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Have You Seen These New Las Vegas Ads Targeting Gay People — and Poking Fun at Straight Couples?

Jan. 21, 2013 8:04am Billy Hallowell

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the official destination marketing arm of Las Vegas and the surrounding area, has launched a new campaign aimed at targeting gays and lesbians. The associated ads, created by R&R Partnersand featuring attractive same-sex couples enjoying themselves in the city, poke fun at heterosexuals who are repeatedly depicted as frumpy and old school.

“Everyone’s welcome. Even straight people,” a caption reads to the top right or bottom left of each design. The ads depicts straight people as the odd minority, with their clothing and the items they carry causing them to stand out from the other individuals in each pictorial.

Let’s start with a more benign ad — one featuring a station wagon in the company of other, more beautiful cars. Based on the design, people are supposed to assume that the old-school vehicle belongs to a straight couple:

R&R Partners Creates Gay Focused Ad Campaign for LasVegas.com That Pokes Fun at Straight People

Photo Credit: R&R Partners/LasVegas.com

In a separate ad, a man and women can be seen poolside wearing some dated and — some might argue — silly clothing. Surrounding them are women who appear to be coupled up with one another. The disparity between the lesbian couples and the straight souple is striking. Here’s the ad:

R&R Partners Creates Gay Focused Ad Campaign for LasVegas.com That Pokes Fun at Straight People

Photo Credit: R&R Partners/LasVegas.com

The campaign is aimed at attracting gay tourists to the Las Vegas area. A link included on each ad touts a web site that can be found at VisitLasVegas.com/gaytravel. On that site, information about travel for the “LGBT” community is available.

“Vegas has always been one of the world’s top destinations for LGBT travelers and now it’s more fabulous than ever,” the text reads. “Imagine an entire city rolling out the purple carpet for a 24/7 celebration of the LGBT community.”

In another ad, the straight couple (on the left) is even more noticeable, as it appears that the men in the picture are laughing — potentially at the man and woman’s clothing and behavior:

R&R Partners Creates Gay Focused Ad Campaign for LasVegas.com That Pokes Fun at Straight People

Photo Credit: R&R Partners/LasVegas.com

This next ad requires a more discerning eye. While the man and woman appear to fit in a bit more readily, consider their utensils, cups and other elements that are on the table. The women in the ad have swanky glasses and alcohol on their tables, while it appears the straight couples — based on what’s set out in front of them — are eating at a diner:

R&R Partners Creates Gay Focused Ad Campaign for LasVegas.com That Pokes Fun at Straight People

Photo Credit: R&R Partners/LasVegas.com

And in this last one, aside from what appears to be a disposable camera, the straight couple seems relatively normal when compared to the men in the image:

R&R Partners Creates Gay Focused Ad Campaign for LasVegas.com That Pokes Fun at Straight People

Photo Credit: R&R Partners/LasVegas.com

What do you think about the ad campaign? Let us know in the comments section, below.

(H/T: BuzzFeed)

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lfoa
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:07am
Look hard and you’ll see Harry Reid in that 3rd pix….

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- Canyouhearus
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:54am
  Look hard and you will also see that these aren’t regular travel ads… These are from VisitLasVegas.com/gaytravel. Of course they will target THEIR folks and ridicule normal folks!!
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:55am
  A wicked and sinful generation will look for a sign….well “Here’s Your Sign” Jesus is coming soon for the church.
  
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- koyettsu
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:58am
  *scratches Vegas off as potential vacation spot* Well if people in Vegas look down at me for being normal aka straight I just won’t go there or spend money in their city. Simple as that, this advertisement is disgusting and will change my opinion about Vegas for years to come.
  
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- KingCanon
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:06am
  Oh yeah and a pool that best be 90% chlorine and 10% water.
  
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- kadster01
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:23am
  This is no surprise. A lot of gay people I’ve met turned out to be the rudest, most condescending and insulting people I’ve ever encountered. You see, they are inherently on the defensive because they perceive that they are always being threatened, implicitly or explicitly, so they attack those they believe are the threat. In this case, it’s heterosexuals, in general.
  
