{"id":146,"date":"2006-03-30T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/146"},"modified":"2006-03-30T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T15:37:09","slug":"well-maybe-ill-stop-again-in-kanab-again-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/146","title":{"rendered":"Well Maybe I’ll Stop Again In Kanab Again After All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like the decent folk in town aren’t taking that "Natural Family" resolution laying down<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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(Kanab, Utah) Signs began popping up in store windows this week in Kanab, Utah proclaiming ”Everyone welcome here!” in a desperate move to avoid a threatened gay boycott. Some businesses went so far as putting small rainbow flag stickers on their front doors.<\/p>\n

Dozens of business owners in the small southern Utah community are trying all they can to distance themselves from a proclamation by the city council that Kanab supports the "natural family" consisting of a working husband, a stay-at-home wife and a "full quiver of children."<\/p>\n

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The signs and stickers are being distributed by the Kanab Boosters, a business owners group. The Boosters are selling the signs and small stickers for cars for between $2.50 and $4.50. <\/p>\n

The group hopes to raise enough money to take out newspaper ads throughout the state to promote the town as a diverse place to vacation.<\/p>\n

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Kanab is the only Utah governmental entity to pass the resolution, which was sent to cities all over Utah by the Salt Lake City-based Sutherland Institute, a conservative think tank. <\/p>\n

Earlier this week Sutherland President Paul Mero told the AP that studies show community problems such as crime, violence and poverty increase when family structures break down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I question (as in ironically) the importance Mero places on intact families, so long as he’s busy teaching families to hate their gay and lesbian sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles.  But anyway…\n<\/p>\n

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That view was supported by Councilor Terril Honey who voted for the measure. Honey, who also is a local businessman, said it isn’t the council that is discriminatory, its the boosters.<\/p>\n

He says that the poster and sticker campaign is likely to drive away families.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You gotta love how the bigot mind works.  Gay people have families too of course, and families have gay people in them.  And that never occurs to a jackass like Honey.  But…never mind…  The Everyone Welcome Here<\/em> signs are discriminatory, because they will drive away people won’t go anywhere everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like the decent folk in town aren’t taking that "Natural Family" resolution laying down… (Kanab, Utah) Signs began popping up in store windows this week in Kanab, Utah proclaiming ”Everyone welcome here!” in a desperate move to avoid a threatened gay boycott. Some businesses went so far as putting small rainbow flag stickers on their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fighting-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}