This is wrong and looks like an act to stiffle freedom of speech. What can be done?!? I am outraged.

I’m from Sweden so I heard on the news about those maniacs, I feel a little bit sorry for the children that have been raised in the sect, four of Phelps children have been ostrasized because they left his sect. Every person should have a right to have contact with his parents and family.

I agree about the importance in preserving the freedom and that’s an important discussion here in Sweden to, we are a peaceful country (except the factory Bofors that build and sell weapons despite our no war policy, the fact that Sweden sold weapons to nazi-germany and the allied forces during WW2 and that the government allowed Nazi-soldiers to pass through our country so they could attack Norway. Oh I almost forgot I heard a while ago that the government deported some Baltic refugees to Sovjet). Our government might have been a bunch of hypocrites and might be today too and they are to afraid to affend the public to say anything negative about anything or anyone but it’s important to avoid judging a people because of their countrys laws or government.

The thing is that we protect our individuality so if you like, accept or dislike homosexual people is a very personal question and many persons prefer to keep their opinion for themselves. The thing about the preacher (Åke Green) who got prosecuted due to his opinion about homosexual persons was not that he expressed his opinion, it was the way he expressed his opinion.

In Uppsala there was a racebiologicalinstitute that began to messure peoples bodies and classifie them, neither our government, the parliament or the people in Sweden wants to make difference between people therefore we try to avoid to that people express their opinion in a to extreme way, like calling homosexual persons a cancertumour on the society. The nazists thought that jews were a danger to and a tumour on the society.

I hope that Phelps would reconsider his opinions and read the Bible and read the whole Bible instead of reading one sentence, I’m an agnostic but I have problably read more of the Bible than that preacher.

—————————————————————————A MESSAGE FROM SWEDEN TO WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH

We do not hate you! It doesn’t matter what you believe in and protest for we still do not hate you. We feel sorry for your children that you ostracized from your family and ask you one thing, if you don’t want to reconsider your beliefs then at least change your way to express them. There’s no sense in offending people and embracing hate and contempt.

You can’t force people to believe, faith comes from the heart not from a indoctrinated brain.

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils

I don’t think it makes you a doormat, or the rest of the world full of jerks. It just means you learn from others’ poor social mistakes. Which is hella good in my book.

I bet the mother’s wishing she never got involved right now lol.

That’s awesome, LOL!

How do you think the mom found out about the pictures though? And why nuke the poor kid with threats? If you’re stupid enough that you can’t let your daughter fight her own fights, what’s the point of just leveling threats at him?

I love your new theme, by the way.

Don’t you love the fall?

My original plan was to save up for a week-long trip to Germany. But the more I think about it, it could really contribute to a multitude of big ideas (better car, better digs, my own business).

So not only am I saving up for the future, I’m giving myself more options on what to do once I get there.

In your case, I’d say it’s a zero-stress way of making those “long-term” plans you feel like you’re missing.

Good luck!

We might have run into each other at some point. Or maybe not.

Anyway, it’s nice to have another gay Nashville blog to read.

Come check mine out sometime!

I just wanted to say that I am a fan of your blog. I ran across your site while searching for a wisdom quote for a birthday card I’m making. I’m a fan of blogs that talk about creative ideas and the potential to achieve your personal and professional best. Yours is insightful and clear, and the wisdom you provide is inspirational. Thank you!

Regards,
Ashley

So right on, good sir.

The cashiers are instructed to leave the hangers on the clothes as they are being purchased so that the customer can dispose of them however they see fit. When a customer specifically asks to have the hangers removed, we do so, and put them in a bin under our counters. At the end of the night we box/bag them up and put them in storage (with a constant influx of new employees, perhaps they don’t realize we do this). We DO reuse as many of them as we can (we are constantly putting merchandise on clearance and need the hangers to hang the items in our clearance section). What we don’t use, which isn’t that many, does go in the trash…it’s true…and something that I don’t particularly agree with, but we don’t have a recycling bin suitable for something that is both plastic and metal which are two items that need to be separated when recycling. Montgomery County does have certain recycling rules and procedures which we do abide by and we have even set up small recycling bins in our break room for soda cans, bottles and paper products. While the “hanger issue” continues to be just that…an issue…we are trying our best (at the Rockville store) to be environmentally conscientious.

Please do notify Gap Inc about the disposal of these hangers, perhaps they’ll switch to all to plastic hangers, which would be much easier to recycle!