  It was at least 20 years ago that I met a woman at a bar. She said she wanted to go dancing and took me to what turned out to be a gay club. Every person there was unbelievably rude to me and saying things, audibly, like “What a dumbass…” “I’m lost! Where am I?!” Some very masculine woman (a “butch”) started hitting on my date. Then I went to the restroom and one of them stole my beer! Now, that was the last straw! :-)
  
  Seriously, if gay people expect to be accepted and respected, they’d best learn how to practice what they preach, even in the face of disrespect and nonacceptance. The Golden Rule.
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:56am
  Yeah, Harry’s over there hangin out with Barney’s Frank.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:01pm
  I just cancelled my trip to Vegas next month. I always go to the rock & Mineral show in February and have for the last 10 years but not no more.I always spend thousands on neat rocks and visit the shows. If they want all the Q_ueers there so be it. I’m sure they will loose more straight folks than they will in getting Q_ueers there. Never thought I would have to add Vegas to my no fly list. If I was there and saw same sex kissing I would puke all over the place.
  
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- gosutag
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:10pm
  It’s funny to see the idiocy and gullibility amongst you so called ‘normal’ folk. I don’t consider myself normal because I’m straight. I consider myself normal because I have a brain and I use it, unlike you ‘normal’ folk. When are one of you gonna prove me wrong and tell me you read the original bible in Ancient Greek or Ancient Hebrew? You people swear by your new, edited many times, version, but you barely understand it. You want to say that gays and homosexuals are destroying society when most of you can’t even understand your own faith? I would hire a homosexual who knows their bible over a straight who is just spewing things they heard back at me like a high school student. Good luck to those who know their bible and good riddance to those that are homophobes because some guy in a church told read an edited paragraph.
  
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- joey g
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:19pm
  haahahahahahhaha
  
  ass bandits…..hahahhahahahahahhahh
  
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- THERAPTURCOMES
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:23pm
  Lets see just how arrogant these people are as God pours out His wrath on this unbelieving world after the resurrection/rapture takes place http://youtu.be/ahEVxIzlxwo
  
  1 Cor 15:1-4 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
  
  3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
  
  You do not want to be left behind for the horrors of the 7 year tribulation where through Gods wrath 1/3 – 2/3 of this worlds population will be killed
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:33pm
  I remember an ad for a motorcycle run that goes from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas; the ride was called the “Saints to Sinners” tour…the motto was “Go bad or go back.”
  
  Vegas has been ‘sin city’ ever since, what, the 50′s?
  
  Is anybody really surprised at this?
  
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- Battle1925
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:35pm
  Jesus is going to come down and say “you relly think i’m gay wow I didn’t think God will make you that dumb”.
  
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- SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:38pm
  @ GOSUTAG….Very interesting comment! On the one hand you criticize a group regarding their level of knowledge about original Scripture which includes 3 languages (you only listed 2) apparently defending homosexuality. You also implied that you apparently know the Scriptures better than anyone else posting comments on this story. All the while calling people “idiots”, something Jesus directly warned against, and displaying a level or arrogance and pride thinly veiled as a concern for truth. My question is this: Do you have a better grasp of the ancient languages than you do of English? I sure hope so because your grammar was terrible. Thank you….
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:39pm
  So it’s cool to make fun of straight people… but don’t say anything about the rump wranglers, pillow biters, nibblers, pole smokers, bull dikes, **** divers or carpet munchers…. The left wants everything to be P C when it suits their agenda or is referenced to them.. well guess what??? I WILL NOT COMPLY..
  If what I say hurts someones delicate feelings… TOO DAMN BAD… Make a bridge and GET OVER IT!!!
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:43pm
  Welcome to America’s new degenerate future thanks to the Democrats (communists) and the “chosen people” controlled Juden Marxist Media. This is more and more becoming the norm.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:59pm
  And yet another LGBT advocate trouts out the same tired old lies about Leviticus.
  
  Meanwhile Homosexuals make up over 1/2 the AIDS cases & new HIV infections. Along the same lines they pray at Obama’s feet that he will start a Manhattan project to produce a magic pill to they can bareback with all their fellows without condoms.
  
  Homosexuals = people who believe in a magic pill so they don’t have to suffer the consequences of their actions.
  
  Homosexuals the magic pill people.
  
