Gay ordinance triggers hate mail (Bettendorf IA)

leQ

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Mon Dec-06-04 10:26 AM
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Gay ordinance triggers hate mail (Bettendorf IA)

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041206/NEWS10/412060362/1001">Des Moines Register has a short article on Bettendorf (part of the Quad Cities) giving equal rights to gays.

A proposed ordinance making it illegal to discriminate against gays and lesbians in Bettendorf has generated hate mail and irate phone calls for city council members.

Councilwoman Debe LaMar said her vote in support of the revision to the city's civil rights ordinance made her a target for angry letters and calls.

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A crowd of at least 100 opponents packed the council chambers on Nov. 2, the night of the third and final vote.

i wonder what church got the natives all riled up.

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Ian David

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Mon Dec-06-04 10:40 AM
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1. Discrimination now! Discrimination forever!

2-4-6-8 We want to discriminate!

Oh, the people in Jesusland are so enlightened!

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Mon Dec-06-04 10:41 AM
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2. "Most of the letters I received that were against it quoted the Bible,"

Ah yes, intolerance, hatred, and fear. The new trinity of Christendom.

But it is nice to see some in IA fighting against the morality gestapo.

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area51

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Mon Dec-06-04 12:12 PM
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7. Quoting the Bible

They should write back & quote the parts of the Bible where it says not to eat shellfish & not to wear clothes of mixed fabrics. Typical "cafeteria Christians".

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xchrom

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Mon Dec-06-04 10:46 AM
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3. christian hatred -- what a surprise!

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karlrschneider

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Mon Dec-06-04 11:01 AM
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4. Couldn't get your link to work...dunno why but this one should

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041206/NEWS10/412060362/1001

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Endangered Specie

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Mon Dec-06-04 11:11 AM
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5. and for a moment there I thought it was Muslim hate mail...

</sarcasm>.... nope, Christians. :sigh:

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Mon Dec-06-04 12:07 PM
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6. Bettendorf is a heavily GOP town

A vast wasteland of strip malls and Mc Mansions. The fundies have some influence there, but not as much as the "money" GOP. This is more than likely an effort by area wide "Christians". Bettendorf may be GOP but it is a red island in the blue sea of eastern Iowa, northwestern Illinois.

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Tyler Durden

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Mon Dec-06-04 12:16 PM
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8. My second favorite verse from the King James Version:

1John.3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

You see, they don't seem to have this "New Testament" thingy quite down yet.

LOVELY prose, thought.

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