Indiana Approves First-Ever Gay License Plate
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Homosexual activists are celebrating Indiana becoming the first state in the nation to approve a pro-homosexual specialty automotive license plate.
The license plate advertises and helps fund a homosexual, bi-sexual, transgender teen recruitment and support center called the Indy Youth Group. $25 of every plate sold goes to the Indy Youth Group.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles approved the specialty plate after previously expressing concerns about the organization's statewide service. Last year, the ACLU of Indiana sued the BMV over the rejection, but they lost their lawsuit.
This is why news of the BMV approval of the controversial plate surprised many.
Micah Clark, Executive Director of the American Family Association of Indiana noted that other plate interests rejected by the BMV have often taken their case to the legislature. Such was the case with Indiana's National Motto "In God We Trust Plate" license plate which now appears on more then 2 million Hoosier automobiles. For some reason the homosexual group went back to the agency again and received approval from the BMV. It is doubtful that the legislature would have approved a plate for a controversial group like the Indy Youth Group.
"You have to question what the BMV was thinking when they approved a license plate for a group which recruits teens into the homosexual lifestyle. Since health risks do not seem to matter, what is to prevent a cigar club from now getting a license plate from the BMV?"
"State agencies should be neutral in the politically charged culture war especially the promotion of homosexuality among minors. It is very disappointing that Indiana is the first state in the nation to have a license plate celebrating youth involved in homosexual behaviors," said Clark.
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It's amazing the obsession with homosexuality and gays that these anti-gay organization have. It's always weird to have anti-gay people talk about gay sex, in the exacting detail. They seem to get a bit excited when they do it.
Anyway, since the state of Indiana has pro-god license plates, there is no reason to deny gay organizations such free speech rights. The pro-theocratic Indiana plates will still easily outnumber the pro-gay plates by a wide margin. The fact is groups such as Indy Youth Group aren't "recruiting" gays. Gays already exist. They are picked on, bullied and kicked out of homes, and these actions are rationalized because of the supposed "sin" of being gay. Beliefs promoted by anti-gay fanatics on the religious rightwing.
How many young gays must suffer because of the religious beliefs of anti-gay zealots? How long before we must call the anti-gay movement what it is, the temper tantrum of those who are often repressing their own sexual urges? These are people in fear. Their side is losing and they are in denial. Losing, as bigotry always does in the end.
Jerome McCollom
Ohhh, please. Giving help and support to the children so many "Christians" have abandoned and mistreated isn't a "health risk." The abandonment and abuse is what's the health risk, especially in gay youth. Go look at the studies if you actually care about children more than your political scapegoating. Gays with supportive parents are hugely less likely to have anything from STDs to drug abuse to work troubles / homelessness when compared to those from the broken, unsupportive families that your ironically named American Family Association pushes for. And guess what ... it doesn't affect the percentage of homosexuals!! ("promoting" or "discouraging" homosexuality isn't much possible in any real sense, all your doing is accepting or shunning homosexuals. Helping or harming people, couples, families). It's the groups like the Indy Youth Group that provide the critical support and help so many failed parents have refused to give. There couldn't be a better cause.