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- Jim S
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:13pm
  I like all the sex ads on The Blaze..and then mention the gay ad for LV…testosterone low ?…those young babes not happy with you ? The Blaze has a product for you :)….can gay men with low testosterone buy from the ads of the Blaze?…Oh, that’s ok? Don’t ask sexual orientation?..ahh..I see…and the difference ?…promoting sexual activity is Ok when The Blaze says it’s Ok…got it..
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:41pm
  imagine if all straight people stopped visiting Vegas. They would be crying considering the gay population of this country is only 2 or 3 percent. I don’t see why people go to that city of sin anyway when there are so many more beautiful places to visit in our country.
  
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- starview
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:44pm
  I had an ex police man tell me once, “don’t every tick off the “Bull” in a lesbian relationship, as they are explosive and WILL harm you.”
  
  Sadly they are VERY confused, but with the right kind of Psycho therapy can become whole again, but it takes a lot of time, and energy. Is much easier to do nothing, and justify your actions every second of every day, hense the defensive attitude.
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:45pm
  @Jim s
  The overwhelming majority of men like a nice babe with a nice a rack and great body…. NOT a hairy man @$$…. If that’s what you like, then have it there cheek spreader.. but I don’t want to hear any bitchin when you get the HIV…….
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:29pm
  Let’s be honest, folks. There are rude people and polite people on most “sides” of any issue and this is no different. I know homosexuals who are very polite. And normal people that are rude. That really can’t be used as an argument against that behavior.
  
  However, the Bible -does- condemn the acts of homosexuality (though it is just another sin like others; lying for example, and can be forgiven and repented of), and since it’s been proven true in so many ways, more ways than virtually anything else, we all, as human beings, should take that seriously. The reasons it is wrong aren’t about rudeness, although I suspect part of the reason people are pointing out experiences with rudeness is to shatter a myth that homosexuals are always polite, “cool”, etc. It’s wrong because it is against the natural order that God created, and against the way he designed us psychologically, so while we might not understand this as easily as for more obvious sins like lying, it hurts the self and others, if sometimes only in small ways. And God is Love and does not want us to be harmed. :)
  
  To the idea that we don’t know what the Bible means — that is not realistic at all. It was experts who made translations — and most are NOT translations of past translations as the myth goes but of the oldest manuscripts in the original languages. ESV for example is a highly reliable modern English translation. Atheists are the ignorant ones.
  
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- SickOfSociety
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:55pm
  @Joe_The_Patriot – You are ABSOLUTELY correct. It’s ok to poke fun at straights, but GOD FORBID you poke fun at the gay community. In the same way, it’s now ok to poke fun at WHITES, but don’t you DARE poke fun at ANY OTHER RACE or you’re a racist. What in the hell has this country come to?
  
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- LogCabinRepublican
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:05pm
  If it weren’t for “straight people” who would make all the “gay people”?
  
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- TRUMPETCALL
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:51pm
  –
  
  Barney….
  
  Frank….
  
  Barney Frank?
  
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- ArchaicSEAL
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:34pm
  Wait, what? This is only in Vegas? Nice try Nevada! We all know that this crap happens all over America. You are not special… you hear me? I said: You. Are. Not. Special.
  
  Hell, as a matter fact, South Beach alone has you completely beat!
  
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- CafeConservative
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:26pm
  “When are one of you gonna prove me wrong and tell me you read the original bible in Ancient Greek or Ancient Hebrew?”
  
  Who needs a Bible to know homosexuality is abnormal. Basic physiology tells you which parts go where but ignore the obvious and try and make this an argument about “ignorant religious folk.”
  
  You’re probably the type that thinks if someone has a surgery and takes hormones, they can magically change their gender despite retaining the chromosomes that define their actual gender.
  
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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:31pm
  What do you folks mean people don’t make fun of gay people? The media is filled with comical flamboyant gay characters, and has been for a long time (since the 60s at least). What the gay community objects to is when homosexuality is portrayed as a negative or a target for discrimination. That is one important difference.
  
  Here is the other important difference.
  Straight kids don’t commit suicide in high school because they have been ruthlessly teased about their sexual identity. Straight kids don’t hang themselves because their community doesn’t accept their sexual identity. If they did, then we can worry about complaining that people are making fun of straight people.
  
