LGBT lobby pulls out big guns to force ‘Pride Parade’ on small town USA
LGBT forces have pulled out the heavy artillery to force a small Mississippi town to change its mind about denying a permit for a ‘gay pride’ parade. Two Mississippi State University students, Bailey McDaniel and Emily Turner, filed a federal lawsuit last week against the town, asking a judge to “overrule the city and immediately grant a parade permit to Starkville Pride,” according to an AP report . “The city banned plaintiffs from speaking in a public forum solely because it disagreed with the viewpoint and content of their speech,” alleges the lawsuit. “That hostility to their message was inextricably intertwined with hostility to their LGBT identity and pro-LGBT advocacy.” In other words, the strong language of the lawsuit is meant to intimidate this small town, which is clearly not ready to host a big-city type gay pride parade, by claiming the sole source of the permit denial was ‘hostility.’ The legal drama pits New York attorney Roberta Kaplan against Starkv