Gay In Augusta

Celebrating Gay Pride in the CSRA

I stumbled upon this little gem tonight in the Aiken Standard (link):

This is a TalkBack against the Savannah River Site. Y’all won’t print it, but right as you go into Aiken barricade, there is a big sign Come Celebrate National Gay Pride Day with Us. Is the Savannah River Site taking taxpayers’ money and paying for a gay pride celebration? Gives you a serious case of road rage to go in the barricade to work and this sign glaring you in the face. I challenge you to take a picture of this and put it in the a paper and run a survey and ask the employees that have helped to build this country’s security and defense system about it being a slap in their face. Challenge you, Aiken Standard. We’ll see if you print it.

Help me answer this question…what exactly is a slap in the face? It appears to me to be an example of freedom – in speech and expression. Wasn’t our country’s defense system created to defend this very freedom? Or perhaps our defense system only exists to protect this one dear reader’s freedom of speech and everyone else should just shut up. Yep. I think that’s it.

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