Newsworthy: Cuba To Host LGBT Rights Convention

[Rolyo85]

Mel Brooks was playing a king in a movie. This is real life. BTW, Obama still plays his weekly card game of deciding who's going to die. You also don't know anything about me. 21 posts and you know me or anyone else here? ... unless you're a reincarnation of a banned member or using dual names. Hmmmmmm

He may not, but I know everything about you, and he's got a point.

 

[TX-Beau]

He may not, but I know everything about you, and he's got a point.

Apparently Jack thinks that if you haven't created a profile, you can't see him.

Is anyone really still going to argue that there is some kind of national interest beyond tradition to maintain the Cuban embargo? Really? What are they going to do? Invade us with their fleet of 59 Chevys, and Soviet East German Trabants?

 

[rareboy]

The point is that had our policies been different, Cuba might have stopped being so totalitarian. Clinton actually holds serious responsibility in that regard, since the pope's visit to Cuba on his watch offered a big opportunity, and he missed it completely.

Engagement is everything.

And I wish that Obama would take that step. He is the perfect person to do it. The Springers and FOXers hate his guts anyway and it would be an opportunity to make a difference in the world.

 

[TX-Beau]

They never should have become Communist to begin with, Castro came to us FIRST, then we pissed on him.

 

[Jack Springer]

Engagement is everything.

And I wish that Obama would take that step. He is the perfect person to do it. The Springers and FOXers hate his guts anyway and it would be an opportunity to make a difference in the world.

Like I said before Obama doesn't have the balls. He's just a reactionary -- if someone pushes him he says or does something. You don't have to look long at Obama's history to prove this is true.

I hear the next LGBT Rights Convention is going to be in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Rolyo85]

Well it's not gonna be at CPAC, that's for sure...

 

[Jack Springer]

Well it's not gonna be at CPAC, that's for sure...

If you don't realize that a LGBT Human Rights conference would be more likely to occur at a CPAC convention than in Saudi Arabia --- you don't know America very well.

 

[Mariatenebre]

Honestly it boggles my mind why we don't have relations with Cuba and yet have relations with despotisms like Saudi Arabia which make Cuba look like a Utopia. However I do applaud them for this. This is a big step in direction in comparison to their previous anti homosexual policies of Cuba including causing many gays to be exiled.

 

[mightbe]

Like I said before Obama doesn't have the balls. He's just a reactionary -- if someone pushes him he says or does something.

First sentence: Mostly true. He should, although he's repeatedly shown his lack of initiative.

Second sentence: Part A. Not true. He's not a reactionary; that connotates one who completely opposes liberal reform and would prefer a reinstatement of earlier policies (usually in the attempt to emulate a past that never was). Part B. This portion is somewhat true, see First sentence.

 

[mightbe]

If you don't realize that a LGBT Human Rights conference would be more likely to occur at a CPAC convention than in Saudi Arabia --- you don't know America very well.

Splitting hairs (for the moment, at least). By 2016, maybe that will change. I don't see them changing their stance anytime before the next election, and I doubt by 2018 that will have changed within CPAC. I actually doubt that the Republican platform will change one bit after total marriage equality. Unless something drastic happens, they won't amend that position in the next 6 years.

 

[T-Rexx]

By 2016, maybe that will change. I don't see them changing their stance anytime before the next election, and I doubt by 2018 that will have changed within CPAC. I actually doubt that the Republican platform will change one bit after total marriage equality. Unless something drastic happens, they won't amend that position in the next 6 years.

I agree with this completely.

Although it is clearly hurting Republicans, they don't seem able to modify their ideology to accommodate the thinking of the public. They will fall further and further behind the status quo for the next few years, then they will spend the next couple years after that trying to rehabilitate their image as the party of hate.

Barring some catastrophe, Democrats have a lock on the presidency for the next ten years.

 

[Jack Springer]

First sentence: Mostly true. He should, although he's repeatedly shown his lack of initiative.

Second sentence: Part A. Not true. He's not a reactionary; that connotates one who completely opposes liberal reform and would prefer a reinstatement of earlier policies (usually in the attempt to emulate a past that never was). Part B. This portion is somewhat true, see First sentence.

