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Church wants "Gay Boulevard" renamed

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What's in a name? A lot of your church sits on Gay Boulevard.

That's the case for Second Baptist Church in San Antonio.

Officials there want the name changed.

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{"commentId":2402115,"authorDomain":"josh-of-arc"}

Because, you know, seeing the word "gay" will make you a Sodomite... and not a happy one either.

Siiiiigh.... The religious right: America's version of the Taliban.

- J

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Reply#1 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:57 PM EDT
{"commentId":2402525,"authorDomain":"Prilj"}
Because, you know, seeing the word "gay" will make you a Sodomite... and not a happy one either.

:) Nicely put. Also, if that is true then seeing this:

What's in a name? A lot of your church sits on Gay Boulevard.

will make us all bad at grammar and proper sentence structure. :)

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#1.1 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 2:33 PM EDT
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How about "Bigot Boulevard"? At least it has nice alliteration.

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#1.2 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 2:56 PM EDT
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The thing that strikes me as odd is that nobody has a beef with the cross street "You Got A Purdy Mouth Boy Avenue"

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#1.3 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 4:09 PM EDT
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I vote Bigot Boulevard along with douglasq

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Reply#2 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 10:20 PM EDT
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