  You Beckbots just love to play the victim, but that’s just not how it is. Oh well. Beck will just keep feeding you this steady stream of fodder for your childish outrage.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Straight kids don’t commit suicide in high school because they have been ruthlessly teased about their sexual identity. Straight kids don’t hang themselves because their community doesn’t accept their sexual identity. If they did, then we can worry about complaining that people are making fun of straight people
  ***
  Actually last fall there was that one girl that did hang herself after being bullied. There was no report that she was gay.
  
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- Baerlin
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:31pm
  Publius – Straight kids commit suicide for a variety of reasons. Loss of a loved one, rejection, failure, bullying. Check the numbers at Suicide(dot)org. Let’s keep a perpsective here. Homosexuals make up 2-3 percent of the population. We’re being forced to accept a lifestyle that is contrary to nature and what we believe. If you choose to live this type of lifestyle, fine. Just live. This is not a civil rights issue. This is a choice.
  
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- 13a
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:32pm
  I happen to believe in both Evolution and the Bible and being gay is abnormal behavior from both point of views. I would actually word it differently – being gay is the natural man….
  
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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:45pm
  Baerlin,
  
  No doubt straight kids commit suicide “for a variety of reasons.” That’s not the point. The point it that they don’t commit suicide because they were bullied for being straight. If you really think that I was saying straight kids never commit suicide, then I would advise you to read more carefully in the future.
  
  “We’re being forced to accept a lifestyle”
  Really? Who is forcing you? If Glenn Beck’s “news” team hadn’t searched around for this ad campaign and then decided to post it on The Blaze specifically to enrage you, and if you hadn’t gone to The Blaze (I assume to be enraged by something), then chances are that you never ever would have encountered any of these ads.
  
  Who is forcing you to do anything? You are being “forced” to let other people live their lives in a free country? Poor baby. Poor poor baby.
  
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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:52pm
  13A,
  
  “I happen to believe in both Evolution and the Bible and being gay is abnormal behavior from both point of views.”
  
  Ha! I think you might want to study up on evolution very well, because it doesn’t seem like you have a good grasp on it. Evolution as a process does not make moral judgements and it does not define what is “normal,” particularly since one of its main drivers is mutation. Don’t try to use evolution as an excuse to condemn any non-procreative activity. That’s a complete misunderstanding of what science does in the first place.
  
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- Baerlin
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:41pm
  Publius – Groups like Act Up that run into churches and disrupt services. This constant talk of homosexual marriage. Those are the things that are being forced on us. Don’t poor baby me. I have not claimed any superior morality. All I ask is that you keep your immorality out of the public sphere. We are asked to accept you based on your sexual preferences. Why? That is not natural. I don’t ask you to accept me based on mine.
  
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- Kumo
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:33pm
  When I was a Medic serving with the US ARMY. We had a civilian gay nurse in our emergency room. Having to work with him would frustrate us Soldiers to no end because he always spoke to us in a condescending manner and treated us like we did not have the necessary skills to do our jobs correctly. So much so, that many of us filed complaints about his attitude through our NCO Support Channel and Chain of Command.
  
  My Wife has a lesbian co-worker whom she is good friends with. When our Daughter was born, she and her partner came to visit us at the hospital. My impression of her personality was that she was laid back and respectful. BTW she doesn’t like Obama or his policies and loves Chick-fil-A, imagine that!
  
  While these are just two examples, my experience is that these homosexuals are a fairly diverse group of people and have every right to co-exist with us in our country. Baron von Steuben was a rumored Homosexual, who was responsible for training Washington’s Continental Army. Without his knowledge and leadership, the War might have ended far differently than it did.
  
  Should we allow “Gay Marriage”? No. Marriage should be removed from the government, period. This would maintain the separation of Church and State. In it’s place we should have “Civil Unions” for all couples Hetero and ****. “Marriage” would remain just as it has always been, a holy union between man and woman under God.
  
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- glassaudioguy
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:45pm
  @Therapturecomes- Sorry, but the idea the church getting to escape the great tribulation is a fairly new (mis)interpretation dating back to about 1830. The church has historically taught we’d go through it like everyone else. I might grant you a pre-wrath rapture that is merely the last month or so when God’s wrath is poured out; prior to that it’s the devil doing the dirty work.
  
