{"id":11499,"date":"2014-12-10T20:14:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T01:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2014-12-10T20:14:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T01:14:03","slug":"god-hates-drags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/10\/god-hates-drags\/","title":{"rendered":"God Hates Drags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be more specific, Drag Queen Shows. So says a few letter writers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theodac.com\/upcoming-events\" target=\"_blank\">So there&#8217;s a female impersonator show coming to the Olde Dominion Agricultural Complex on Friday night<\/a>. Whoopee. Not my cup of tea, but more power to them. Free enterprise. Business. That kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! Others have different opinions! Let&#8217;s take a look at a Star-Tribune Letter to the Editor&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/opinion\/article_0440542a-7b04-11e4-88ad-1b31f546b9fb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christians shouldn\u2019t patronize event <\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Well, all righty then. I love the way he described the event without actually describing the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of the week of Dec. 7, a very significant entertainment event is planned for the center two miles north of the town of Chatham on Route 29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It takes the skills of a White House Press Secretary to do that, folks. But wait, there&#8217;s more. There&#8217;s another Letter to the Editor in the Chatham Star Tribune. Get ready, the Crazy Train is getting ready to derail.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/opinion\/article_9cbbeaae-807a-11e4-9b38-f78019b38359.html\" target=\"_blank\">You can\u2019t have it both ways<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>This one has more WRONGs than a Leonard Harville &#8220;report&#8221;. Let&#8217;s start off with&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why the county would allow this kind of entertainment (If that\u2019s what you call it.) to be shown is beyond me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be because the county has no damned authority nor business regulating a perfectly legal entertainment event. If they tried it, they&#8217;d get their ass sued off.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not too long ago the supervisors had a store close down for selling material that was described by them as pornographic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They had it closed down before they had to completely backtrack because they were about to get their ass sued off. See the comparison?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What about all the money that has been spent in the past to allow prayer at the supervisors\u2019 meeting? That is money well spent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No. It&#8217;s not money well spent. It&#8217;s money (and time) that could have been well spent solving REAL PROBLEMS! You know like getting a real economic development office back after that Board of Dysfunctional Supervisors (Jessie Barksdale &amp; Brenda Bowman not included in that) crippled the county by getting rid of Ken Bowman just to get even with Brenda Bowman. But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see a 2 hour show of female impersonators, have at it. Pittsylvania County already tried to invoke Godliness by legislating morality and it blew up in their face. This show will go on, and deservedly so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be more specific, Drag Queen Shows. 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