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Mitchell County Gay Straight Alliance interviews protestors at its first meeting (video)
Mitchell County Gay Straight Alliance learned ahead of time that there would be protestors to its first public meeting — which was held at the County Library in downtown Bakersville. A supporter of the group produced this video interview of the protestors, as well as the meeting organizers. It's advocacy journalism, but it's respectful.

Video by lifeinMitchellCounty

For more on the meeting and the group, see Mitchell County Gay Straight Alliance encounters protestors at its first meeting (UPDATED)
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So the good minister does believe in the gays “forcing” their lifestyle ... but I guarantee he thinks that christianity is the only religion.

LOKEL

Nov 17, 2011
at 02:56 PM


I was there. Glad I was in the GSA meeting with the great unwashed instead of on the street with the intellectually challenged..

Mary vogel

Nov 17, 2011
at 04:47 PM


please be careful, GSA. These protestors seem extremely ignorant as well as unintelligent. And stupid people, when they cannot comprehend things, deal with that through violence.

helenrosey27

Nov 17, 2011
at 08:51 PM


Helen….you make a leap in your assumptions that the citizens of Bakersvill who came out to express concern with the GSA agena are stupid or ignorant. When people have a different viewpoint or core belief, it is abnormal for one to suggest that “violence” would be a “solution” to solve such differences.  This show ignorance, could be considered by professionals, as a defect in intelligence.  I am curious to know what your souce of information has been in forming you opinions.  Dr. Rosy

rosy hyde

Nov 18, 2011
at 01:09 AM


Here’s a working link to the video from the night of our first meeting. There have been some suggestions that this video was produced by the Mitchell County Gay Straight Alliance. It was made independently by one of our supporters but is not an official video of our group.

http://youtu.be/YfUf56lTcKI

(Not sure how to make this an active hyperlink. It may be necessary to copy and paste the address into the browser address bar.)

Mitchell County Gay Straight Alliance

Nov 19, 2011
at 07:42 AM


Seeing that the original embedded video had since been marked “private” (and made publicly inaccessible), I removed it and replaced it with the video you provided. It appears that this new link is to virtually the same video. Thanks.

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Jeff Fobes

Nov 19, 2011
at 09:10 AM


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