The Colbert Report this week visited the town of Vicco,
Kentucky in search of “people who are destroying America.”
The segment's target was Mayor Johnny Cummings, who is “a gay
mayor destroying America” with his gay agenda, the segment
sarcastically reported.
“Americans count on small towns to uphold traditional morality,
but Mayor Cummings is using his office to implement the gay agenda,”
a narrator says in a voiceover.
Cummings, also the town hairdresser, helped put tiny Vicco on the
map as the smallest town (population 334) in America with an
ordinance on the books banning discrimination based on sexual
orientation.
All of the townspeople interviewed for the report praised
Cummings' work except for local pastor Truman Hurt, who said that he
had nothing against gay people but wished they would “go back in
the closet where they belong.”
Hurt noted that gay people congregate in a bar, turning it gay.
“I've been to a gay bar in Dallas, Texas. … And was very
familiar as to what goes on in a gay bar. I was at the gay bar to
get a beer. I just walked in to the place. I was just making, just
making ...”
“... friends?” the narrator rhetorically asks.
“... my rounds. It just happened to be a place that said ...”
“... gay bar?”
“... beer. That's where I stopped.”
Another resident added: “If [God] is against it, why did he make
'em born that way? I can't understand that. I've tried and tried
and tried to understand that. I just can't.”
(Watch
the entire segment at Comedy Central.)