Mass. Anti-Gay Petition Supporter Arrested

Police have arrested a man, who was soliciting names for a petition to ban gay marriage, outside a Pittsfield, Massachusetts supermarket.

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Pittsfield police say that the manager of a local Stop & Shop superstore asked to have the man removed when he refused to go voluntarily. The manager said that a number of shoppers complained about the man and the aggressive manner in which he was trying to get them to sign.

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Since Vote On Marriage began collecting names there has been a growing number of people who have complained of illegal practices being used.

Some people have complained to authorities while others have contacted newspapers throughout the state. Earlier this month a spokesperson for Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, said Reilly's office had received about a dozen complaints. A special investigator has been assigned to follow up on the complaints.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/101605massArrest.htm

I suppose if he was such an arse that customers were complaining, I shouldn't feel bad about beeing gleeful to see it happen to a rightie for a change, rather than one of our much abused drug law reformers.

There's a joke in the south that most people in the liquor stores are Baptists wearing bags over their heads so no one will see them buying their booze.


Quote from the article:
"Shoppers at plazas and beer stores say that after signing a separate petition to allow beer and wine sales in grocery stores, they were asked to sign a second petition with little or no explanation. That second petition was the gay-marriage measure."