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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:06pm
  Baerlin,
  
  So, because of organizations like Act Up, which disrupted a mass in 1989 (24 years ago), you feel like you are being “forced”? You don’t force anyone to “accept” your sexual identity? Well, I don’t know what your sexual identity is, but if you’re a straight male, your identity is fully accepted in American culture. I’d say you were probably never bullied because of it, and there are/were no legal obstacles to you marrying the person you love. I bet you never had to “come out” to your family, or face the horrible prospect of being rejected by them because of being straight. So, I would say that your situation doesn’t offer any kind of useful comparison at all.
  
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- MMSands
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:12pm
  Sorry, but if your neighbor’s behavior and beliefs neither pick your pocket nor break you leg, they are none of your concern. I’m with Jefferson (and the rest of our Founders) on that point.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 1:34am
  To those claiming The Blaze is preaching here:
  
  Did you even bother to read the article? Seriously? It is factual and nothing more. Don’t get your panties in a bundle over facts. No judgement has been made. No lightning bolt has been prayed down from above. The ad campaign is creative. No bigs. I highly recommend cognitive behavioral therapy–AKA counseling–if you actual had your feelings hurt by a facts only news article. Geesh!
  
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- THERAPTURCOMES
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 1:38am
  GLASS
  
  Sorry but that is simply not true. Jesus Christ Himself taught it
  
  John 14:1-3 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
  
  Let me break it down for you.
  
  Christ goes to heaven/Fathers house to prepare a place for the church/bride. IN HEAVEN AT FATHER HOUSE
  
  He then comes for the bride/church and takes the bride/church to the place He has PREPARED AT HIS FATHERS HOUSE
  
  So the church/bride will be WHERE HE IS AT
  
  Competent Hebraic studies on the ancient marriage customs reveals that the church is the bride and Christ follows the ancient traditions of Hebrews. You know how long the bride/church stays in seclusion with the Bridegroom? 7 days. This equates to the 7 year tribulation
  
  This verse is also given by CHRIST to John
  
  Rev 3:10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
  
  There is not doubt if one studies with the Spirit and in honesty they will see the pre trib resurrection/rapture (1) http://youtu.be/k8nm5rMcozE (2) http://youtu.be/UwL3rKteOng (3) http://youtu.be/tDcTFfXkSFk
  
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- netmail
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 8:41am
  Vuck Fagus
  
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DTR
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:05am
Could you imagine if the roles were flipped and it said “Everybody’s welcome! Even GAY people!” Seriously, the double standards are freakin’ unbelievable.

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- thekuligs
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:44am
  This was what I was going to say.
  
  I hate this town. Dear God please have the Air Force move us away.
  
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- MilkmanDan
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:50pm
  So true.
  
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- LogCabinRepublican
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:21pm
  Everyone here are HATERS the ads are making a point. Think of living in a world where being straight wasn’t the norm because everyone was gay almost everyone who has posted here can’t see the point.
  
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:53am
Harry Reid = Las Vegas. Sodom.
Nancy Pelosi = San Francisco. Gomorrah.
Bathhouse Barry = Chicago. Babylon.

I see a pattern here…

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- china clipper
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:18am
  According to Romans, God has damned America.
  
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- RogueRequest
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:42pm
  Romans, who cares what a bunch of people in Italy think?
  
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- GetRight
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:06pm
  Rogue, I think s/he was talking about the book in the Bible called Romans! LOL And responding to your previous comment, the Old Testament is the law of Moses. As Christians we are not under the law. It was fulfilled when Jesus came. I cannot get over all the people who criticize Christians without doing the least bit of research. What you believe is up to you, that is fine, but please consider really studying the Bible and know what it is you criticize. It does not contradict. I am amazed all the time at the accuracy, the prophecies that have been fulfilled, etc. Your eternity should matter enough to you that you would take the time to give it a shot. What if you are wrong?
  
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RIGS
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:52am
SOME people will sell their souls for money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- kindling
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:56am
  or for a something that feels good for a moment.
  
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- bcshealy
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:12pm
  You’re right about that. Now we’ve got one less place to EVER step foot in again. Once was really enough, anyway, though.
  
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Disgusted_in_CT
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:52am
Sin city, never been there and never want to go.
I have better things to buy with my hard earned money, like a nice ar-15 before they get outlawed.

