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."
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It will be classified as hate speech and suppressed. Naugle will be silenced.
Not like their sewer activities are any safer in private.
Telling someone that jumping off a roof will get them hurt, can get you in big trouble.
Who would’a thunk it, all someone had to do was ask them to quit!
Seems like the members of the Fort Lauderdale Tourism Board have their heads planted firmly in an important niche.
Also, talk about hypocrites.
Fort Lauderdale used to encourage college pukes to come in droves and puke in droves during Spring Break until there was too much bad publicity related to their unhealthy behavior.
Is having sex in public restrooms somehow more healthy than doing a beer bong by the pool?
Is it too much to ask people to get a room somewhere?
-PJ
“It’s about time someone stood up and told the truth.”
That’ll get him targeted by the left. The left recoils from the truth like a vampire recoils from a cross.
LMAO!
I saw him on O’Reilly too. I noticed when they put his name up on the screen, the had a (D) next to his name. It’s rare when I agree with a democrat, but I have to give him credit.
Jim Naugle, please run for congress.
The only way to stem the tide is for ALL of them to get psychological and religious help to STOP their disgusting behavior. Since we’re telling them that their behavior is just ducky, who’s going to tell them to stop.
The average smoker will live to be in his 70s.
The average male homosexual will live to be 41 years old.
Now, tell me, whose life style is awful and needs to be stopped. When will we stop this nonsense?
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.
It looks like that is the case.
The Tourism Board is actually saying they want and condone homosexual sex in public in their town because it is a moneymaker.
If they are willing to go that far, why not have a cable TV reality show about it? You know, film the homos doing their thing in public, it should get lots of viewers.
And preverts will flock to Ft Lauderdale!
(Just think how many barebackers won't be where we live)
I could almost accept Adam and Steve, the quiet and polite gay couple down the street with the especially attractive garden, etc.
But this....this obsessive, anonymous cruising/promiscuity that is central to the male homosexual scene...this I can not accept.
It is repulsive beyond words; it is nasty; it is unhealthy; and it is sick.
Randy Shilts, a deceased gay journalists, wrote a book more than a decade ago called, "And the Band Plays On." According to published descriptions, Shilts described the SF bathhouse scene in which men lay facedown in cubicles with cans of Crisco beside them. Others would peek in and, if they liked what they saw, would slap a handful of Crisco at the man's butt and have at it. They would then depart, never have faced their "partner."
Sorry to be so graphic. It is important to be explicit that what is being objected to is not some different, but idyllic, "commited" relationship, as the gay community likes to describe up to the sheeple. This disgusting, anonymous sex is central to the gay scene. There is clearly a wish/need to have this sort of sex even when a more respectable relationship is available.
It can not possibly disgust you, gentle FReeper, more than it disgusts me.
Yeah, good luck with that. It would be easier to put a citywide ban on eating french fries.
Maybe, to be nonjudgmental about it, Fort Lauderdale should put up signs saying:
"We don't sh#t in your bedrooms. Please don't f#ck in our restrooms."
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