<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">People attended last night's session to voice their opinion, both in favor AND against this ordinance.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">To deny them such an opportunity is simply WRONG!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I am extremely pleased that the ordinance was adopted with a unanimous vote by the city council. But, in the words of </span><span style="text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Claude Adrien Helvetius . . .</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What is to stop the city council from denying future public discussions after having established this precedent.</span></div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font><div> </div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:46 AM, "Henry D. \"Hank\" Johnston" <<a href="mailto:hearseboy85@gmail.com">hearseboy85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Wow, there is just no making anyone happy on this one is there?<br><br></div>The council voted 6-0 in favor of this ordinance (and if you ask the mayor it was all my fault, which it wasn't). It was going to pass that way with our without a parade of speeches that would be no more than political posturing from both sides. I can tell you exactly how this would have gone down had there been testimony - there would have been a ton in favor, Judd Wilson and Gresham Bouma would have preached about the sin of homosexuality - and the council would have passed it anyway at 1am.<br>
<br>I applaud the council for making the statement that this was an important ordinance - a "no brainer" if you will, and it wasn't necessary to discuss it further. After all, we've been discussing it for MONTHS in commissions and committees. So why drag it out further? <br>
<br></div><div>Go, Dan, Go!<br></div><div><br></div><div>All my best,<br></div><div>Henry<br></div></div>
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