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Humanists Add Voice to Advance Equality in Mississippi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For Immediate Release - Contact: Roy Speckhardt (202) 238-9088

(Washington, DC, August 15, 2003) The American Humanist Association (AHA) joins Equality Mississippi and other groups, including the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), in endorsing the ¡§Not One Dime¡¨ boycott of Gulfport, Mississippi.

The Gulfport city council recently passed a resolution expressing both opposition to the Supreme Court¡¦s decision in the Texas sodomy case and support for an amendment to the constitution banning same-sex unions. ¡§Not only does the Gulfport city council reject the right to privacy, they suggest writing inequality back into our constitution in a way we have not seen since women won the vote in 1920,¡¨ responded AHA executive director Tony Hileman.


Hileman continued, ¡§While the city council has the right to voice its opinion, Humanists have the right and responsibility to speak out, as we are, through endorsing this boycott. We deplore anti-gay prejudice in all its guises.¡¨


City council members have belittled the boycott effort and said it is likely to fail. Councilman Billy Hewes, who introduced the resolution, added, ¡§As far as I know Gulfport has always been a straight town and it needs to stay that way.¡¨ Hewes has gained national notoriety in the past by saying that ¡§homosexuals should be branded on their foreheads.¡¨


¡§The Gulfport city council¡¦s imprudent rhetoric needlessly marginalizes the gay and lesbian residents of the city they purport to serve, and alienates potential tourists from visiting the cash strapped state. Experience does not justify this sort of carelessness,¡¨ said Hileman.


AHA president Mel Lipman called on AHA members from across the country to ¡§Steer clear of Gulfport,¡¨ adding, ¡§Humanists must voice their support for equal rights, particularly in this bastion of the Bible Belt. Although it has been a summer of progress for gay rights, it¡¦s important to respond to any fundamentalist backlash to humanistic progress.¡¨


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The American Humanist Association is the oldest and largest Humanist organization in the nation. The AHA is dedicated to ensuring a voice for those with a positive outlook, based on reason and experience, which embraces all of humanity.



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Reason why I wasn't at all surprised by the councils support of Thames.


WLOX article one day after city council desicion:


Gulfport supports ban on gay union

By MIKE CUMMINGS


GULFPORT - The City Council passed a resolution Tuesday supporting President Bush's proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriages.

Councilman Billy Hewes introduced the resolution, saying it would help to protect the country's moral character from the forces of evil.

"To me, folks, things like (same-sex marriage) is the devil at work," Hewes said. "I think it is one of the most irresponsible things that people in government could allow to happen."

The resolution states the acceptance of same-sex marriage would "have a devastating effect on moral traditions and on the laws and legal system of the country."

Mayor Ken Combs endorsed the resolution.

"About 54 years ago when I got married to my wife, it was perfectly legal for us to get married and illegal for people of same sex to marry one another and that's the way I stand today," Combs said. "I don't move a bit from that stance."

Councilman Chuck Teston said same-sex marriage defies the intentions of Jesus Christ.

"I wouldn't be sitting here today if we condoned men marrying men and women marrying women," Teston said. "I don't think that's what the Lord Jesus Christ meant for us."


The resolution passed in a 6-0 vote. Councilwoman Ella Holmes-Hines abstained, saying she fiercely opposes same- sex marriage but does not believe it is necessary to amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit it.

Copies of the resolution will be sent to Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Dennis Hastert, South Mississippi's congressional delegation, Gov. Haley Barbour, and every member of the Legislature.



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Andrew

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What in the hell does this have to do with Shelby Thames unless he is homosexual and there foe he can be baned.

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"What in the hell does this have to do with Shelby Thames unless he is homosexual and there foe he can be baned."

 


Uh, could you restate your question?  It makes no sense.


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