“Look people, let's just try and get some perspective and acceptance on here. The Pride, as has been stated, will (just like the Christmas Market) attract people from all over the county and further afield, and they're all going to be spending money, thus supporting the local businesses of Lincoln that are involved in running the Pride. As Craig pointed out, it can be a good, free day for a family or a group of friends, and the atmosphere is relaxed and friendly, and most importantly, prejudice free.
There is absolutely nothing in The Bible to suggest that same sex relationships are a sin. God is all about promoting acceptance, respect, tolerance and love for your fellow humans. I'm sure he'd condone true love between a same sex couple just as much as he would with a heterosexual couple. I think people who use religeon to promote their own intolerance, prejudice and hatred are the REAL sinners.
As for the taxpayer's money issue, nobody publicly objects to it being spent on other 'minority group' causes such as the 10K Run, The Christmas Market, etc, the ONLY reason people are playing that card in this forum is because they're blindly homophobic.”

“please remember we have a conservative council in Lincoln! and although not a supporter of them myself, they did actually support Pride 2009!!”

“And where does it say that the fire brigade is funding it this year? Or that it will need policing or extra street cleaning? Oh, that's right, nowhere.”

“Let's set the story straight for those who are too thick to understand. The 'gay pride' event WILL cost the tax payers money. When it was funded by the fire brigade who do you think pays their wages? If there is extra policing or council cleaning up of the public streets afterwards it is us the taxpaying general public that will pay the police and the council through our taxes to do their jobs. Despite the fact that the lesbian and homosexual community within Lincoln make less than 5% of the poulatrion 100% of us, the tax paying community end up paying. Have your shindig by all means but please fund it entirely yourselves please. I would rather see my hard earned money being spent on something that will benefit the whole community.”

“"To anyone with any common sense it is a complete waste of taxpayers money"

And this is a good reason not to vote conservative, either. One more time for the hard of thinking: IT DOES NOT SAY ANYWHERE THAT THIS WILL BE FUNDED BY THE TAXPAYER.

Has that got through your thick tory skull yet? Or would you like a Venn diagram with that?

Labour... conservative... utter, utter, utter morons the lot of them.”

“This is another reason to vote conservative at the next general election! David Cameron has set out a clear agenda to cut funding for all these barmy diversity events that the ineffective labour government is encouraging through is obsession with centralized targets.

To anyone with any common sense it is a complete waste of taxpayers money, the system Labour has introduced is barmy and encourages silliness like this. Of course the fire brigade will do it, it is a cheap way for them to look good and to score better on their targets without actually doing anything worthwhile.”

“It is everything that is wrong with the service rolled into one¿.. political correctness, obsession with ticking boxes, waste, and funds being taken out of the crews usually via onerous ¿restructures¿ which puts cost ahead of safety and morale¿. wasn¿t this event meant to show us in a positive light??? All I see is disgruntled people quite fairly asking questions of the management!”

“Most gay people I know would say it had too much money though. I kinda felt pride in 2009 lost its meaning and needs to become more of a community focused event rather than a celebrity party. Good luck to all involved in 2010”

“Please, please, please - I cannot see anywhere in the article mention of tax payers funding Pride 2010.
Until then, please stop banging on about public funding.
Thank you.”

“"I see we are going down the route of "if you don't agree with me and my opinion you are a bigot" again. What makes gay people think they are always right and everyone else is wrong? Why do they think that only they are allowed an opinion?
At the end of the day they are a minority and those of us that are straight are still the majority, so we are still entitled to post our thoughts."

Steve:
1. I am not gay. Your assumption that only gay people support gay people is daft.

2. You are very entitled to your views and to expressing them. You must equally understand that if you say ignorant and narrow-minded things open-minded and accepting people will want to argue with you.

3. Noone has removed your comments have they, Steve? So you are allowed to have them aren't you.

Talk about paranoia amongst the bigots! "I'm not homophobic, its just about taxpayers money!"”