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Pride Festival celebrates equality, fairness and erectile dysfunction

Smiles, rainbows and hundreds of people being proud of who they are — this is what Sunday afternoon looked like at Rotary Park.
Whether gay, bisexual, transgender or straight, anybody and everybody was welcome to attend the event to be supported or to give support to the LGBTQ community.

“I have been an out and proud lesbian for the past 10 years. I’m very excited that Ludington is having our second annual pride event. I think that it is very important for our community to have this kind of visibility for the youth in our community to know that we are here for them and celebrate just how far we have come and where we are going,” said Arielle Schnur, Emcee for the event.
Schnur said the event is not just about equality, but about what she believes is fair.  

“It’s about fairness. It’s about being human and connecting to each other. Love is this universal language, whether you are heterosexual, bisexual ,homosexual, transgender — what it means is that you love someone and that’s what we are really focused on,” she said. “It’s just about being fair.”
Schnur said having more people support the LGBTQ community is to connect human to human

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What is with these people. Do you think I care? , nope.  In my working career I have worked along side gay and lesbian people, also have supervised the same. I'm sure most people knew they had a different sexual orientation but no-one cared. Why do they have to broadcast it to the world? I don't know anyone that goes around saying I'm Heterosexual.  Maybe we should  have a rally to connect human to human   What do they gain by it?   Fair?   What's fair got to do with anything? 

According to TV 9&10, "Last year’s event was a small equality rally, but this year, it’s grown to have a number of vendors, performers and a huge crowd."

I don't have a big problem when a bunch of oddballs of any persuasion get together to have a little fun and camaraderie, but I must object to the article on "fairness".  This festival which lasted for five hours and used a significant part of Rotary Park for that time in the midst of tourist season never got city council approval for their event, their vendors and their performers, not even at the covert committee level.  

Guess what?  Back in 2016 my campaign committee wanted to have a public giveaway of hot dogs, sodas, etc. at the end of September at Stearns Park as part of my endeavor to educate the public on the two candidates running for office, I invited the incumbent Les Johnson to talk issues over a campfire with me.  I let the City council and manager know well ahead of time at two council meetings, I filled out applications for using the park, and they effectively killed it by sending it to the committee level for approval over a month after my request was made and it was too late to logistically carry it off easily, providing the city manager approved it (which was unlikely since LPD was conducting a sham investigation on Shay's behalf on this website because he got his knickers in a knot over two non-threatening posts made by Torchers).

You want fairness, take Pride Fest 3 through the morass and maze of city hall bureaucracy and be judged on the "Rotta Standard". 

I'm curious.

Curious how this was allowed without a permit in Rotary Park.

Can anyone use the park whenever they wish to have an event?

What if a group of Muslims from Dearborn want to celebrate the hero's who crashed into the World Trade Center buildings? Would that be kosher with the City Council and Rotarians?

How about an organization who wishes to bring back public lynching's? Would that be proper? Give the city council enough rope...

What if Muskegon Carferry wishes to have an event to prohibiting coal burning while sailing the Great Lakes? Would that be 'fair'?

How about the outfit that wants to prohibit religious symbols on public property? Would the city council approve this? Make a festival out of it.  Help them raise funds? 

I got news for you boys and girls of the city council. Looking to be fair is bullshit.  Life ain't fair.

So I suggest you get over stance of trying to be some kind of social justice warriors. Instead of doing the 'job' Shay appointed you to do, do the job the citizens want. Oh and piss on you John Shay for good measure.

Would a tar and feathering of John Shay and riding him out of town on a rail be a good use for a Rotary Park event? Will shinblind now be investigated by the city police for this comment? 

Enjoyable post, shinblind, but let me warn you that there is a very fair chance that your next interim city manager will be John Shay's primary bootlick, Police Chief Mark "Rainbow" Barnett, should he accept.  

His qualifications:  sitting at city council meetings for 15 years seeing Shay, Wilson, Tykoskis, and himself break every law on the books, occasionally taking the opportunity to shame citizens for asking for minimal accountability, and doing whatever foul deed that Boss Shay asks of him.  If Shay or Barnett takes you to task for asking about a tar-and-feather crafting event, we have your back here.

This local pride festival touting equality and fairness allows me to touch on another related subject which Campus Reform has recently dealt with.  The Supreme Court recently decided that a Colorado baker could refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding based on their sincerely held religious beliefs.  Such cases have recently went through the courts with various outcomes, this won't necessarily stop those from going through. 

Much outrage has filtered out from rainbow groups over the ruling.  But how would they rule if a white supremacist group went to a black baker and ordered a cake depicting the lynching of a black man on it?  Would the baker be forced to do his job and bake the cake as ordered?  They went on the street to show college students grappling with the concept of siding for the baker in such cases after expressing how poorly the Supreme Court ruling was.

Good post X. The hypocrisy of the left and gays is glaring. Not only the hypocrisy but the ignorance and stupidity in their reasoning is so glaringly clear. The silly people celebrating the "pride festival" in Ludington don't seem to understand they are also celebrating the destruction of the Constitution and the discriminating treatment of those trying to exercise their religious freedoms and First Amendment rights. 

    It was not just the baker , it was his personal business. As a business owner I have asked people to leave the premises .My business who I want to serve.   X , I like the lynching cake idea. LOL   I wonder if that baker would have baked that cake.

All I know is that if City Manager Shay came to my roadside firewood stand to buy a couple of bundles of wood, I would refuse to sell it to him unless he told me he wouldn't use it for a backyard barbecue (city officials burst out laughing, Shay blushes and smirks at Fire Chief Funk).  

For the last 10 years in the USA, it has simply staggered me how less than 3% of our population gets special treatment, favors from politicians, and coddling by the media. Makes me sick in every way. If you don't know what's in your underwear or what to do with it, stfu and leave the rest of us alone.

The West Shore Pride group LGBTQ which just concluded their Ludington Rotary Park festival will be having a summer picnic at Scottville Riverside on August 5. Starts at 2pm.


That is right at the tail end of the West Michigan Old Engine Club which ends August 5 at 2 pm.


I don't believe you need a permit to have a picnic so Scottville is off the hook on this.


Hope they don't get in each others way.

I do believe you need to reserve the pavilion at the Scottville Riverside park.  If they didn't, maybe you could reserve it and have a little get together and screw up their human to human fairness plan.

LMAO Stump, unique idea, it might just work too, lol.

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