He not done a thing to stop the war in either Syria or Ukraine. People are still dying.

I'm glad he has done something in Nigeria -- but really wonder why.

 

[xbuzzerx]

He not done a thing to stop the war in either Syria or Ukraine. People are still dying.

0 public interest in either. And when the White House did want to do something about Syria, you were against it. Then you switched when the White House switched. So I don't really think any Democrat, least of all Obama, should lose much sleep over whether or not you approve of their decisions. That's a rigged game.

 

[rareboy]

I hear the next LGBT Rights Convention is going to be in Saudi Arabia.

Can you back that up with a citation or source?

Or explain the relevance to this thread.

Which is about Cuba hosting an international LGBT conference?

The pity is, that because of the US policy on Cuba....few US citizens will have the opportunity to attend.

 

[Jack Springer]

0 public interest in either. And when the White House did want to do something about Syria, you were against it. Then you switched when the White House switched. So I don't really think any Democrat, least of all Obama, should lose much sleep over whether or not you approve of their decisions. That's a rigged game.

Obama and Clintton weren't interested in the scum that kidnapped the hundred of girls in Nigeria either -- in fact refusing to label them a terrorist organization until recently. Just when it became popular to do so have they done something.

 

[Jack Springer]

Can you back that up with a citation or source?

Or explain the relevance to this thread.

Which is about Cuba hosting an international LGBT conference?

The pity is, that because of the US policy on Cuba....few US citizens will have the opportunity to attend.

I'm sorry you don't get 'sarcasm' ... since you've been on the giving side of it many times.

I doubt that the Administration will keep anyone from attending the fake conference in Cuba.

 

[rareboy]

U.S. citizens are barred from traveling to Cuba without government permission under a U.S. trade embargo imposed half a century ago that can only be lifted by Congress.

The rise in U.S. visitors partly reflects a loosening of travel restrictions by President Barack Obama's administration and allow "people-to-people" contact aimed at speeding political change on the communist-ruled island 90 miles from Florida.

As well as allowing Cuban Americans to travel to Cuba freely, Obama authorized licenses for "purposeful" travel to more than 250 Cuba travel agents and allowed more airports to provide charter service between the two countries.

The program, which began in 2011 and requires annual renewal of permission to bring groups to Cuba, allows for educational and cultural travel. The regulations require detailed itineraries of each traveling group.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/18/us-cuba-usa-tourism-idUSBRE99H0J320131018

I hope that as many homos as possible decide to travel to Cuba to attend the conference....but I fear that most will be hamstrung and unable to attend.

 

[Jack Springer]

... all the homos from around the world can attend ... unless.....

Unless you're from Cuba .. Cubans not allowed to attend the conference.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/05/07/cuban-advocates-invited-international-lgbt-conference/

 

[TX-Beau]

Liar liar pants on fire. As usual, the article does not say what you claim it does. There is both official (Governmental - which sounds according to your article incredibly gay friendly according to American Standards) and unofficial Cuban participation and the people objecting were objecting because they weren't invited.

"...A group of independent Cuban advocates have sharply criticized organizers of an international LGBT conference underway in the Communist country over their decision not to invite them to the event.

The Washington Blade on Tuesday obtained a copy of a statement onto which the Cuban League Against AIDS and six other LGBT advocacy groups that are not affiliated with the country’s National Center for Sexual Education signed. CENESEX’s director, Mariela Castro Espín, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro, is president of the local committee that organized the sixth International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association for Latin America and the Caribbean Conference that is currently taking place in the beach resort of Varadero.

“We reject and denounce the fact that this meeting will take place with only the presence of a Cuban official and some non-governmental organizations,” reads the statement..."

See more at: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014...ational-lgbt-conference/#sthash.saqI2h2h.dpuf

 

[Jack Springer]

Liar liar pants on fire. As usual, the article does not say what you claim it does. There is both official (Governmental - which sounds according to your article incredibly gay friendly according to American Standards) and unofficial Cuban participation and the people objecting were objecting because they weren't invited.

You really don't understand how a totalitarian communist regime works ... do you. The Castro's are dictators.

Explain why regular Cubans are not allowed to attend.

You bought the spin.