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- fractalman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:19am
  My sentiments exactly! I hereby pledge/vow/promise to never ever deposit one dime in the Las Vegas economy.
  
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  $fractalman$
- SuttonShimai
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:33am
  I lived in Las Vegas for a year and it was the most boring town I ever lived in. Nothing much to do unless you wanted to go to the Strip. And not everybody does.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:56am
  DISGUSTED_IN_CT, I arranged a flight to their airport once. Once there I immediately picked up my rental car and drove to Ft Irwin, CA. Slightly longer drive, but it beat the congested traffic driving back to LAX or the Ontario Airport. That was my last trip out to Irwin. I have no desire to return to either the Vegas or LA area.
  
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KingCanon
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:44am
The captions should boast of AIDS!
The menu should offer a side of AIDS!
The doormen should wear ribbons promoting AIDS!
The concierge should hand out “Quickest Path to Aids” pamphlets.

No wait… I’m not thinking clearly.

The government should pass a law stating that gay establishments promote
AIDS WARNINGS just as cigarettes promote CANCER warnings. Don’t you think?

Aids is alive and well on planet earth. These establishments are a threat to society!
WHERE’S THE EPA WHEN YOU REALLY NEED THEM? WHERE I ASK!
TAX GAYS WITH AN EXTENDED POLE TAX AND LET NOT ONE OF THEM FALL THROUGH THE CRACK!

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- Letthebulletsfly
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:33am
  “tax gays with an EXTENDED POLE TAX and let not one of them FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS”
  
  Funniest unintentional post of the day.
  
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- catty
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Kingcanon
  You can’t get it by playing blackjack.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:31pm
  catty
  
  How do you know how you get AIDS? I doubt you have the education.
  
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- KingCanon
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 6:45pm
  Black Jack you say?
  Man is that a loaded statement!
  That’s exactly how you dodo get it ole chap!
  
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TMOverbeck
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:32am
Hey, Vegas marketing folks… How about you work on getting gay marriage legalized in Nevada. Then maybe that ad campaign might not seem so laughable. :P

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- rose.777
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:35am
  end of days for sure >and I feel fine
  
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blanco5
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:22am
Vegas and kabul tie for the lowest on my list of “most want to vacation” places even BEFORE these ads.

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LawyersRock
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:21am
The hypocrisy displayed by most of you is astonishing. This article is categorized under the heading “faith,” yet much of what I read here involves wishing gay people would die of AIDS. Wow, is this what faith and morality look like in Glenn Beck World? Shame on you!

And by the way, I think the straight people in these ads are adorable.

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- KingCanon
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:32am
  You sound like a soldier in the direction of HELL!
  
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- TMOverbeck
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:36am
  I agree with the misguided categorizing. This really should go under “Business”. I don’t see anything in the article regarding faith, not even a mention of a drive-thru wedding chapel.
  
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- TheGrtDcptn
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:46am
  ‘yet much of what I read here involves wishing gay people would die of AIDS’
  
  Really…?!…There is ONE post that makes reference to aids…
  
  Take YOUR hypocrisy and shameful lies elsewhere…
  
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- KingCanon
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:23am
  Yes….. AIDS.
  Another Infected Deadly Sucker!
  
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- TheCalvinistPastor
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:35am
  when a person says “shame on you” [a common mantra often repeated] I have found they are usually projecting thier own guilt and shame opon the conscience of others. A common coping mechanism to deal with their own sin
  
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- KingCanon
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:40am
  Preach it brother! Just remember next time to use GOD’S opinion in your delivery!
  
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- Centurian
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:18am
  There is no hypocrisy here. Only the truth.
  
  Gays make up almost HALF of all newly reported cases of communicable diseases each year- while they are only 3 to 5 % of the country’s population.
  
  Homosexuality is a mental disorder and should be treated as such.
  
  This, to me, is what makes these ads so distasteful. Vegas is advertising mental illness…
  
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- Jadedfate
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:53pm
  Agree with you..these people are scary. They’re the reason I left the Republican party..couldn’t be associated with this kind of hate and outright stupidity.
  
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- Jadedfate
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:23pm
  @Kingcanon You sound like a soldier in the direction of ignorance and hate…which would also make you headed to hell. Pretty sure Jesus preached love, not the filth you’re spewing out.
  
