[sanjuro]

Is this ghey?

Gay group organizes 'Pink Christmas' in Amsterdam

By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer

Monday, December 8, 2008

(12-08) 09:16 PST AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) --

A Dutch gay group said Monday it has planned a "Pink Christmas" festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys.

Other attractions in the 10-day festival include parties, an open-air market, gay-themed films, an ice skating rink and religious services on Dec. 25.

ProGay group chairman Frank van Dalen said Monday the event is intended to increase the choices for homosexual men and women during the Christmas holiday week.

"Right now, there's not much to do," he said.

The festival will also encourage people to think about homosexuality and religion, Van Dalen added.

Some Christian groups protested. The organization Christians for Truth said the idea "mocks the core concepts of Evangelism."

"By putting Joseph and Mary down as homosexuals, a cracked human fantasy is being tacked on to history from the Bible," the organization said in a statement urging the city and organizers to cancel the event.

The manger, with actors playing the parts of Joseph and Mary, goes on display Dec. 21.

Van Dalen said it was not intended to be offensive, but was meant as a "wink" at heterosexual assumptions.

"Christmas is about more than religion, it's also about love and families, not to mention shopping," he said. "Two men or two women can form a family too these days, even one with a child."

Gay marriage was legalized in the Netherlands in 2001, and adoption rules are the same here for gay or straight couples.

Van Dalen said the Pink Christmas initiative was also intended to help promote Amsterdam as a gay capital after a decline in its reputation in recent years.

A study last month found that homophobia is an ingrained problem in the city despite the Dutch reputation for tolerance, and physical attacks on gay men are a weekly affair.

 

[manimal]

Is this ghey?

 

[Samirol]

The College Republicans over at University of Texas showed their support for same-sex couples by having their nativity scene have two Josephs.

Yes, that is Karl Marx holding a child porn book.

 

[Serial Midget]

I always do Christmas in assless black leather chaps - pink is too girlie.

 

[ohio]

a cracked human fantasy is being tacked on to history from the Bible

While I think the scene is a bit ridiculous, it is certainly less ironic than the resulting protest.

 

[jimmydean]

I thought Pink was for breast cancer?

<edit> Or at least the research.

 

[sanjuro]

The College Republicans over at University of Texas showed their support for same-sex couples by having their nativity scene have two Josephs.

Yes, that is Karl Marx holding a child porn book.

I love it. That kind of mentality, which makes ridiculous personal attacks instead of offering solutions which benefit the many, will continue to be downfall of Republicans.

 

[Defenestrated]

college republicans are the worst people

 

[binary visions]

The College Republicans over at University of Texas showed their support for same-sex couples by having their nativity scene have two Josephs.

At least that's more believable than Mary's story.

"No really, it was a virgin birth."

 

[$tinkle]

At least that's more believable than Mary's story.

"No really, it was a virgin birth."

are you familiar w/ the appropriately named term 'parthenogenesis'?

 

[ohio]

At least that's more believable than Mary's story.

"No really, it was a virgin birth."

I worked with a waitress who swore up-and-down (heh) that her baby was a virgin birth. Nothing to hide at that point as the father had insta-dumped her, and she was engaging in the premarital coitus at that stage. She said it was just some messy, only-on-the-outside fun...


Keep an eye on that baby. He's the next Jesus (should be about 12 or so and performing miracles somewhere near Columbus, OH...)

 

[binary visions]

I don't think playing "just the tip" counts as virginal...

 

[ohio]

I don't think playing "just the tip" counts as virginal...

intact hymen passes all the tests that people care about.

 

[binary visions]

intact hymen passes all the tests that people care about.

Not me. If I unzip and she doesn't scream thinking it's some kind of third arm, then she's been around the block too much for my tastes.

 

[ohio]

thinking it's some kind of third arm

You really should have those opposable digits removed from the end...

 

[$tinkle]

Not me. If I unzip and she doesn't scream thinking it's some kind of third arm, then she's been around the block too much for my tastes.

you have to unzip? i just cough & it unfurls like a flat-assed chinese diver in perfect form.

 

[sanjuro]

You really should have those opposable digits removed from the end...

busted!!!!

 

[binary visions]

You really should have those opposable digits removed from the end...

But then what would I scratch my ass with?













Or your ass with, for that matter?

 

[kidwoo]

That's fingerwang!

 

[$tinkle]

At least that's more believable than Mary's story.

"No really, it was a virgin birth."

BV <3 W

and so does babs