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[novapsyche]

Most businesses in this southern Utah town have a tourism booster sticker in their front windows saying, "Everyone Welcome Here," which sounds pretty tame until you get to the little rainbow-colored people beneath the text.

Are those little people gay?

Terril Honey, for one, is convinced that they are. "The rainbow colors are their symbol," said Mr. Honey, a member of the City Council and owner of Honey's Jubilee, a grocery store. Mr. Honey has decided not to post the stickers at his store because he believes they would offend some of his customers.

Victor Cooper, who owns the Rocking V Cafe with his wife, Vicky, and led the drive in March to introduce the stickers, said people like Mr. Honey were reading things into the sticker message that are not there.

The mayor, Kim T. Lawson, recently floated a compromise to bridge the sticker gap: another sticker, similar but without the rainbow people. And the Kanab Chamber of Commerce intends to have new stickers, with the Chamber of Commerce logo replacing the little people, ready in time for the start of the tourism season next month.

"We don't want to step on the merchants that came together and did the 'everybody welcome' campaign, but on the other hand we want every business in town to feel comfortable putting out the same message," said Ted Hallisey, the acting president of the chamber. "If that means a little different sticker, we're O.K. with that — the main message is that everybody's welcome."

--Welcome to Our Town. Or, Maybe Not.

Comments

understand....

[magicmaiden.livejournal.com]

This sort of thing is one of the reasons I don't like that the gay/lesbian groups chose the rainbow for their symbol.

The rainbow used to mean diversity of people....all people, religions, etc...now...it has been reduced to one..or at least a confusion about that.

I would prefer that specific groups leave the rainbow alone...let it reflect human diversity in all its flavors once again and continuously.

Let gay/lesbian be part of the rainbow...not exclude the rest of us from the rainbow...as it is now...seemingly.

I like rainbows and have used the symbol long before and since it was taken over. If I could roll it back to the way it was...I would.

Maybe a rainbow inside some other symbol to reflect gays and lesbians as just as valid a part of the rainbow would be my preference...or something along that line.

Thanks for listening...and sharing...mm

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

except GAYS.
what the hell, Utah.

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

"Real figures are hard to come by, and tourism numbers are complicated by other factors, including $3 a gallon gasoline. Kortney Stirland, a pharmacist who describes himself as a conservative Republican and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, displays the sticker and opposes the natural family resolution, which he has twice asked the council to rescind. He says he has also been offended by people in the community who have told him that a person cannot oppose the resolution, as he does, and still believe in traditional values."
woah! a rational man! go Utah!
wait, a pharmacist huh? what if I drop my birth control off a cliff accidentally, will he replace it?

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

"Kortney Stirland, a pharmacist who describes himself as a conservative Republican and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, displays the sticker and opposes the natural family resolution, which he has twice asked the council to rescind. He says he has also been offended by people in the community who have told him that a person cannot oppose the resolution, as he does, and still believe in traditional values."

wow! a rational man. go Utah!
a pharmacist, eh? If I accidentally drop my birth control off a cliff, will he replace it? or am I a few arrows short of "a full quiver of children"?