library faced protests over gay documentary

[Swede]

Haters gotta hate.





After several hours of people pointing their fingers in her face and telling her she was going to hell, Keturah Cappadonia cracked.

In tears, the 28-year-old librarian in Coudersport, a rural town of 2,500 people, sent an e-mail to Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer, canceling the planned screening of their award-winning PBS documentary about the challenges of being openly gay in rural Pennsylvania.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/07/potter_county_library_challeng.html

[proteus_lives]

1. Poor woman.

And those lousy SOBs....:grr:

[RKP5637]

2. US has always had a good number of hatters. They always need a target to

hate. Gays are handy, it makes the hatters feel good. We have a fair number of psychopaths in this country that hide under the banner of religion to practice their hatred. I used to love rural Pennsylvania, but no more, another area on my list to avoid.

[Angry Dragon]

3. The comments following are very informative

The actual story leaves out a great deal.

[Kurovski]

4. K&R. (nt)

[ThomasQED]

5. Maybe PBS will do a follow-up show

including this as an example of what the challenges are.

[dsc]

7. you can't be serious

I grew up around the same area (rural north east Ohio as opposed to rural western PA) looking at a map I grew up about an hour and a half away from Oil City. I am also about 10 years older than the filmaker and about 20 years older than the kid featured. It was quite rough, let me tell you. He called his experience 8 hours of hell a day. For about four years of my schooling (grades 7 through 11) I would agree with that assessment. A day didn't go by that I was called faggot to my face as well as dozens of times behind my back. I was humiliated, especially in PE and at lunch. It was brutal. yeah and challenging.

[ThomasQED]

8. Maybe I didn't express myself well

I meant updating the story to show that you can't even try to TALK about the challenges without small minds getting overexcited and trying to prevent others from educating themselves. I certainly didn't mean to suggest that what happened at that library was as brutal as what you describe or what is in the documentary, if that's what you were thinking.

[dsc]

10. sorry I took your words wrong

as to the library I have no idea but I have seen the trailer for the film and have read about the kid who is featured in it.

[ThomasQED]

11. No problem.

I should have elaborated on my first comment.

:hi:

[HEyHEY]

6. What the fuck is wrong with people? n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. They could have turned a camera on and let it record

That's all the documentation needed to prove how hard it is when you have monsters like that running around.

[EFerrari]

12. The library board and staff did a great job.

I hope they get a lot of nice letters for what they did for that community.

[qb]

13. My opinion of librarians is raised even higher.

I have seen example after example of librarians standing up for intellectual freedom. The hatefulness of the so-called "Christians" in Coudersport is appalling.