The county that was the site of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution is asking lawmakers to amend state law so the county can charge homosexuals with crimes against nature.
The Rhea County commissioners approved the request 8-0 Tuesday.
Commissioner J.C. Fugate, who introduced the measure, also asked the county attorney to find a way to enact an ordinance banning homosexuals from living in the county.
This is just absurd. They are going to try to keep gays out of the community? Does this mean that they're going to forcibly remove those that are already living there?
It's communities like this that give 'redneck' a negative connotation.
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How Y'all feel about this?
The county that was the site of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution is asking lawmakers to amend state law so the county can charge homosexuals with crimes against nature.
The Rhea County commissioners approved the request 8-0 Tuesday.
Commissioner J.C. Fugate, who introduced the measure, also asked the county attorney to find a way to enact an ordinance banning homosexuals from living in the county.
"We need to keep them out of here," Fugate said.
As much as I may sympathize with these folks, I feel that they have yet to enter the 20th Century, much less the 21st Century, and have learned NOTHING since the 1920's!! These people are NOT CONSERVATIVES, they are downright reactionary, and their efforts have about as much chance as Sam McGee did in the Yukon!!
(IN OTHER WORDS, THEY'RE WHISTLIN' DIXIE, Y'ALL!!)
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You want to keep convicted child molesters out, sexual deviants out, white trailer trash out, drug dealers out .... why not keep gays out as well ?
good idea Stealthy, they should also keep out guys who dig fat chicks, woman who like balding men, tall people from having sex with short people and so on...
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If that's what the residents there want, I don't see a problem with it. They're the ones who pay the taxes, set up their towns' infrastructures, and take care of the day to day operations of their community. Like it or not, homosexuality is still (and hopefully always will be) a highly controversial lifestyle. Many people (I'm one of them) see it as a sin against God, not to mention a crime against nature. As stealthy mentioned, you'd want to keep child molesters out of your neighborhood (that's why we always throw a fit when we see a sex offender's picture showing up in the database with our street listed as his address). Regardless of how some classify homosexuality (as just an alternative lifestyle) some people see it differently. And if an entire community feels that way, well, like I already said. . . They're the ones that pay the taxes and make the rules there. And they're the ones who have to live with it, not MattinNH or Eldeguello. I've got several friends in Rhea County and, frankly, calling them rednecks or saying they're not conservative when you guys don't have a clue about who they are or what they're about is a bit offending.
The courts will disagree with me, I know, but that's how I feel about it. Somewhere back before the days when the South seceded from the North, we forgot what Democracy was truly about and the federal government began forcing its will on the people. That continues to this day, but it is no more right in 2004 than it was in 1860.
We'd better serve ourselves by keeping our nose out of what some podunkt town down the road is doing and take care of our business at home. It's probably a pretty safe bet that there are no gays in all of Rhea County. And if there are and they don't like this ruling, they can simply move across the river to Cleveland, Tn.
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