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- LawyersRock
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:44pm
  Hmmm, I see the AIDS references go on…and no, I have no shame or guilt about who I am, so your psychotherapy is way off track. By the way, MY band actually was invited to march in the parade today, and did so proudly. Did yours?
  
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- hatchetjob
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:27pm
  LAWYERSROCK, Is the name of your band called, Fred Mertz Pants? I’m not interested otherwise.
  
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- LawyersRock
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:37pm
  Lesbian and Gay Band Association, the second largest band in the parade after the Naval Band. And you can do all the name-calling you want, but our cause is now right up there with Seneca Falls and Selma.
  
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- TheCalvinistPastor
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:15am
  I just find it odd when somebody finds their self-identity in thier sexuality. Think about it. How often do you see people having “Straight pride” parades? You just dont see it.Even if there was,
  I would never attend such a thing. Why?
  Beacuse who I am as a person is not defined by the objects of my sexual desire. Who I am is so much more then that. So again when I see somebody flaunt their sexual preference in front of others under the banner of “pride” it just comes across very strange. Out of all the things that makes up a person, why would soembody insist on labeling themselves so narrowly and essentially promote the object they have sex with?
  It comes across as self-centered, carnal, and narcassistic.
  
  I have a “gay” friend who does not flaunt his sexuality, but he advocates other things, He is apart of Habitat for Humanity. His identity is not found in his sexuality, but defined by a selfless lifestlye, and yes, he happens to be gay.
  
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KingCanon
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:11am
Just another step in the direction of HELL!

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- tnman65
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:52pm
  KINGCANON, preach on brother I’m listening.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:09am
I have an idea – why don’t we help Vegas along?

Post a link to this story on other blogs you frequent. Twit it. Face-plant it. Get the word out that Vegas wants to be the new playground of LGBT’s.

Yeehaa – I love rubbing faces in their own carap…

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:49am
  Vegas is now forever OFF my go to list…This is the absolute worst ad campaign a company or City could use…America is tired of having homosexuality shoved in it’s face…
  
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- Jadedfate
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:30pm
  The only reason this is being “rubbed in America’s face” is because it was reported about on this site. This ad campaign isn’t happening on general TV or any other medium..it’s being done in Gay publications..so…are you reading those on a regular basis to have this in your face?
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:10am
  No…Idiot…
  
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Melika
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:03am
So the LGBT community is full of sexist, bigoted people, what else is new? Why should I care? Most Americans haven’t a spine and if the choice is between bowing their heads and taking the verbal/visual abuse or visiting Sin City, they’ll always chose to visit simply because they want to “enjoy” themselves.

Vegas could announce a new law relegating straight white men to the seedy hotels and they would still flock to Sin City by the bus load, just to say they went. You can heap whatever abuse onto Americans so long as you call it tolerance of others and we’ll take it with a smile and a shoulder shrug.

We have no men, just little boys.

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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:56am
Let them laugh…

The last laugh is on them…

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- TheEndIsComing
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:16am
  God will not be mocked. By the time the gays find that out, it will be too late. I can’t imaging the lack of humility that holds a fist up to God and flaunts sin. I shiver myself thinking of how evil this behavior is.
  
  It’s time to turn off the evil TV. Stop listening to the worldly, popular music. Stop supporting sin. Really bad stuff is coming very soon. Get ready people.
  
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- TheGrtDcptn
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:51am
  ‘Really bad stuff is coming very soon.’
  
  Sadly, yes…spiritual blindless will be their downfall…
  
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- TheGrtDcptn
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:17am
  Oops…blindness*…
  
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1HonestInjun
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:54am
What happens in Sodom and Gomorrah stays in Sodom and Gomorrah.

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RVTechNomad
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:35am
No matter how you dress it up, immoral and deviant behavior is still just that. Lucifer is still the god of this world and his disciples are growing in numbers as the godless continue to push their agenda. These slaves to satan are doomed like Sodom.

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momrules
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:33am
Everyone is welcome, even black people.
Everyone is welcome. even Muslims.
Everyone is welcome, even Mexicans.
Everyone is welcome, even homosexuals.

