Peoria Journal Star Editorial Board Supports Gay Marriage

In an editorial in Sunday's Peoria Journal Star, the members of the editorial board (JSEB), stated that they disagreed with the owner of Chick-fil-A stance against gay marriage.

I have never had a problem with employees that I hired and worked with over 34 years who may have been gay. I am not "homophobic" as I have no fear of homosexuals and no animosity or hostility toward them.

I also never had their gayness pushed into my face. Now the militant gays want to make a big deal of it and demand their unions be legalized.

I strongly disagree.

I know I have one nephew who has lived most of his adult life with men. He is extremely talented and I am very proud of him. He and his friend are welcome. His attitude toward marriage has never been mentioned and I know it never will be a subject of conversation at any reunion, visit, etc, He is a good person. His business and feelings are his and I respect them.

But I do will never support gay marriage or gay civil unions.

And I disagree with the local JSEB on the right for gays to be united in civil ceremony. Not the first time I have disagreed with the JSEB and the City Desk as at least one older JSEB editor would still love to see a "highway from Peoria straight to Chicago" -- and that will NEVER happen.

G & D Integrated, Morton, Il. Plans to Fire or Lay Off 500 Employees

A little noticed article in the local media said that locally based G & D Integrated planned to cut 535 jobs in Decatur after losing a contract with Caterpillar. The company said it would hire about the same number number of logistics employees. But these new employees would have to go through the job applying process.

G & D was involved in a couple of ways with the bankrupt FireFly which local media indicated G & D owned the building FireFly leased out on Galena Rd. I'm not sure who is occuppying the building now but there does seem to some activity.

Nothing more has appeared in the media since 7/7/12. I wonder if the employees being laid off were union and the new logistic employees would be non-union.

Hmm?

Caterpillar has a large truck plant in Decatur. I had a store there at one time and did some business with Cat.

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Peoria Journal Star "G&D Loses Cat Contract; About 200 To Be Laid Off"

GigaOm "Latest Battery Startup Shutdown: FireFly Energy"

Central Illinois News Now (WEEK) "Peoria's Reaction to FireFly Closing"

Peoria Journal Star "FireFly Gives Up Battery Business"

Peoria Journal Star "FireFly CEO Blames Economy"

Peoria Chronicle "FireFly Closes, Taxpayers Left Holding the Bag" (See the comments.)

Widmer Peoria Watch "Shades of the Defunct Peoria IL Based FireFly"

Jonah Goldberg - One Man's Truth Trying to Offset the Racism and Liberalism of Robinson and Pitts in the JS

Thanks to the liberal bent local Journal Star for printing a "breath of fresh air", by nationally renowned columnist Jonah Goldberg.

"Churning the waters of our sick culture" is the subject of his column today. He says, "It's true that culture is more important than politics. However, you could impose Sweden's laws on the Middle East tomorrow but don't hold your breath waiting for the Saudis to turn into the Swedes of the Arabian Peninsula."

Our culture also has it's sickness more than ever before seen or heard in my lifetime. Goldberg talks of the South Florida lifeguard who left his designated location to save a drowning man 1500 feet away only to be fired next day by his superiors for dereliction of his duties. (Under public pressure, he was offered his job back, but his common sense, so lacking in much of our culture in the U.S., advised him not to accept the sadly belated offer)

Goldberg also reported that in California, going bankrupt California, of course, a suicidal man walked into the ocean and police and firefighters on the scene made no move to save him because of 'union rules'. They stood on the beach and watched.

And you wonder why I have a strong dislike for union bosses and the elected boards who grant these bosses this kind of power.

Liberal Nancy Pelosi brags how ObamaCare, the bill she admits she never read, "will allow us to be more creative, be a musician, a policeman or whatever, you can LEAVE your work and pursue your dreams."

Sure.

Read Goldberg's entire column in today's JS Editorial Page (JSEB) He is a down-to-earth, factual writer.