Issue of lifestyle?

According to the National Park Service, regarding LBJ Grove on the Potomac:

 

Shortly  after Lyndon Baines Johnson died in January 1973, some of his friends began to  consider creating a national memorial to the 36th president of the United States in Washington, DC.  They decided that a grove of trees, a “living  memorial,” would be a fitting representation of a man who valued nature in his  personal life and supported environmental protection in his presidency.   Lady Bird Johnson selected Columbia Island,  lying between the George    Washington Memorial Parkway and the Boundary  Channel, as the site.  The LBJ Grove  Memorial Committee raised more than $2 million in donations from people all  over the United States.  Noted local landscape architect Meade Palmer  worked closely with Mrs. Johnson to plan the grove, which opened on April 6,  1976.  The memorial grove has two  sections.  The commemorative area,  surrounded by a grove of pine trees, focuses on the life, goals, and  accomplishments of Lyndon B. Johnson.   The second section consists of a broad grassy meadow encircled by a  gravel path for strolling and framed by trees.   Intended to provide physical and spiritual rejuvenation, this part of  the grove also reflects the solace Johnson found in nature and the outdoors.  The grassy meadow, especially set aside to  provide a peaceful setting for people to sit, walk, and relax, is in keeping  with Johnson’s legacy of trying to ensure that all Americans could enjoy what he  valued.

The spot sounds idyllic–the way many of us would like to  be memorialized.  Unfortunately this spot on the Potomac isn’t quite as scenic as it appears.

Tonight Channel 7 did an expose on the goings-0n at LBJ Grove just off GW Parkway.  The problem is hook ups in the park and especially the bathrooms.  Families and school trips are coming and going all in the middle of bathroom and parking lot trysts.

Channel 7 reported that there were very few police reports of arrests for lewd behavior.  While no one said WHO was hooking up, no one had to.  It was very obvious from what was said that this was a spot for gay hook ups.

Some have said this is a matter of discrimination and it is an issue of lifestyle.  WHAT?  I don’t care what your orientation is, the public has a right to expect people to do the deed in private.  Public bathrooms and parking lots are not the place for private acts.   I also don’t care what the orientation is.  Please spare the rest of us.  Private acts should be done in private.

The Park Police need to get on this problem pronto.  The Iwo Jima Memorial has the same problem.  Folks!  go to a bar.  I  don’t care what other people do in their private lives.  Operative work here is PRIVATE.