming from some sort of federal or state grant, I am not so accommodating.

 

[Bucky]

*stares*

Maybe you should spend your time worried about more important things.

IMO it is actually hurting the LGBTQ community more because often times these gay crosswalks are in LGBTQ neighborhoods which puts a target on their backs.. This allows haters to easily identify and discriminate against them.

 

[Josie]

IMO it is actually hurting the LGBTQ community more because often times these gay crosswalks are in LGBTQ neighborhoods which puts a target on their backs.. This allows haters to easily identify and discriminate against them.

Uh huh. You're just thinking about gays, right?

 

[Grand Mal]

IMO it is actually hurting the LGBTQ community more because often times these gay crosswalks are in LGBTQ neighborhoods which puts a target on their backs.. This allows haters to easily identify and discriminate against them.

Yeahright. Like you don't know where the gay area is without the rainbow crosswalks.

They catch attention, which is what a crosswalk is supposed to do. My only quibble about them is making a left turn on a motorcycle in the rain. Those wide white stop lines can make your back tire twitch when you cross them wet and leaning into the turn. Those big rainbow-painted crosswalks must make you tiptoe across them in the rain.

 

[Carjosse]

Personally I have no problem with the rainbow/gay crosswalks being painted in major cities now but I feel we are shoving ideals and principles down people's throats that have different beliefs.

IMO they shouldn't be allowed. Nazi groups do not have a right to pay for swastika crosswalks neither do groups like ISIS. IMO these gay crosswalks are completely unnecessary and a waste of money.

Does Bucky need a safe space? Please tell me how exactly a rainbow crosswalk imposes beliefs on you? Also the city has to paint crosswalks anyways.

 

[Henrin]

I don't want to pay for that dumb ****. They need to keep their agendas out of other peoples pockets.

 

[Henrin]

Does Bucky need a safe space? Please tell me how exactly a rainbow crosswalk imposes beliefs on you? Also the city has to paint crosswalks anyways.

It's the fact that people are imposing their beliefs on others while using tax money to do it that is the problem.

 

[MaggieD]

Personally I have no problem with the rainbow/gay crosswalks being painted in major cities now but I feel we are shoving ideals and principles down people's throats that have different beliefs.

IMO they shouldn't be allowed. Nazi groups do not have a right to pay for swastika crosswalks neither do groups like ISIS. IMO these gay crosswalks are completely unnecessary and a waste of money.

Gay crosswalks??? You have GOT to be kidding! Well, I've heard it all.

 

[Henrin]

Gay crosswalks??? You have GOT to be kidding! Well, I've heard it all.

They have been around for a while.

 

[ModerateRN]

Personally I have no problem with the rainbow/gay crosswalks being painted in major cities now but I feel we are shoving ideals and principles down people's throats that have different beliefs.

IMO they shouldn't be allowed. Nazi groups do not have a right to pay for swastika crosswalks neither do groups like ISIS. IMO these gay crosswalks are completely unnecessary and a waste of money.

Interesting. I didn't realize this was a thing outside of San Francisco. I wonder if members of the LGBT community appreciate something like this. I would assume they would want to be treated the same as everyone else, and not treated like they are different. It seems in the effort to walk on eggshells and be PC we have taken it too far and treat the LGBT like children than need to be coddled. The members of the LGBT I know do not have their sexual preferences be what defines them; as society we need to make it not be how we define them either.

 

[Hawkeye10]

I find the huge multi-color crosswalks in Seattle distracting, which likely makes them dangerous, which means they should go away.

 

[Henrin]

So what is the added cost for all the extra and completely unnecessary colors?

 

[Grand Mal]

Gay crosswalks??? You have GOT to be kidding! Well, I've heard it all.


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This one's in Vancouver...



I got no problem with them, except the one quibble I wrote about riding a motorcycle across them in the rain (which I haven't done yet, I'm just going by how other painted lines are when they're wet).
I think it looks good myself.

 

[Mr Person]

If crosswalks are hitting on you, either take less acid or learn to enjoy the absurdity.

 

[Grand Mal]

So what is the added cost for all the extra and completely unnecessary colors?

Who cares? They look pretty good.
Everything the government does doesn't need to look institutional.

 

[Carjosse]

It's the fact that people are imposing their beliefs on others while using tax money to do it that is the problem.

Still never told me how it imposes beliefs on people. So you think government should stay out of the crosswalk painting business as well?

 

[Mr Person]

It's the fact that people are imposing their beliefs on others while using tax money to do it that is the problem.

How do you feel about gay people?

 

[Henrin]

How do you feel about gay people?

I want them to keep it to themselves, but otherwise I don't care.

 

[Henrin]

Still never told me how it imposes beliefs on people. So you think government should stay out of the crosswalk painting business as well?

It is there to support a social agenda, which people may or may not agree with.

 

[Henrin]

Who cares? They look pretty good.
Everything the government does doesn't need to look institutional.

I do. The government can waste its own money when it figures out how to get its own money.

 

[Carjosse]

It is there to support a social agenda, which people may or may not agree with.

Well sucks to be you, go hide in your safe space.

 

[Henrin]

Well sucks to be you, go hide in your safe space.

How about liberals just stop imposing their **** on me instead. If you people don't like division then maybe you should stop causing it.

 

[Carjosse]

Who cares? They look pretty good.
Everything the government does doesn't need to look institutional.

He is afraid he will catch the gay.