You’ve latched onto some pictures of the rowdy, raunchy goings on on the fringe of an event and decided that that’s what it’s all about. I’ve been to a few Prides and I know that it’s about a lot more. Those kids are going to grow up to be better people than the ones who are constantly told to fear and hate anyone who’s a little bit different to their uptight parents.

You are a willfully ignorant person. Notice how you conveniently ignore the above link that shows children dressed up in S&M garb?

So the simulated sex acts don’t really happen because you have to go looking for them! Ergo, the children have nothing to be concerned about. This is truly laughable, and nothing more than a handy bit of sophistry.

You find what you go looking for. You want there to be naked men in S&M gear simulating sex, so someone has handily compiled pictures to satisfy you.

People who take their children to Pride want to meet the kids’ gay uncle, aunt or family friend and see them enjoying being themselves.

I want to see my friends (mostly bisexual, actually) in the Parade and maybe shop at the stalls in the Village.

Greg Scott

Intolerant? No, I’d say you’re being bigoted. But only because I’m being polite. On the balance of evidence it would be many times more likely that a child had been “brutally and repeatedly sexually abused” if they were dressed as a choirboy.

There is something wrong with any group of people who want to sexualize children. It is one of the main reason’s for Prop 8 in California – While California gives them all of the civil rights of marriage.

Look at what The American Psychological Association says about sexualization of children http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexualization and tell me that Home Depot is doing this because they care about children.

Matthew 18 6-9

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

“Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

The gay pride events often feature nude men simulating sex acts; and, if not nude, dressed in S&M costumes with obvious sexual overtones.

This is not an event for children.

Apparently there’s a small group that always protests the Pride parade going through town. Now they’re the sort of people I wouldn’t want children to be exposed to.