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Politicians Call Opening Ceremony Plans Indecent, "Un-Gunnish"
AP Ayr
The Ayr 2018 Winter Stephanitic Games are one month away, and leaked plans for the opening ceremonies have become a lightning-rod for controversy in Gunnland. Organizers have proposed a performance symbolizing three themes from Gunnish history: the ancient origins of the sport of curling, Ayr's growth from a modest fishing village to a major regional financial center, and the struggle of Gunnishwomen for equal rights.
"Sixty years go, women were still stolen and sold in this country," said Catherine mL. Birmingham, a Liberal MT on the organizing committee for the Games. "We want to show how far we've come, and how far we have to go. We will not be silent." But plans for dancers to reenact woman-stealing have been criticized by Windhaven as an offense to good taste. The chief censor, Fr. Coemgein Gallagher, also argued that focusing on Ayr's banking industry risked "flaunting" usurious activities that are against Gunnish, but not Arundalian, laws. The censor has no jurisdiction in Arundel, but hinted that the Thing of All Gunnishmen might threaten to defund the games. In an opinion column for the national newspaper, The Advocate, Integrity MT Walter mA. Matthew writes, "We Gunnishmen are northerners, proud that our kings have kept Christ's peace here for over a thousand years, proud to display ancient traditions by which the whole world knows a Gunnishman. Those who think tawdry sluts dancing over thirty pieces of silver somehow represent Gunnish history should get the mazzatello -- that would be a better opening ceremony, at least, in my view."
The countess of the semi-autonomous County of Arundel, Mary MacLeod, attempted to steer a middle course: "The opening ceremonies will showcase Gunnish history, but also the history of Ayr, and the unique contribution of Arundel." Countess Mary is the leader of a progressive autonomous region, but also the fiancée of the conservative leader of the Thing, James B. Blackthorn.
AP Ayr
The Ayr 2018 Winter Stephanitic Games are one month away, and leaked plans for the opening ceremonies have become a lightning-rod for controversy in Gunnland. Organizers have proposed a performance symbolizing three themes from Gunnish history: the ancient origins of the sport of curling, Ayr's growth from a modest fishing village to a major regional financial center, and the struggle of Gunnishwomen for equal rights.
"Sixty years go, women were still stolen and sold in this country," said Catherine mL. Birmingham, a Liberal MT on the organizing committee for the Games. "We want to show how far we've come, and how far we have to go. We will not be silent." But plans for dancers to reenact woman-stealing have been criticized by Windhaven as an offense to good taste. The chief censor, Fr. Coemgein Gallagher, also argued that focusing on Ayr's banking industry risked "flaunting" usurious activities that are against Gunnish, but not Arundalian, laws. The censor has no jurisdiction in Arundel, but hinted that the Thing of All Gunnishmen might threaten to defund the games. In an opinion column for the national newspaper, The Advocate, Integrity MT Walter mA. Matthew writes, "We Gunnishmen are northerners, proud that our kings have kept Christ's peace here for over a thousand years, proud to display ancient traditions by which the whole world knows a Gunnishman. Those who think tawdry sluts dancing over thirty pieces of silver somehow represent Gunnish history should get the mazzatello -- that would be a better opening ceremony, at least, in my view."
The countess of the semi-autonomous County of Arundel, Mary MacLeod, attempted to steer a middle course: "The opening ceremonies will showcase Gunnish history, but also the history of Ayr, and the unique contribution of Arundel." Countess Mary is the leader of a progressive autonomous region, but also the fiancée of the conservative leader of the Thing, James B. Blackthorn.