Tarrant County Commissioner Devan Allen, above, on Friday evening, June 28, presented a copy of the proclamation passed earlier this week by the Commissioners Court recognizing June as Gay Pride Month to DeeJay Johannsen with the Health Education Learning Project. Dr. Barbara Odom Wesley, below, presented Johannsen with a similar proclamation from the city of Arlington. Allen nad Welsey presented the proclamations during a private reception featuring the “Keith Haring: Against All Odds” exhibit at the Arlington Museum of Art. The exhibit runs through Sept. 15 at the Arlington museum, and this is the last time the exhibit will travel because the Rubell Family Foundation is building a museum in MIami for it. (Chad Mantooth/Dallas Voice)
My rights as a Christian has been violated by the county. The government should not impose any belief system any gender recognition to the people.
I demand the recognition has to be removed from the record in the City Arlington should be a shame of Behavior
Just out of curiosity, what belief system do you think the city of Arlington has imposed on you by recognizing June as Pride Month? There is no religion affiliated with being LGBTQ. I think of myself as Christian, although a much more informed and progressive Christian than what you seem to be. My coworker is Jewish. I know LGBT people who are Muslim, who are atheists, who are pagans, etc. Those are belief systems. Being LGBT is not. Recognizing Pride means recognizing that, as the founding documents of this country promise, all people are created equal and deserve all the same rights and protections as anyone else. I was born gay. You chose your religion. Why should our government protect your choices while discriminating against me for the way I was born?
God did NOT make you gay!
Romans 1:25-27.
Hi Freddy,
Perhaps you misunderstand the 1st Amendment, which was framed to protect your right to your own religious beliefs without the beliefs of others forced upon you by law. Many of our Constitutional amendments are framed to protect the minority from majority rule, particularly but nowhere near exclusively the 14th Amendment. That aside, if you’re reading the Dallas Voice you may fall into one of two categories: 1) an angry, bitter little person with nothing better to do than troll minority news outlets in search of opportunities to express your personal, biased speech; or 2) someone who we will find with your face hidden on an LGBTQ dating app (though I acknowledge other, less likely, possibilities than these two).
The state and church are separate. Your religion should not dictate what can or cannot be implemented by the government.
The lat time I checked, the only entities that recognize any particular religion’s “rights” are that religion, and the least time I checked, during my adulthood, after a Christian upbringing, Christ never afforded anyone “rights”, He merely treated everyone he met with unconditional love, acceptance and respect. That was true of those who made poor CHOICES, such as the prostitutes, as well as folks who had differences or disabilities that are genetic.
Your CHOICE to not accept folks who are LGBTQ, because of their GENES is no different than CHOOSING to dislike/mistrust/hate/marginalize women or people of color.
LGTBQ people should no more have to hide the facts of their genes than bald folks, curly haired folks, brown folks, albino folks, short people, tall people, brunettes, blondes, or redheads.
The City of Arlington has done many things with which I disagree over the years, including things that cause me to decide that I no longer wanted to live there after almost 30 years, but THIS, this makes me proud of Arlington, and their decision to be more openly accepting of almost 900,000 Texans, 31% of whom are raising children, either as single parents or as part of a same sex couple. No Texan should EVER feel oppressed because of the circumstances of their birth or their Gene’s, THIS is an important step in reducing, hopefully eliminating said oppression.
The City doing this in no way infringes on ANY of your rights as an American or a Texan. You won’t be forced to participate in events. Just go on your merry way and live your life, while allowing others to live theirs.
God doesn’t make anyone gay. He calls it an abomination.
Also, Romans 1:25-27.
The Bible says for a man to lay with another man as if she is a woman is an ABOMINATION in God’s eyes
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If a gay man is attracted to another man, why do they have sex with a man who acts like a WOMAN
AMERICA IS TURNING INTO SODOM AND GOMMORAH. READ YOUR BIBLE