Would any of the above cause an uproar of anger from select groups? Yes it would, but to say everyone is welcome even straight people is OK. Welcome to the world of the new normal.

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- woodyee
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:57am
  I like the way you THINK, Mom! Great post – thank you!
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:27am
  Straight people have been making fun of gay people for eons. They should be able to take what they dish out.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:44am
  Yes, Lloyd, we know you libs are hypocrites.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:27am
  hey LLOYD, so glad you could join us…I don’t suppose you have a couple examples of a mainstream advertisement that disparages gays? I don’t remember seeing one in recent history, but you seem so confident that it has been going on “for eons”…I’m sure you won’t mind sharing with the class!
  
  PS, people publicly denouncing homosexuality due to their personal religious conviction does NOT count, thanks :-)
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 12:53pm
  My, aren’t we feeling thin-skinned today! These ads are appearing in gay media only; you will not find them in mainstream outlets.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:47pm
  I’m assuming that means you can’t back up your statement? No “thin skin” here, just calling your bs
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:54pm
  It’s no secret that gay people have been ridiculed, often as a warmup to physical assault, for a very long time. Ask anyone you know or suspect is gay. Whether or not gays have been belittled in mainstream media is irrelevant since, as I pointed out, these ads target a specifically gay audience in very specifically gay media. Your children will not find them anywhere near the leading results when they Google “Las Vegas.” You will not see them in the Reader’s Digest or Good Housekeeping or on NBC. Maybe the Gay Travel Channel, if there is one. I trust I’ve made my point clear. Good-day, Sir or Madam.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:36pm
  Your point is as clear as mud, thank you…so, do you happen to have any examples of mainstream websites (besides porn sites) that have a “straights only” section, in which they bash straights (or make them look foolish, or out of touch)?
  
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- BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:08pm
  @Lloyd
  
  Just wondering if in your world two wrongs always makes a right or does it in just this scenario?
  
  Every straight person has not made fun of someone who is gay. I don’t make fun of any particular group or demographic. It benefits no one. As one who has a degree in marketing, let me tell you what bothers me most about this. To anyone who sees it, it says “look at how boring and hum-drum the lives are of straight people.” They seem out of place in almost every scenario, whether at the pool, restaurant, nightclub or whatever. But if you are homosexual, you know what it is like to really live; you know how to have fun. Hence, everyone should strive to be gay. Try it, you might like it. This doesn’t help the LGBT community’s stance on “I was born this way” now does it? Why target and make fun of a group “because they were NOT born that way.”
  
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- Tracy F
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 12:49pm
  Terrific observartion and well stated! The outrage would be deafening.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:30am
All I needed was a little excuse to save myself 2.5 hrs of travel time, and patronize your local competitors. Thanks, Vegas! Hello, Morongo, and Pala, Barona, and Laughlin…

Heeheeheeeee!

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- Zipit
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:45am
  Exactly! Do these buffoons NOT understand that they will probably pizz off more people with ads like this, and lose more business than they will gain from the lbgt’s? DUH!
  
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sta
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:21am
I’m straight and now not as equal as other pigs.

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frnchmn
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:20am
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:19am
They don’t call Vegas Sin City for nothing.

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- chikonabike
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 6:57pm
  My thoughts, exactly!
  
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kp200516
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:19am
Satan is at work in the United States. The sad thing is, so many people don’t care

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- DonaldH
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:40am
  You are right. Straight white Christian American males have become the most worthless and spinless people on the face of this planet. 50 years of the Public Education telling us how pathetic we are and have been through out all of history has paid off for all that is and will be wrong in this world.
  
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frnchmn
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:18am
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

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Zipit
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:17am
Yeah baby!!! Really makes me wanna go jump in the hot-tub at that hotel!! Definitely won’t be wearing the speedo at the pool either!!!!!!!!

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love the kids
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:16am
The one picture reminds me of a “Bath House” .

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 9:00am
  Too Much Information!
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 10:25am
  I think i see bathhouse berry
  
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love the kids
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:13am
Scratch Vegas from my possible travel plans. Not because i’m against gay couples, but I am against anyone targeting a specific group. I guess when they started to cater to families with kids about 15 years ago, they no longer want them

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 8:22am
  Purveyors of Lost Wages know that breeders and their spawn are expensive and frugal.
  
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