Joe.My.God. LGBT News
NBC News reports:
For the past two years, thousands of people have descended on a public park in Franklin, Tennessee — a suburb 30 minutes outside Nashville — for an LGBTQ pride festival featuring live music, food trucks and crafts vendors. But this year, Franklin Pride’s attempts to obtain a city permit have been met with fierce resistance. What had been a procedural formality in past years has become a bitter flashpoint that mirrors similarly heated debates roiling the United States.
More than 30 people, many of them wearing circular “Choose Decency” stickers, pleaded with Franklin’s mayor and the city board’s eight aldermen to deny the pride permit. One mother claimed that the festival was part of a coordinated national movement to groom children. A man read a passage from the Bible about resisting “sexual immorality.” “You think you are doing things based on laws,” a crying woman said, “but you are letting Satan in.”
Read the full article. Festival organizers have already agreed that there won’t be any drag performances.
The irony of opponents wearing stickers that said ‘Choose Decency’ while urging discrimination, hate, and homophobia against fellow Americans says so much. — In Franklin, Tennessee, an LGBTQ pride festival meets fierce resistance https://t.co/IAJweTxJvR via @nbcnews
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) April 11, 2023