Downey City Council: Reject PRIDE Flag, Celebrate the Community as a Whole

Dear Downey City Council:

My name is Arthur Schaper, and I am the Organization
Director for MassResistance.

For the last three months—and ongoing—our activists and
their contacts and supporters in the city of Downey have been contacting you to
reject all of this LGBT promotionalism.

It is sickening and disgusting that the city council insists
on pandering to another so-called minority, aka a sexual minority. The latest attempt, a discussion about flying the PRIDE Flag at city hall, is deeply offensive.

According to common law, natural law, and even proper
constitutional law, there is no such thing as a “sexual minority.” Just because
there is a smaller group of people who engage in certain behaviors, that does
not mean that those individuals constitute another “minority.” I must remind
this council that there are no ex-blacks, or ex-Cubans, but there are ex-gays
and former transgenders. Their very existence proves that the whole LGBT
movement is based on a lie, i.e. that people are “born that way,” and therefore
that group should receive special celebrations and treatment.

Furthermore, I must remind the city council that the whole
PRIDE month hagiography is based on a lie. The Stonewall Riots in 1969 had
nothing to do with New York City police officers harassing peace-loving
homosexuals and transgenders trying to enjoy a drink in a seedy bar. The Stonewall
Inn was a notorious mob bar, and that bar was not paying their liquor license
fees. For that reason, the bar endured one raid after another because of their
failure to comply with New York City’s municipal codes.

So let’s dispense with the politically correctness nonsense
that PRIDE Month or LGBT Month is somehow worthy of celebration.

Furthermore, it is indeed quite ironic that LGBT activists
like Councilman Trujillo want to flaunt their gayness and have a picnic, a resolution,
and a flag ceremony to celebrate their perversion, yet numerous residents have
informed me that when he was running for city council last year, he never once
brought up his sexual preferences. Now, after getting elected, he wants the
whole world to know about his sexual conduct. This more or less holds true for
Councilwoman Alvarez, as well.

This whole LGBT promotionalism is just so despicable. It is
wrong for politicians to push their narrow agenda onto a city, when they had
campaigned for office by pledging to deal with local bread-and-butter issues
like street repair, public safety, and security for the business environment in
the city.

Homosexuality and transgenderism should not be promoted in
any city. Just because a number of government entities have caved to this
agenda does not mean that Downey should do the same. Downey residents called on
the school board to reject the sexually explicit, pro-LGBT sex-ed curriculum “Teen
Talk.” Residents are now speaking out against the further promotion of LGBT
themes and ideologies in city hall, as well.

The city must not promote behaviors, identities, and
ideologies that are harmful to the individual and to the community as a whole.
Homosexual conduct leads to an average decline of 20% in the lifespan of individuals.
Transgenders struggle with a staggering 41% suicide rate, and in even the most
LGBT affirming countries. There is a growing opposition to LGBT promotion and domination
in the public square, as witnessed in a recent USA Today poll (Click
here)

Last of all, the city needs to stop promoting narrow special
interests and distinct segments of the city population at taxpayers’ expense,
and at the expense of constitutional unity. For example, the Greek-American community
hosts their annual celebrations on their own dime. Why do LGBT activists think that
they have a right to city funds to promote their destructive behaviors in the
community? As a reminder, people are born with a certain ancestry or ethnicity—but
they are not born gay or born in the wrong body.

The Downey City Council should demonstrate its true commitment
to unity and civic harmony and reject the hoisting of a PRIDE Flag or any other
narrowly tailored banner. The only banners which should fly over city hall are the
American Flag, the California Flag, and the POW “You Are Not Forgotten” Flag.

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper

Organization Director

MassResistance

To all readers and visitors, please contact the Downey City Council and urge them to reject flying the PRIDE Flag at Downey City Hall.

Here is their contact information:

Claudia
Frometa

(562) 904-7274

cfrometa@downeyca.org

Blanca
Pacheco

(562) 904-7274

bpacheco@downeyca.org