A San Diego firefighter said he is getting threatening phone calls after he and three of his co-workers objected to the sexual taunts and graphic gestures they endured while participating against their will in a "gay pride" parade.
The four say they were ordered to be in the parade and have filed a sexual harassment suit over the incident.
Capt. John Ghiotto, who said he's been the target of threats, told San Diego radio host Rick Roberts about what he had to go through.
“We got subjected to a lot of verbal abuse, a bunch of sexual gestures," he said.
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, said the incident shines a light on activists' constant cries for "tolerance."
“This is not an aberration," he told Family News in Focus. "This is the history of this movement, which pretends to be a civil-rights movement, but is actually a radical homosexual-activist movement.”
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department announced last week it will no longer require on-duty crews to participate in parades. But Brian Rooney, an attorney with the Thomas More Law Center, which is representing the firefighters, said the lawsuit is still necessary.
“We want the policy changed clearly so that nobody will ever be ordered against their will to participate in this kind of parade again," he said. "We also want that to stand as the paradigm for other policemen and firemen across the nation to say that if they are put in this situation, they don’t have to take it, and they can stand up say 'I’m not going to do it.' ”
