Cody Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Heck there's plenty of gay clubs that wouldn't allow them in wearing that shirt. I would disagree. Not sure what gay bar you've been going too. And for those opposing this as a rosa park situation, I say to you, shame on you. These two situations have similarities to each other. Both are standing out from the "norm". Both are making full statements about their civil rights. Remember WE as gay couples can NOT get married and get the 1,500 fed rights that we deserve. We are being denied our human rights. What if you were being denied a right that majority of other fellow Americans can get? wouldn't you be angry? wouldn't you wanna make a statement? I know I would and I have. I've started wearing t-shirts about gay marriage and gay rights everywhere I go now, just because people become educated and know that we are here and we deserve to be treated equal, and trust me, staying silent isn't going to get us no where. Again, how is her shirt offensive??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AintNutinElse2Do Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Well to be blunt Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, this lady turned her shirt around. Rosa took a stand or seat I should say this lady made a complaint. I'm pro gay rights don't get me wrong but how is it right to act unequal and expect equality? There was nothing in me that told me start talking like a girl, to stop fishing, to stop working on my car and start wearing Hollister when I finally realized to myself I was gay. There's simply a time and a place to take a stand and a water park owned by a christian based company is not the place to do so. You wouldn't like it if a straight guy walked into a gay club with a shirt with a rabbit saying an obscene comment I can't make here. Which that last sentence is another example of a point I'm trying to make. Gay marriage will most likely happen within the decade but really isn't it just a piece of paper anyway? Yes there's those 1500 "lost" rights that for the most part we have ways around already and not to mention many companies offering domestic partnership benefits. Frankly I feel government should be taken out of the marriage equation altogether and only recognize domestic partnerships and let marriages be overseen by ones heart and their religion of choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingMaster Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 We don't go around handing out pamphlets saying "Convert to our belief and blah, blah, BS." And yet, there are some folks that do come to the park and do just that. They don't blatantly hand them out in public view, though; they stick them in bathroom stalls. And I have well over 60 of them to prove it. But in terms of the issue of gay marriage, I'll just say the same thing I've always said when someone brings up gay marriage in a negative light: "Dude, we have drive-thru chapels, people marrying for money or social status instead of love, and just flat-out abuse of marriage, and you have the nerve to both A] call it a SACRED institution and B] deny certain people of the ability to do the same exact things I just mentioned, all because you think they'll abuse it?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Good for Dollywood! I don't care what people wanna do with their life, it's the need to make a statement and where it across their chest and attempt influence other people's kids that makes it a problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 And for those opposing this as a rosa park situation, I say to you, shame on you. These two situations have similarities to each other. How is being asked to turn a shirt around anything like this: Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history. http://www.rosaparks...44:who-what-how I cannot see how refusing to give up a seat to a white male (because you are African-American) is even close to being asked to turn a shirt inside out when the sexual preference of the bearer of the shirt was never disclosed. If the bearer of the shirt was strait, would you still feel she is like Rosa Parks? Again, how is her shirt offensive??? While you and I understand the shirt is a play on words, others may take the "gay" part as slang/ offensive and question it. The last thing anyone wants on their vacation is to have kids questioning what "gay marriage" is/ means at Dollywood. There is a time and place for those conversations, and Dollywood is not that setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Just a reminder to all who want to participate in this discussion please stay with-in the KIC TOS. I have had to delete 4 post this morning and the next one will get this topic closed. Thank you TOS http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4128 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 I have now deleted 7 to 8 posts ( I lost count now ) and about split if I was to assume if they where speaking for a belief one way or the another. I have been accused of sticking up for both sides of the issue, Really!!!!! I am at work and this topic is way past due to be closed because we can not stick to the original topic at hand. Topic now closed, sorry ChazyG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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