Boycott Jamaica

[ECO]

Note: I'm posting this just as an FYI, without a doubt I don't support this group of people on Facebook.

Every year the U.S. survey of human rights practices for Jamaica and the deadly violence and other horrific acts perpetrated against LGBT people makes for grim reading.

The reports never contain any good news for Jamaican LGBT people, and the latest report, issued in February, documents a dramatic surge in human rights violations, that too often go uninvestigated and unprosecuted. Here are some depressing highlights:

"The Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG) continued to report human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention, mob attacks, stabbings, harassment of homosexual patients by hospital and prison staff, and targeted shootings of homosexuals ... a fire bombing at the home of two men that left one of them with burns on more than 60 percent of his body ... Lesbian women were subject to sexual assault as well as other physical attacks ... No laws protect persons living with HIV/AIDS from discrimination. Human rights NGOs [non-governmental organizations] reported severe stigma and discrimination against this group."

Also well-documented in the Jamaican press, with gruesome photos included, are mob attacks on transgender persons, often beaten bloody, left with no protection from the police force.

The nation's prime minister, Bruce Golding, recently called for strengthening and preserving the draconian buggery law, which fuels much of the burning homo-hatred across Jamaica's political and religious institutions.

Golding boasted to parliament: "We are not going to yield to the pressure, whether that pressure comes from individual organizations, individuals, whether that pressure comes from foreign governments or groups of countries, to liberalize the laws as it relates to buggery."

The time has come to ask all gay bars and restaurants to boycott Jamaican rum and beer. Switch to serving rums from Puerto Rico and beers produced in countries with enlightened gay laws and social acceptance.

The Jamaican boycott encompasses not only Myers's rum and Red Stripe beer; we are also asking travelers to avoid cruises to the country. There is no justifiable reason for gays and our allies who value the lives of LGBT and persons with AIDS in Jamaica to vacation there, or consume their alcoholic drinks.

Across the USA, gays are stepping up to create a successful boycott of Jamaican products and cruises.

Boycott Jamaica and feel alright.

Source: http://www.facebook.com/jerryjamesstone ... 1626413209


320 people belong to this group..........your thoughts?

[ECO]

I'll add that this group is 320 members strong, let's compare that to some other groups:

Beer pong has about 780,000 members! http://www.facebook.com/jerryjamesstone ... 1888?ref=s

Red Stripe has 1300 members. http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=coors&n ... 2206772548

Sex toys has 1500 members http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=coors&n ... 2391769627

[Rose21]

Jamaicans has a strong mind when it comes to not liking certain people or certain things. The gay community has to come up with a better solution on how to get Jamaicans to accept gays in the Island. Boycotting Beer and Rum won't solve the problem. I feel bad for the gays and lesbians in Jamaica, they need to be themseves and not hiding behind the huge thick wall that has been put up before them.

[Rose21]

Well I would have been happy if the Government of Barbados had ban Brokeback Mountain from showing in this country, as the Jamaican government did. I honestly thing that society has become too accepting of what breaks down moral standards and decency in our communities. However, I am not for abusing or cause harm to anyone for the lifestyles they have chosen.

So i assumed you have'nt seen Brokeback Mountin then?

[ECO]

BB, if you want to see the movie I can send you a copy Someone bought me a copy of it a few years ago as a joke and I have never found the urge to open it let alone play it.

My stance of GLBT ( I think that's the correct term for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender), I have several of them as friends, neighbors and clients. I enjoy gay people and don't look down on them for doing what makes them happy. With that said I'm not really in favor of them using the term "marriage" but the whole thing upsets me less than the price of gas so it's really not even worth mentioning.

I use to think places like Jamaica were foolish to turn away the gays and their $$$$$$$$$$ (more money for vacations than straight people) but now I just shrug my shoulders since it's really none of my business who they turn away or what airlines they sell.

[ECO]

I can't claim to follow what the bible says since I've never read the whole thing. I can state that I've never murdered someone nor have I slept with another man not because of the bible but because I have yet to meet another man that I want to murder or lay with.

[ECO]

You mean you have never once said "man I would kill this so and so?"............... if not check Tinks she may want that woman who sneezed on her snuffed (is it snuff or stuffed, I can't remember) out.

I don't think so, I have wished death on others but I don't think I've ever wanted to commit the act myself. I can say without a doubt that I've never wanted to lay with another man!

Lol @ TInks and her train friends.