Well, If another country wants to imprison gays: What recourse does the US have except for UN court?
--- On Wed, 3/21/12, Jake West <jakewest_tn@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Subject: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Hair Wars-Mar 22, 2012-Gay Cruise Passengers Arrested For Gay Sex
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> editorial writer for POST INTELLEGENCER, Paris
> TN:
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> Jerry Brenda writes a weekly column called
> "Across the Tracks" These are hate filled
> editorials. In his Feb 28, 2012 editorial he bashed Gay and
> Transgender children as being unnatural and placed fault on
> liberals. Therefore, we ask that all members check into the
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> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> Link to the "PI" in Jerry
> Brenda's latest Article to post Protest Statement.
> Latest Link: http://www.parispi.net/articles/2012/03/20/opinion/columns/doc4f68aa05017b0390681171.txt
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> Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX
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> commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that
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> McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine -
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
> to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
> to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
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> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
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> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
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> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
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> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
> to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
> to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
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> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
> to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> ACTION NEEDED NOW - Click this -
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
> to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> You Decide!
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> Mardi gras - Sydney / March 3,
> 2012
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> ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you
> to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> Stoked?
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> Mardi gras - Sydney / March 3,
> 2012
> Gay Cruise Passengers Arrested For Having
> Gay Sex In Caribbean
>
> 03/21/12; AP;
> Huffington Post
>
> SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico --
> Two California men on a gay cruise of the Caribbean were
> arrested Wednesday in Dominica, where sex between two men is
> illegal.
>
> Police Constable John George
> said the men were arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure
> and "buggery," a term equivalent to sodomy on the
> island. He identified the men as John Robert Hart, 41, and
> Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, but did not provide their
> hometowns.
>
> The two were later charged
> with indecent exposure and are scheduled to appear before a
> magistrate Thursday morning. If found guilty, they could be
> fined $370 each and face up to six months in
> jail.
>
> George said the men were seen
> having sex on the Celebrity Summit cruise ship by someone on
> the dock.
>
> The ship carrying about 2,000
> passengers departed Puerto Rico on Saturday and arrived in
> Dominica on Wednesday. It departed without the men and
> headed toward St. Barts.
>
> The cruise was organized by
> Atlantis Events, a Southern California company that
> specializes in gay travel.
>
> President Rich Campbell, who
> is aboard the cruise, said in a phone interview earlier that
> he thought the two men would be released. He did not
> immediately respond to requests for comment after the two
> were charged.
>
> The presence of gay cruises
> in the Caribbean has riled several conservative islands
> including Jamaica and Grenada, where anti-sodomy laws are
> enforced with strong backing from religious
> groups.
>
> The last time authorities in
> the Caribbean intervened on a gay cruise was in February
> 2011, when agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection
> arrested a California man aboard the Allure of the Seas,
> which had docked in St. Thomas. The man, Steven Barry
> Krumholz of West Hollywood, pleaded guilty to selling
> ecstasy, methamphetamine and ketamine to fellow
> passengers.
>
> Lisa Hardaway, a spokeswoman
> for Lambda Legal, a national gay-rights legal group, said no
> one was available to immediately comment on the
> case.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/gay-cruise-passengers-arrested-sex-caribbean-dominica_n_1371096.html
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> statement ("Copy and Paste 1st" - it as it will
> direct you to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
> FUTURE STORE), Home Depot (RULE-OUT FUTURE
> STORE)."
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> New Hampshire
> gay marriage repeal fails
>
> By Ros Krasny / Reuters / Mar 21,
> 2012; 7:26pm EDT
> BOSTON (Reuters) - New Hampshire
> lawmakers easily defeated a bill on Wednesday that would
> have been the first step toward reversing the state's
> law that allows same-sex couples to marry.
> The attempt to repeal a law that
> made gay marriages legal in the state, failed by a vote of
> 116-211 in the Republican-controlled legislature, drawing
> applause from many lawmakers in the historic statehouse in
> Concord.
> Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, had
> promised to veto the bill if it reached his desk.
> State lawmakers approved civil
> unions in 2007 and same-sex marriages in 2009, when both
> houses in the state legislature were controlled by
> Democrats.
