Photo: Cris Ritchie/Hazard Herald
Debating the idea of a reality TV show in Vicco last night.
Last month little 300-person Vicco, Kentucky, became the smallest town in America to pass an ordinance banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The Vicco town council passed the "fairness" measure a short while after voters elected Johnny Cummings, an openly gay resident, as mayor.
For little Vicco, could fame be far behind? Not very. As the local Hazard Herald reports, "Vicco officials in negotiation for possible reality show." More from last night's town meeting:
With a crew from Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" filming from the audience Monday evening, the Vicco city council gave its blessing for negotiations to continue on a possible reality television series...
Five production companies have been in contact about the possibility of filming a reality series in Vicco. The leading candidate seems to be the ABC network, Ashley said, adding during Monday’s regular meeting of the city council that ABC is interested in an unscripted series that depicts everyday life in Vicco.
So there's the fame. Now for the backlash, also reported yesterday by WYMT-TV:
While many support the new law, a number of people who came to Monday's meeting say it does more harm than good.
Community members packed the small room where the Vicco City Council meets, voicing their concerns about the city's new fairness ordinance.
"These people are after special benefits, special privileges," said Truman Hurt, "and you can't do that and live in a free country."
The "Colbert Report" was there at last night's meeting. Lots to look forward to.
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When people wring their hands over bullying in schools, they wonder where it comes from. Well, here's part of it. We have an entire leading faction of a major party who thinks that desiring to be free from persecution constitutes 'special privileges'. The same thing is going on with health care where this crowd is insisting upon being able to use employer status to enforce their conception of morality. The poor persecutor can't let his freak flag fly because the law and activist judges tell him he can't victimize 'others' when his preacher tells him it is his duty to do so. They're going to force him to burn in Hell.
Exactly. Mr. Hurt has it backwards; wanting to be able to discriminate based upon opposition to "the Gay Agenda" is asking for "special privileges" in violation of "equal protection" requirements of the US Constitution.
People like Hurt seem to be 100% convinced that their Ideological Soundness/Theological Correctness automatically grants them special privileges.
"These people are after special benefits, special privileges," said Truman Hurt, "and you can't do that and live in a free country."
clearly. i mean asking for equality is asking for special privileges...in bizarro world...right?
But "those people" aren't the same as "us people", so they can't be treated the same, can they? Mr. Hurt would fit right in at a lynching, or a plantation (on the correct side of the whip, of course), or burning a Native American village.
Yeah, the words 'these people' tell you all you need to know where that guy is coming from (and it's a dark, damp place crawling with spiders).
I hereby rechristen the privileged whiner Truman Butt-Hurt.
I don't understand how Mr. Hart can say, "These people are after special benefits, special privileges, and you can't do that and live in a free country." and yet not even blink at giving the oil industry billions, billions I say, in subsidies and special privileges and think THAT's what makes a free country. Unbelievable!
I'm surprised it is the state of Kentucky. I hope they get their way.
The fact that this is a small town where most people were on a first name basis with the mayor before he was elected probably has a lot to do with the attitudes. If the same people were in a large town and never knew an openly gay person, I doubt that they would feel the same. It's amazing how living for a moment in another person's shoes can alter attitudes.
You may be right. All my gay friends are wonderful giving people. People who never give themselves the oppertunity to find that out have missed a great deal in life.
Bumper sticker for Hurts vehicle:
Equality, it does more harm than good.
Also, 'Fairness is so unfair!'
Kentucky has a history of Truman Hurts saying really stupid things and then having to eat their words in the face of backlash. Recall the episode of the church that prohibited the participation of couples of different races. Even the Baptist Convention came down on them hard. I would like to hear the follow up on this Truman person.
Exactly which "special" benefits do you think we'll get, O Wise and Wonderful Hick?
Oh, that's right...we're fairies and we can make these special benefits magically appear with a flick of the wrist. (Did I just say that?)
This is the most ridiculous talking point the opposition puts forward. The mere fact that an ordinance even has to be passed to make sure we are "all created equal" shows how far behind we really are in our social evolution.
A-fecking(and I mean literally "fecking" other)-men!
O Wise and wonderful hick, I like that and I'd get really upset if he had more than a year or two left. That backward 8th century crap is dying off, too slowly, but surely!!
Be fair back my gay brethren and Knobson, your snark is entirely fair!