Bringing it to the small towns...the GAY AGENDA

On the Colbert Report on his segment "People Destroying America" a piece was shown on small town Vicco, Kentucky and their "gay agenda" mayor. Under their mayor, Johnny Cummings, Vicco has become the smallest town in the country to pass an ordinance forbidding discrimination based on, as Cumming says, sexual preference. Watch the clip HERE:

From colbertnewshub.com

First off, I need to say I loved the clip. It is funny, to the point, and shows something super important about small towns. This important fact? That all people from small towns aren't close minded hicks.

This has been a topic that INFURIATES me many times. I was born and raised in a small community in East Baton Rouge Parish and I get it. I get the stereotypes that are put on myself and my family. I get it. I get the fact that before I lost my accent people thought I was a close minded hick who probably slept with a distant cousin and knew nothing about "cosmopolitan" life. I get it. I get the fact that I had a roommate from "the city" who judged my father based on where he was from and refused to sit in the same room as him because she dubbed him a racist. I get it. And I was/am pissed.

Many times we look at discrimination and say, oh, those white people over there are bad. They think like this. If anything you put a barrier up saying "you are different and not like us and we won't accept you." In turn, people turn against you and say your ideas are wrong, but at the end of the day, people are a lot more complex than we give them credit for.

I come from a small town. I come form a Roman Catholic background and an Evangelical Christian background. Oh, and I'm gay. My community knows. My community accepts me. My small town community wants to come to my wedding and dance at it and came to a candle light ceremony in acceptance of same sex marriage. My small southern community was outraged at the Trayvon Martin case and the verdict. My small town religious southern community may have ignorant and backwards people, but so do the cities of "freedom" and "equality" that we look at in the country.

People are more complex than we give them credit for, and we need to remember that. It gives me hope for the future and possible laws that could be passed in my hometown. Who knows, maybe I'll be the lesbian mayor that helps with it?

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