Excuse Me, But The State That Has Mardi Gras Thinks That Rainbow Flags Are Over The Top?
You gotta love Louisiana. Well, you don’t but I do because it’s right next door and my Daddy was born in New Orleans. A lot of family couldn’t read a map so they never got to Texas.
So, the Pride Day in Lafayette was held at a public park and the celebrants hoisted a rainbow flag up the flag pole. No American flags were removed or flown below the rainbow flag.
Korean War veteran Ray Green says he was offended by the flag on public property.
“I did not go overseas and fight for our country so that we could come back and be subject to something like that,” Green said Friday. “Several of us (veterans) feel that the flying of this flag is a poke in the eye of a way of life.”
Now, I don’t want to be picky but a whole bunch of gay folks also served in the military to fight for their right to have a way of life that’s none of Ray Green’s business.
But, let’s not let reason enter into this. Heavens, no!
Ray continues in the hometown newspaper —
“That has offended many, many, many veterans. It offended me,” he said.
Green said he’s not “against the gays” but is against “the act itself.”
Well then, Ray, don’t do that act.
And he puts icing on the gay cake by adding —
“And I’m against the possibility of them getting together for another demonstration and taking down the American flag,” he said.
And, Ray, I am against the possibility that you might strip yourself nakkid except for some boobie beads and parade down I-10 singing about Marie Laveau. So we better not let you outta the house. Hell, you might even do that act itself. Apparently, just because you haven’t done something before now doesn’t mean you won’t.
We have to careful about things like this. You just never know.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
I have to wonder if he’s just as irate about people going to July 4th parades with “SECEDE!” bumper stickers — or can his case of rectal-cranial inversion think of something that complicated?
1Nobody made him go there to that event. He coulda got in a huff and left. It wouldna hurt nobuddy’s feelins’. He coulda hoisted his own American flag on his own flag pole. Nobuddy woulda cared. Bless his heart. Wait til he finds out his favorite cousin is gay.
2*SIGH* the words “way of life” are beginning to trigger a seeing-red-slavering-homicidal moment deep in my brainstem (this has been caused by a woman of my acquaintance, Catholic, who precedes those fell words with “our” and blabs on about the Founding Fathers like she was there!); their dog-whistle may turn me into a werewolf!
I wonder if my hair will be perfect? Ah – oooooh….
3“’That has offended many, many, many veterans. It offended me,’ (Ray) said.”
Apparently Ray thinks he’s not just one veteran – he’s many, many veterans. Sounds like multiple personality disorder, so I’d suggest psychiatric treatment.
4Five bucks says Ray has a confederate flag decal on his rear window.
5I’ve met a whole lot of gay men in my life in LA and now here in DC–and in the 1970s and 1980s EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM. was a veteran. Plus, I was a WAC, back in the day, and met a whole lot of gay women. This guy must have gone through life with blinders on.
Why, oh why, can’t people realize when the issue is OVER. (Sorry for the caps–I prefer italics–but can’t figure out how to do them in the comments section).
6I’m sure that all veterans do not feel the way Ray does since many vets are gay. Besides, who voted on Ray speaking for them and did he serve in combat? So many of the guys who talk the most about being vets never were in harm’s way.
7If he didn’t fight for the people of this country to be free from prejudice, free from verbal and physical abuse and free to pursue happiness, what the heck did he fight for?
8Obviously he thinks it was for the right to tell other people how to live their lives. Another recruit for the Westboro Baptists.
Oh, Ray baby! What the hell are you talkin’ about! You sound kinda confused! Best stay in the shade and just sip some home made lemonade! My goodness!
9I think Ray should either get out more or stay home more.
I would say he should read the Bible he probably believes in, but I very much doubt he’d read the right parts– like where Jesus says bupkis about gays.
10A core part of the military way of life consists of a lot of guys living together in enforced intimacy. Some are gay, most are not, but as a lifestyle it has a tendency to exclude women.
11This guy fought in the Korean War, which should help us to realize that this is a generational thing. In the early 1950s, he served in a military that had abolished segregation within its ranks less than a decade before, and the Brown v. Board of Education decision desegregating the schools was still at least two years away. At the Army induction center, if the shrinks giving recruits a 90-second interview thought a person might be gay, they slapped the guy’s medical sheet with a red stamp so big that it only fit diagonally on the page – Bam! – “Homosexual”! Then they rejected him for service and sent him home. For some Korean veterans like this guy, making it into the service as a heterosexual became a personal badge of honor that stays with them to this day. At least nobody thought HE was queer!
12Sounds like he lost the “hunk of the month” competition.
13It always amazes me that people who are not gay, always seem to think they are experts on the “life style” of gays.
I’m still trying to figure out what that “life style” actually
includes.
After 73 years of being gay, one would think that I somehow would have gotten a clue……..alas………still waiting.
My Dad, a veteran of WWII and Korea, laid two bits of wisdom on me when I was young. 1) If a guy hits on you and you tell him you’re not interested, he’ll leave you alone and 2) NEVER judge a man by the color of his skin, judge him by the job he does for you. God, I miss Dad.
14“…strip yourself nakkid except for some boobie beads and parade down I-10 singing about Marie Laveau.”
Would that then make him Boobie Bare? (get it?)
Down in Louisiana where the bigots grow
Lived a gay cross dresser named Marie Laveau
Got a black lace teddy and a tucked back bone
And any old hater won’t let her alone
She’d go oooooEEEE another man done gone
She lives on Bourbon where she can be seen
With a pageant beauty and an aging queen
She got a killer body made of latex pads
And if any old hater goes and makes her mad
She goes oooooEEEE another man done gone
Into the picture come-a crazy Ray
A creepy kinda cracker with a mean old way
He lived in a closet with his muscle mags
And cruised on the lookout for rainbow flags
And if he ever found one he’d tear it down
‘Cause no one but him could touch a pole in this town
Then he came across ol’ Marie Laveau
He said I’m gonna git me that sexy hoe
Then it’ll be oooooEEEE another man done gone.
Then Marie said Heeeey, come on over dear
If you like a NOLA Lola you’re gonna love it here
But Ray was coy he said I know this trick
First I gotta check you for a rainbow flag stick
Then Marie got mad and she started shaking
15Katrina ran backwards and the earth started quaking
A fog rolled in and it dropped 10 degrees
And that’s when ol’ Ray found himself on his knees
Sayin’ ooooEEEE another flag gone down.
I read a book about homosexuals that served in World War II. They had to conceal their sexuality. The worst thing that I recall happening was that two men were having it off in a life boat boat on a destyroyer and the skipper leaned over the bridge and screamed, “put the cover on, assholes.”
Two men were homosexuals in my unit in Vietnam. I asked one of them why he had not just told them the truth and skipped the whole thing. He told me had had to have a security clearance in his high paying job in the civie world revealing his sexual orientation would have destroyed his life. The other one was a cow puncher patriot from Oklahoma. Go figure.
16I wish I had one of those giant Homosexual! stamps. For real. I’d just use it to deface the whole entire South. Except maybe Florida. Houston wouldn’t need much either. But I’d plum cover up East Texas. I’d prolly get caught.
Once the radical right gets desensitized (or dies of old age) perhaps we can have our country back.
17I’m a Vet, I’m straight, my hobby is theater (back stage type), I generally got hit on by a man once a show. Only once did a single ‘no thank you, I’m straight’ not suffice, and the exception wouldn’t take no for an answer from anyone, they had to ask him to leave the group.
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