RP Jones
July 1st 03, 02:56 AM
BS!!! BS !! What a disgrace, here in NYC last night !!!
Over 50 woman started this brawl, some with Mohawks on motorcycles on the
pier outside my apt window, police had to be called in. Police on my tax
dollar that is......FOR WHAT?
I want my taxes to go where they are needed TO PROTECT US....THE PUBLIC not
baby-sit these *******s.
What a can of worms and in your face B.S. this is new law's going to bring,
JUST WAIT !!!!
-RP
"Lord Floyd" > wrote in message
...
> NEW YORK, June 29 (AFP) - Tens of thousands took to the streets of New
> York
> on Sunday for the 34th annual Gay Pride Day, with celebrations
> sweetened by
> the US Supreme Court decision to knock down laws banning gay sex.
> "I'm so emotional about all this stuff going on. We've been working
> so hard
> for so many years," parade co-director Tom Hom said.
> Organizers refused to predict attendance, but the parade, which
> usually
> attracts close to half a million, could top that number, buoyed by
> recent
> victories for the movement.
> "I'm so excited and joyous, but I know there's more work left to be
> done,"
> Hom added.
> The march in New York, one of the biggest in the world, was given
> added
> impetus by the ruling by the United States' highest court that sodomy
> laws
> were unconstitutional.
> The march started at noon along Fifth Avenue and headed south
> toward
> Greenwich Village, site of the 1969 "Stonewall rebellion" against the
> repression of homosexuals. The movement grew, spawning pride parades in
> many
> US cities and around the world.
> "When we come to events like this we get to be reminded of how
> diverse the
> population is," said one marcher.
> "Some day the rest of the country is going to recognize the
> relationship.
> and I think that is really one step in that direction."
> Gay and lesbian couples are also savoring Canada's recent decision
> to allow
> same-sex marriages. The US magazine Newsweek asked on its cover: "Is
> Gay
> Marriage Next?"
> Conservative politicians stepped up to voice their opposition to
> same sex
> marriages however.
> "Marriage is a sacrament ... traditionally in our Western values has
> been
> defined, as between a man and a woman," Bill Frist, the head of the
> Republican
> majority in the Senate, told ABC television Sunday.
> On Thursday, the US Supreme Court struck down state laws banning gay
> sex
> between consenting adults, even in private.
> The court decided that Texas could not punish two men arrested for
> having
> sex in a private apartment. The Supreme Court decision was acclaimed by
> gay
> rights groups but bitterly condemned by conservatives.
> "The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by
> making
> their private sexual conduct a crime." the court said in its 6-3
> decision,
> which struck down similar laws in all 13 states, some of which punished
> acts
> of oral or anal sex.
> Texas was one of four US states where it had been a crime for
> members of
> the same sex to engage in sodomy. In Texas this was defined as oral or
> anal
> sex.
> The challenge to the Texas statute started after sheriff's deputies
> in
> Harris County arrested John Lawrence and Tyron Garner when they were
> discovered having sex in Lawrence's apartment in September 1998.
>
>
Over 50 woman started this brawl, some with Mohawks on motorcycles on the
pier outside my apt window, police had to be called in. Police on my tax
dollar that is......FOR WHAT?
I want my taxes to go where they are needed TO PROTECT US....THE PUBLIC not
baby-sit these *******s.
What a can of worms and in your face B.S. this is new law's going to bring,
JUST WAIT !!!!
-RP
"Lord Floyd" > wrote in message
...
> NEW YORK, June 29 (AFP) - Tens of thousands took to the streets of New
> York
> on Sunday for the 34th annual Gay Pride Day, with celebrations
> sweetened by
> the US Supreme Court decision to knock down laws banning gay sex.
> "I'm so emotional about all this stuff going on. We've been working
> so hard
> for so many years," parade co-director Tom Hom said.
> Organizers refused to predict attendance, but the parade, which
> usually
> attracts close to half a million, could top that number, buoyed by
> recent
> victories for the movement.
> "I'm so excited and joyous, but I know there's more work left to be
> done,"
> Hom added.
> The march in New York, one of the biggest in the world, was given
> added
> impetus by the ruling by the United States' highest court that sodomy
> laws
> were unconstitutional.
> The march started at noon along Fifth Avenue and headed south
> toward
> Greenwich Village, site of the 1969 "Stonewall rebellion" against the
> repression of homosexuals. The movement grew, spawning pride parades in
> many
> US cities and around the world.
> "When we come to events like this we get to be reminded of how
> diverse the
> population is," said one marcher.
> "Some day the rest of the country is going to recognize the
> relationship.
> and I think that is really one step in that direction."
> Gay and lesbian couples are also savoring Canada's recent decision
> to allow
> same-sex marriages. The US magazine Newsweek asked on its cover: "Is
> Gay
> Marriage Next?"
> Conservative politicians stepped up to voice their opposition to
> same sex
> marriages however.
> "Marriage is a sacrament ... traditionally in our Western values has
> been
> defined, as between a man and a woman," Bill Frist, the head of the
> Republican
> majority in the Senate, told ABC television Sunday.
> On Thursday, the US Supreme Court struck down state laws banning gay
> sex
> between consenting adults, even in private.
> The court decided that Texas could not punish two men arrested for
> having
> sex in a private apartment. The Supreme Court decision was acclaimed by
> gay
> rights groups but bitterly condemned by conservatives.
> "The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by
> making
> their private sexual conduct a crime." the court said in its 6-3
> decision,
> which struck down similar laws in all 13 states, some of which punished
> acts
> of oral or anal sex.
> Texas was one of four US states where it had been a crime for
> members of
> the same sex to engage in sodomy. In Texas this was defined as oral or
> anal
> sex.
> The challenge to the Texas statute started after sheriff's deputies
> in
> Harris County arrested John Lawrence and Tyron Garner when they were
> discovered having sex in Lawrence's apartment in September 1998.
>
>