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Anti-gay violence defies laid-back image of Jamaica
« on: February 24, 2008, 03:24:55 PM »
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Anti-gay violence defies laid-back image of Jamaica
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MANDEVILLE, Jamaica: One night in January, Andre and some friends were finishing dinner when a mob showed up at the front gate. Yelling anti-gay slurs and waving machetes, sticks and knives, 15 to 20 men kicked in the front door of the home he and his friends had rented and set upon them.

"I thought I was dead," Andre, a 20-year-old student, recounted in a faint voice, still scared enough that he was in hiding and did not want his full name to be used.

The mob pummeled him senseless. His right hand, the one he used to shield himself from the blows, is covered with bandages. His skull has deep cut marks and his ear was sliced in half, horizontally. Doctors managed to sew it back together, and he can hear out of it again.

Being gay in Jamaica is not easy. For years, human rights groups have denounced the harassment, beating and even killing of gays here, to little effect. No official statistic has been compiled on the number of attacks. But a recent string of especially violent, high-profile assaults has brought fresh condemnation to an island otherwise known as an easygoing tourist haven.

International Herald Tribune

Newsflash:  If you are openly gay, Jamaica is not a good place for you to go.  Solution: go somewhere else where being openly gay is tolerated.  That is all.
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Re: Anti-gay violence defies laid-back image of Jamaica
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2008, 03:41:13 PM »
Bush's fault in 5....4...3...
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Re: Anti-gay violence defies laid-back image of Jamaica
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2008, 03:56:41 PM »
I wonder and wonder and no one tells me.  What makes a homosexual's choice more of a right than the choice of those who do not want to have homos living openly among them?  No, I am not advocating violence or bodily harm.  That's disgusting too.

It is my thinking that those who do not want their lives to be invaded by practicing homosexuals have rights too.  They should be able to live their lives homo-free.   We have such barriers for pedophiles and such, why can we have places where homosexuals don't intrude on normal people's lives?  Why must one group give up a right to live as they choose just so some other group gets to live the life they want? 

In the end, someone is losing out on not getting their way.  Why can't it be the homosexual?   
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Re: Anti-gay violence defies laid-back image of Jamaica
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2008, 04:55:44 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on February 24, 2008, 03:56:41 PM
I wonder and wonder and no one tells me.  What makes a homosexual's choice more of a right than the choice of those who do not want to have homos living openly among them?  No, I am not advocating violence or bodily harm.  That's disgusting too.

It is my thinking that those who do not want their lives to be invaded by practicing homosexuals have rights too.  They should be able to live their lives homo-free.   We have such barriers for pedophiles and such, why can we have places where homosexuals don't intrude on normal people's lives?  Why must one group give up a right to live as they choose just so some other group gets to live the life they want? 

In the end, someone is losing out on not getting their way.  Why can't it be the homosexual?   
Because (I know it isn`t correct to begin a sentance with a preposition) the issue isn`t an issue of rights but one of political haymaking and creating a "class" of people to exploit in the advancement of Marxisim.


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Re: Anti-gay violence defies laid-back image of Jamaica
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2008, 04:59:40 PM »
Quote from: Carl on February 24, 2008, 04:55:44 PM
Quote from: Lord Undies on February 24, 2008, 03:56:41 PM
I wonder and wonder and no one tells me.  What makes a homosexual's choice more of a right than the choice of those who do not want to have homos living openly among them?  No, I am not advocating violence or bodily harm.  That's disgusting too.

It is my thinking that those who do not want their lives to be invaded by practicing homosexuals have rights too.  They should be able to live their lives homo-free.   We have such barriers for pedophiles and such, why can we have places where homosexuals don't intrude on normal people's lives?  Why must one group give up a right to live as they choose just so some other group gets to live the life they want? 

In the end, someone is losing out on not getting their way.  Why can't it be the homosexual?   
Because (I know it isn`t correct to begin a sentance with a preposition) the issue isn`t an issue of rights but one of political haymaking and creating a "class" of people to exploit in the advancement of Marxisim.




I know that.  You know that.  I want a liberal to tell me that, or die trying to twist his way out of it. 
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