mind your own damned business
That simple sentence should have been an Eleventh Amendment of the Bill of Rights. I had thought that the first ten Amendments had spelled that out quite clearly, but apparently it hasn’t:
Local resident, Keith Klassen says the flag is a slap in the face to the conservative community of Meade. “To me it’s just like running up a Nazi flag in a Jewish neighborhood. I can’t walk into that establishment with that flag flying because to me that’s saying that I support what the flag stands for and I don’t,” says Klassen.
Knight says it’s not meant to be a gay pride symbol but he doesn’t mind if that’s how it’s taken. “Any gay or lesbian people that do stop by will be treated with the best service I can give you,” says Knight.
But despite the local ridicule and loss of business, Knight is determined to stand his ground. “When this rainbow flag shreds, I will buy another one, and another one, and another one – just like my American flag, I’ll buy another one.”
Knight says his son gave him the flag after a trip to Dorothy’s house, a museum about the Wizard of Oz. The flag reminded the boy of “somewhere over the rainbow.”
I’m sick, sick, sick of this shit.
Who was it around here that was on the hobby horse of intentionalism and the meaning of words and symbols? Oh yeah — that was me. Sometimes a picture of an ice cream cone is just a picture of an ice cream cone, sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon, and sometimes a rainbow flag is just a rainbow flag.
In fact, I am more inclined to come down hard on those who would complain about this because in addition to the situations in those other two cases — in which symbols were displayed on items produced well within legal parameters and marketed to willing customers — the symbol was displayed on privately-owned property.
As for the clown comparing the rainbow to the Nazi standard, I’d imagine there are a lot of people of a certain age that, if they were still physically able, would punch this guy in the face. What’s a few million dead or starving Jews when there are GAY people running around! (Never mind that they’re not “running around” at this establishment.)
[inherited from: Dr. Paul.]
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