Life Site News has the details…

Four respected San Diego firefighters were ordered, against their wishes, to participate in uniform on their city fire truck in the city’s annual “Gay Pride” parade. During the course of the ensuing three hour long ordeal, the firefighters were subjected to obscene sexual taunts from homosexuals lining the parade route. This included the following statements: “show me your hose,” “you can put out my fire,” “you’re making me hot,” “give me mouth-to-mouth,” “you look hungry, why don’t you have a twinkie (from a man wearing a “Girth and Mirth” t-shirt),” and “blow my hose.” These firemen are devoted husbands and fathers. When they refused to respond to the crowd, some in the crowd turned hostile and started shouting, “F-k you firemen” and others began “flipping them off.”

San Diego area attorney, Charles LiMandri, the West Coast Director of the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is representing the firefighters in their legal claims against the city. LiMandri was also the lead counsel in the successful Mt. Soledad Cross case in San Diego. A 52 year native San Diegan, LiMandri stated: “What happened to these dedicated public servants was inexcusable. The City should have known from past experience the kind of offensive activities that go on at this event. This was a clear case of sexual harassment in violation of state and federal law as well as the City’s own code of conduct.”

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center added, “These firefighters dedicated their lives to save the lives of others. They did not sign on to become unwilling props to a controversial political and social agenda.”

Could there ever be a greater example of sexual harassment than in the details described in this report? Yet, these brave men who put their lives on the line to help those most vulnerable among us are forced into public humiliation by their own government. The fathers of sons and daughters humiliated for no other reason than a government that values political correctness over the welfare of the citizens that it proclaims to stand for. Shame on the city of San Diego and the politicians that force feed their liberal values so that they can continue to protect their own political aspirations. What a disgrace!

Cross posted at Political Vindication

Actor Tom Hanks writes,

“I was captured by the spirit of the Apollo program when I was twelve years old. I had been following the space program throughout the Mercury and Gemini flights, building model kits and watching the launches from my mom’s house in northern California.”We had an above ground pool in the backyard, and I would put a brick in the back of my swim trunks to hold me down on the bottom, suck in air through a garden hose, and lay there with my arms and legs adrift, pretending I was walking in space.”

Hanks returned to that adventure in 1994 for the filming of Apollo 13, in which he portrayed lunar astronaut Jim Lovell in an adaptation of the book “A MAN ON THE MOON - THE VOYAGES OF THE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS”, the definitive story of our nation’s lunar conquest, written by Andrew Chaikin.

     Chaikin joins me tonight (8/9) for “A Conversation with Andrea and…” on Blog Talk Radio at 9 p.m. ET to discuss the book, his access to the lunar astronauts, and his involvement in the HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon”, based in part on his book. Join us in the Live Chat Room.

In the same week Space Shuttle Endeavour leapt from its launch pad — and within a month of the first lunar mission anniversary that began here on the Space Coast, a chat with Chaikin about a man on the moon seems perfectly natural. Liftoff begins here:

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