> Close to 2,000 gay and lesbian
> couples have been married in New Hampshire since the current
> law went into effect January 1, 2010. The new law would have
> replaced same-sex marriages with civil unions starting in
> 2013, but marriages that took place before the repeal would
> have remained valid.
> That provision drew a rebuke from
> Jennifer Coffey, a Republican lawmaker who opposed the
> repeal.
>
> "This body has set in motion a
> ping-pong ball on people's lives," Coffey said
> during the two-hour floor debate.
> The bill's main sponsor was
> state Rep. David Bates, a Republican from Windham, who on
> Wednesday said that marriage equality would ruin society.
>
> A poll taken in late January by the
> University of New Hampshire's survey center showed 59
> percent of voters were against repealing gay marriage in New
> Hampshire, whose state motto is "live free or
> die."
>
> Some 100 Republicans were among the
> legislators to vote against the bill.
> "After the last election where
> Republicans gained control of both the House and the Senate,
> some thought that marriage equality was doomed. But many,
> many Republicans courageously stood up against repeal,"
> said Lee Swislow, executive director of Gay and Lesbian
> Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), a legal rights organization
> based in Boston.
> Ahead of the vote, more than
> 126,000 people signed an internet petition on the website
> Change. org, urging state lawmakers to leave the current law
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> The campaign was started by Craig
> Stowell, a former Marine and Iraq War veteran from
> Claremont, New Hampshire, who is co-chair of Standing Up for
> New Hampshire Families.
> "Today is a banner day for the
> freedom to marry," said Craig Stowell, whose brother,
> Calvin, is gay.
> Among the backers of Bates'
> legislation was the Washington-based group National
> Organization for Marriage, which vowed after the vote to
> "hold legislators accountable."
> "This is a sad day for New
> Hampshire families," Brian Brown, president of NOM,
> said in a statement.
> With the defeat of the repeal
> attempt, New Hampshire remains one of six U.S. states plus
> the District of Columbia where same-sex marriage is legal.
> The others are Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York
> and Vermont. Washington state and Maryland have approved gay
> marriage but the laws have not yet gone into
> effect.
> New Jersey's legislature
> approved same sex marriage but Republican Governor Chris
> Christie vetoed it. California continues to hash out the
> constitutionality of same-sex marriage in the
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> http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/21/us-gay-marriage-newhampshire-idUSBRE82K1KO20120321
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> survivor. Survivors always have
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> ....Jake
> Urgent Notice: Our ObamaBiden2008 Group works hand - in - hand with Peckers PICS
> (Both groups were co-created to work with each-other). To
> prevent duplication of articles and questions, all members
> of this group are urgently recommended to join ObamaBiden2008 . We have
> the LGBT boycott list and discuss end of DADT, etc... There
> are 3 gay teen suicides in the USA - daily! There are Hate
> crimes against gay people. There are gay people who are
> fired over their sexual identity. There are gay people who
> died for our cause! These groups are focused towards Yahoo
> Members who sincerely care about LGBT rights and are
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> President Barack Obama! - Occupy Wall
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> ACTION NEEDED NOW - Click this - Protest
> statement ("Copy and Paste" - it as it will direct
> you to link): Click this - Protest statement ("Copy and
> Paste 1st" - it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry
> Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial
> anti-gay, anti-transgender
> statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made
> by the Post Intelligencer!
> Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate? Therefore,
> Boycott all Paris Fish Fry's and any company that
> supports it! Boycott Mfrs
> of Henry County, TN and its Chamber of Commerce!
> cc. Budweiser, Allegro and
> Customers, Applebees (Stop your Project), TARGET (RULE-OUT
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> Pledge of Action @ the White House Web
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> http://wh.gov/XWH
> Note: When you reach the site, you will need
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> your email & copy. In Email you will get your link to
> copy and paste into your browser, and it will take you back
> to the White House site. You will be able to sign the
> petition. Now you can create your new personal password.
> Thanks! We really need your support! It is a member of our
> group that began this movement of Petition and it is
> signatures of the Petiton coming from our our groups that is
> driving factions of Occupy to accept the Petition. So we do
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To join the Obama group please click (or copy and paste the link into your browser) @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ObamaBiden2008/join
Thank you!
�Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.�
...Jake (Moderator)
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