Posted on 08/23/2007 4:11:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
FORT LAUDERDALE, August 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At a news conference at City Hall this week, Jim Naugle, the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida has called on homosexual men to end their public sexual encounters in order to curb the local HIV/AIDS rate. "We want to put a stop to that activity," he said.
Since his first public comments in July, Naugle has been attacked on all sides for being nearly the only US public figure to oppose on moral grounds the encroachment of homosexual activity in his town.
Now Naugle is in the news again for his determination to clean up Fort Lauderdale's beaches and tourist spots that he says are a health threat. The tourist destinations, he says, are being used as "cruising" scenes for homosexual men looking for the anonymous sexual encounters that characterize the "gay" subculture. This activity, he says, is one of the major factors in the spread of the HIV virus in the area.
"Our goal isn't to arrest people," the Mayor said. "Our goal is to stop the activity…and we're going to save some lives in the process." Naugle said that eight men have been arrested in two years for having sex in restrooms at public parks.
"The health department, based on past statistics, estimates that around five hundred people in Broward County are going to contract HIV from men having sex with men." The mayor said that the local health department estimates that 74% of HIV cases are the result of male homosexual activity.
Naugle first ran afoul of the US homosexual activist community when he supported the decision of the Boy Scouts to ban homosexual troop leaders. He has also objected to the presence of a large collection of homosexual pornography in the local public library.
His forthright campaign to clean up Fort Lauderdale has earned him the vilification of the mainstream press as well as the homosexual lobby. James A. Smith Sr., Executive Editor of the Florida Baptist Witness writes that a "Flush Naugle" campaign has been launched seeking his removal from office, although his current term ends in 2009 and he is ineligible for re-election.
Naugle, in his sixth term as the longest serving mayor in Fort Lauderdale history, clarified previous comments that he said were misrepresented in the Sun Sentinel. He said that he did not say that homosexual tourism should be discouraged, but that "the county has a dilemma, that the health department is fighting the disease and the Brower County Convention Center is inviting more people here, including promoting the bathhouses…"
He told press that he would ask members of the Tourist Development Council to stop promoting bathhouses, where homosexual men meet for sex. Tourist information provided by Broward County invites tourists to visit bathhouses. Fort Lauderdale is known as the "Venice of America" and is one of North America's most important tourist destinations.
But at the meeting today, Naugle found himself at odds with local tourism business leaders who are using the homosexual subculture to promote "gay" tourism locally.
NBC6 news reports that Fort Lauderdale Tourism Board members said the mayor's opposition to public sex in tourist spots and bathhouses is hurting business.
"The county is receiving quite a few e-mails and inquiries of concern about what's happening," said Richard Gray, owner of Palm Resorts and Spa. "The gay and lesbian tourism market is a massive market here. It's about a $1 billion industry. It's a very important niche market for Fort Lauderdale."
Good for this Mayor, Ihope he sticks to it! Public sex is illegal, it’s as simple as that.
It really is no surprise that homosexuals are almost the sole contracters of AIDS/HIV. Sexual deviancy + Loose morals = Consequences.
The mayor is referring to the structures that contain multiple toilets as a "bathhouse," presumably meaning multiple bathrooms make up a bathhouse (as opposed to the old San Francisco-style bathhouses that were truly large indoor pools). The mayor also talked about advertisements in local papers to arrange meetings at particular stalls in a particular bathhouse.
Having gone to high school in Ft. Lauderdale, I can remember how it used to be for the "beach blanket bingo" crowd from the 1950's and 1960's, then it morphed into the spring break crowd in the 1970's, until the locals drove the college students to Daytona and then Panama City, and so apparently the gay population swooped in to fill the vacuum (probably migrating from Key West to South Beach [after the seniors who settled the area passed on] to Ft. Lauderdale).
I wonder why the locals feel that the gay economy is okay when the college economy was shunned and evicted.
-PJ
Amen - why has it taken so long for a reasonable voice to be heard?
Yes it is. Instant sexual gratification, anytime, anywhere, anyplace, is a large component of the gay male lifestyle.
This is why it is also too much to ask them to wear condoms.
Instead, we need to spend countless billions of dollars to try and cure AIDS at the time and expense of research towards curing other diseases.
He could challenge Crist or Martinez in 2010.
Gay Sex in Public a Major Health Risk , and the good Lord saw fit to cure it and gave them AIDS. Now rampant sexual immorality has caused it’s spread and everybody is at risk. So now we’re in a race to find a cure to God’s answer.
The rest of the deviant lifestyle includes seeking young boys for participation. They are constantly running the “gays” out of the restrooms of the soccer fields. Several of those dirty little soccer players have ratted out the “gays” for peacefully practicing their fecal obession in the local public outhouses. Shame on those little homophobes.
You don’t get it. There is a reason the queers want to have sex in filthy public restrooms. This is part of the “lifestyle” and according to reports is very exciting to these alternative folks.
There is an overlook of the city on Chickatawbut Road - - meant for families.
There must have been eight cars there with a single male sitting behind the steering wheel waiting for a homosexual hookup.
It was 9:05 AM!
It is my understanding that the Massachusetts State Police have been ordered not to bother these deviates.
When I was a teenager, we used to watch the submarine races with our honey at the reservoir at Boston College. The Metropolitan District Commission Police (since merged into the State Police) would always chase us out.
After all, we were engaged in straight sex - - or at least trying to.
The homosexual is clearly a protected species - - too bad they’re not on the endangered list.
No.
Before he became politically correct, Richard Belzer once said this about AIDS:
“Gee, who would have thought getting “bleeped” up the “bleep” 50 times a day would be bad for you?”
Obviously, I substituted the bleeps.
Oh, and now I know not to vacation in Ft. Lauderdale. I don’t even want to know what is growing in the hotel rooms.
Events have a way of taking care of themselves, i.e., homosexual sex usually leads to an early demise.
This is essentially proof that homosexuality is the result of either a choice, a mental illness or both. If homosexuality were genetic, the homosexual gene would have been out of the gene pool thousands of years ago.
no there is a COSMIC difference between your situation and public bathroom sex.
First, police were chasing everyone out.
Second, you and your submarine aficionado honey were looking for a secluded place to go.
Third, you were not looking for an anonymous “wham bam goodbye”.
Fourth, the only way you were going to die watching submarine races was if her father caught you with her at the submarine races.
HERE, the homosexuals are actually ADVERTISING for anonymous, deadly risk, recreational sex in a public traffic venue.
Based on the mayor’s comments 74% of those in the public bathroom recreation will contract a terminal disease. The question is why is a Tourism Board, funded by taxpayers, promoting this in public bathrooms?!
Your statement is probably why this has come to the attention of the mayor, the homosexuals have been killing tourism in that city by driving family and regular people away.
I bet san francisco does not have much of a family vacation tourist industry any more.
The irony is he comes from a republican family and had to switch parties to get elected to office.
He could be a DINO against martinez (martinez would be toast) or a primary challenger to martinez (martinez would be toast)
OR run against Nelson later on.
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