From the Greensboro News & Record: Reidsville City Council members said they stand behind Almond’s decision and applauded his quick response.

“If he became aware of that and didnt do something, then I would say that would be a problem,” Councilwoman Joan Zdanski said. Zdanski said she appreciates freedom of speech but said it carries with it responsibility.

Councilman W. Clark Turner agreed with her.

“If he (Boswell) wants to stand on the street corner and say that, thats one thing,” Turner said. “But to say it in a city-sponsored event — that is altogether a different thing.”

Good to see that Mr. Almond is getting backed by his council – and they too will not allow bigots to perform just so a few people can get off on hearing some so-called performer feel like a big boy by saying the word queer.

Applause is in order for these people!

You’re really beating a dead horse with Tom. He’s probably some of those southern Virginia “hillbilly” supporters who can’t get enough of Matt Boswell and now place him on some pedestal because he’s a big boy and can say queer all on his own. Just this morning we were discussing this very story and someone said..whatever happened to free speech? I said nothing, but theres a difference is saying it on a street corner or anywhere else and being PAID by a CITY to say it at a FAMILY concert event. The response was..oh wait, the city was paying him to sing? When I replied yes..the response then became..well is the boy an idiot or what?

So see Erich and David..sometimes it takes a while for the water to soak in the soil..and it takes time for some of these nitwits (no offense Tom) to get it through the granite they call a skull.

Now I would encourage Tom to go back to whatever cave he comes from and let that sink in for awhile.

It allows people like this alleged this singer to say what they want, for the most part.

It does not require a government or private entity to hire people to say mean things.

Same thing with online comments. People can feel a right to say what they wish, but that does not require others to read them or respond to them.

Just how dumb are you? People can ‘free speech’ all they want, but the city has the same right to say that insults, derogatory terms, and blatant hate won’t be subsidized by city funds, especially when those city funds more than likely were partly financed by a couple of gay men or women.

What if I took a bunch of cash from, oh, say, the Christian Coalition, and used it to launch my new show about christ clowns, religitards, and a nice class on how perform satanic rituals?

Are they required to tolerate that because I have free speech rights?

I don’t think so and neither do you.

If these people weren’t so hateful we wouldn’t have to force things on them, would we.

What I don’t understand is why your sympathies lie with some redneck who would obviously like to see you dead or damaged just because of how you have sex.

How far does it have to go before you think it’s enough? If he punched you in the face? “Free speech! I hate queers!”

get the f-over being call a damn fag or dyke..

Maybe the best part of the video is this crowd. While they all looked like they just left a taping of the Springer show, did you notice the NON-REACTION of them? They looked a little bored with Señor Haystacks and the Hillillies. Either they were bored or agree with this clown.

The only real reaction I saw to his song was after he said the “stupid gays and queers” part was from the woman in the red shirt and overalls who stands there and claps. You know, the one that looks like she just polished off five trips to the Golden Corral all-you-can-eat buffet. Pitiful.

Wonder why Boswell isn’t issuing any statements about how he stands by God, Momma, the flag, guns, the Iraq war, George W., apple pie and hound dogs? Oh, and how proud he is to be a breeder. Can’t forget that.

We aren’t the “Red” state ignorant ass Northerners and Left Coasties think we are. Perhaps if you got out of your “blue state” vs “red state” mentality and didn’t look at all Southerners with contempt you’d realize we arne’t all bad… and that good people like the Reidsville city manager is standing up for all peple, including LGBT people.

I don’t care what this man sings….he probably is a closet case, but it seems to me….these “Red” staters are the fattest in America and that should not go unnoticed.

Isn’t it about time that someone stands up to bigots and say enough is enough? It gets under my skin that so-called “performers” think they can take liberties with people’s lives and say anything on a stage and call it entertainment. Most people just sit back and do nothing. But for a man who is the city manager of a small town in the south to take a stand and say NO to bigotry – that says a lot!

I notice on Matt Boswell’s Myspace page that he performs some in Greensboro at places like Arizona Pete’s. I challenge my gay brothers and sisters to start avoiding this place, and if you do go there, to mention to the managers that they allowing a bigot to perform there. If they employ a man who slings out the words “stupid queers” for entertainment value, then our gay and lesbian dollars should be spent elsewhere. Saying no says a lot when it hits businesses in their wallets.

I hate to sound cliche, but each journey starts with small steps. It looks like Reidsville is well on their way. The citizens there should be proud of their city manager.

Kudos, Reidsville! Stand tall!

Reidsville is a very small town, and I’ve always been told that small towns breed small minds. But for the city manager of such a small town to say that their venues are meant to bring people together instead of dividing them – and that type of performing will not be tolerated – indicates to me that maybe this country is progressing along..even if its baby steps. Thank you, Mr. Almond!

And to Matt Boswell, like the old saying goes, your tongue can dig a hole deep enough that you can’t get out of. Take notice of that. Seems like if that fact hasn’t sunk in your seemingly small brain and mind, it sure has hit you in your wallet.

Bye bye, Matt Boswell and the Hillbilly Blues Band!

Always screaming your heads off about morality, while acting in the most immoral ways toward the ‘queers’ YOU created.

Hopefully, these bigoted musicians do not have children whose young minds are being poisoned by bigotry and hatred.

Morality indeed, Matt Boswell and the Hillbilly Blues Band.

Morality, indeed.