Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
If you see Deplorable Pride's Brian Talbert and his peevish band of spite-mongering Trump-apers at tomorrow's Charlotte Pride event (he has been making the rounds of news shows tonight, whining about being excluded for leading a phone-booth sized gay Trump club that drives forty miles over from Albemarle to pretend they are from here), ask him why he is so keen to force a group made up of people he hates and denigrates to accept him in the name of inclusion.
Talbert, see, is annoyed as all get-out that Charlotte Pride- a private organization- exercised its right to exclude him and his decimated group- he purged its membership, ousting the co-founder, in July- for wanting to use the parade to espouse their delusional view that Donald Trump is so gay-friendly, why, with just a nudge, he'd run off with Mike Pence.
We know Charlotte Pride is on firm legal ground because the US Supreme Court said so, 22 years ago:
Hurley v. Irish American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, 515 U.S. 557 (1995), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding free speech rights, specifically the rights of groups to determine what message their activities convey to the public. The Court ruled that private organizations, even if they were planning on and had permits for a public demonstration, were permitted to exclude groups if those groups presented a message contrary to the one the organizing group wanted to convey.
Addressing the specific issues of the case, the Court found that private citizens organizing a public demonstration may not be compelled by the state to include groups who impart a message the organizers do not want to be presented by their demonstration, even if the intent of the state was to prevent discrimination.North Carolina- thanks for Republican-written HB2 and its fake repeal successor- excludes LGBT groups from any anti-discrimination law protection, state or local, so there is no legal basis at all for challenging Charlotte Pride's decision.
The Supremes were unanimous in Hurley- even Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and Rehnquist, Republicans all.
That's why Talbert abandoned his $100,000 Gofundme.com legal defense fund campaign and just pocketed the $7730 he raised.
Talbert boiled his unconstitutional demand for inclusion to his hometown paper, The Stanly News & Press, this week:
As part of their response to being denied the right to enter a float in the parade because of their political affiliation, a group of gay and straight President Trump supporters will take a stand from outside the parade to show that the president has strong support from the LGBT community and that the Republican party under Trump is much more inclusive and diverse than in the past, organizers said in a press release.
The groups are taking precautions to ensure that the event remains peaceful, respectful and positive, while offering an opportunity for everyone to celebrate patriotic pride, organizers said.
“The gay community of Charlotte missed a great opportunity to set the standard for true equality and inclusion for the nation,” said Brian Talbert, an Albemarle resident and founder of Deplorable Pride.
“Instead they have decided to focus on the differences within our community and exclude those who have different political ideas,” Talbert added. “It’s ironic that a group with a rich history of celebrating our differences and diversity now shuns people who have different and diverse thoughts. The only benefit here is that they have set the bar so low that there is nowhere to go but up.”The only thing ironic is that Talbert is so thick he sees nothing odd about demanding acceptance by people he himself despises.
Brian Talbert even hates other gay Republicans. They don't meet his standards.
You can imagine what he thinks of women and minorities.
His response to Facebook comments is to insult the commenters a la his idol, the *resident.
The ones he really fears, he blocks from comment, then comes to their pages to insult them with slurs whose juvenility is only challenged by their semi-literacy.
But let his own words make the case for why his cause is the cause of inclusivess:
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