Since the mid 1960s, Atlanta Georgia has been known as "The City too Busy to Hate" and the home of the Braves - The Atlanta Braves, that is.
Today, everyone in the city was shocked to learned that the Braves intend to leave Atlanta and move slightly north, from Fulton County to Cobb County; home of Newt Gingrich, rabid Tea-Partiers and a city (Kennesaw) where it is mandatory by law that every homeowner have a gun.
The Braves plan to build a new stadium, not far from Marietta, the county seat. And a place that is so hostile to homosexuality that it prefers not to fund any arts at all lest a dime of taxpayer cash go to a project that paints the gay lifestyle in a positive light.
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Exhibit "A" - an article from The New York Times from back in the previous century, which is one century later than most Cobb Countians would prefer to live.
The article is in reference to Cobb County funding of a community arts project called "Theater in the Square." It puts on plays, plays about things - plays about ideas, etc.
Only this one time, they decided to put on a play that mentioned homosexuality without also condemning it as evil, etc. So the County Commission decided that it would cut all funding for the arts, just to be sure no other arts group even accidentally did the same thing.
As the article points out, Cobb County commissioners wanted to send a message that they were not like the gay-friendly town of Atlanta:
The furor here partly reflected the desire of commissioners to make a statement in opposition to neighboring Atlanta, where officials recently agreed to grant domestic partnership status to the partners of gay city employees.
In short, Cobb was making a statement that unlike Atlanta, a City Too Busy to Hate, Cobb, indeed, had plenty of time to hate. In fact, it had so much time to hate that it took time from the usual amount of time it had to hate to make a blatant statement that, yes indeed, Cobb has plenty of time to hate.
Of course, this was a few years back. No one remembers this resolution anymore; leastways it hasn't shown up in all the media about the Braves' move to Cobb, which everyone knows is a center of Tea Party conservativism. A county that specifically turned down the metro Atlanta rapid rail system because of fears that "undesireables" - meaning dark skinned people - would somehow get in.
But maybe if some people at DailyKos made mention of the fact that the Braves want to move from a city too busy to hate to a community that is all about hatefulness, well, maybe it will have some impact.