Posted on 08/12/2014 11:13:08 AM PDT by massmike
The US Virgin Islands - St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John - are facing a gay marriage battle. A bill was drafted in their legislature in May, and although it hasnt yet been formally filed, the fight has already started. Pastors have organized across the territory and have begun to confront the gay marriage threat.
The bill was written by Sen. Judi Buckley, a liberal who is not running for re-election this year. (The Virgin Islands has a unicameral legislature with 15 senators, each with 2-year terms.) Being a lame-duck and not having to face voters -- is part of the reason shes doing this. The reality is, when you know youre not running for re-election, it takes away the fear, she told the local press.
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My understanding is the sodomy is not exactly welcome among the natives in the Caribbean.
Time to run this woman out of town on a rail to go ‘night fishing’.
I hope those pastors don’t have 501(c)(3)s!
The island of St. Croix has been a vacation destination for gays for years.
Maybe the bill can be held up before it reaches the floor. Kill it in committee.
Lol, I just lived there 15 months and this loons bill ain’t going anywhere but in the trashcan.
To another freeper on this threads comment about St Croix being a go to place for gays, I was in only one bar/restaurant in all my time there where there were homosexuals. And, it was in Fredericksted.
Nobody is real safe down there right now but a gay person is taking a chance. VI has the 8th highest murder rate in the world. They are, or maybe were the last time I checked, # 8. South Africa at that time was # 9.
Like Mexico, fear the cops!
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