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In reply to the discussion: LGBTers and Allies: How LGBT Friendly is your Community? [View all]RKP5637
(67,112 posts)17. I marked "Ok, but not great." That's if you keep your mouth shut. I would
never be open here, this is Kansas. The people aren't banging at our door, but then again they know nothing. We don't seem to have openly nutty preachers in this area. It's eastern KS so less ultra-conservative. At the state level, they would like to have you in jail as a criminal if it weren't for the Texas decision. And, we have a severely homophobic governor, and I imagine most of the state legislature is the same.
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Current state is very friendly and my long-term employer in TX became LGBT friendly in 1974.
freshwest
May 2012
#11
Very hard question-overall rural Mississippi is awful-in our case-not so much.....
Rowdyboy
May 2012
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