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http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/texas_resort_refuses_lodging_to_uganda_presidentSummit organizers suggested attendees stay at the Hotel Las Colinas, but with rooms for just $110 a night, President Museveni's people decided his stature requires something a little more upscale. So with the president's comfort in mind, the Uganda party reserved rooms at the luxurious Four Seasons Resort And Club in Irving, a stone's throw away from Exxon-Mobil World Headquarters.
Now, the President's party is scrambling for an accommodation. After an article in The Dallas Voice revealed plans by the Dallas-area LGBT community to protest President Museveni, the Four Seasons has cancelled the reservation of the president and his party. Gay Star News reported today that President Musevenis party has also been turned away by the Gaylord Texan Resort, owned by the Marriott hotel chain.
Earlier this year, Uganda's parliament passed what has become knows as the Kill the Gays bill, which criminalizes homosexuality. Last month the law was declared unconstitutional on a technicality but lawmakers are attempting to pass it again.
That's right, folks. Texas. Next time I see Texas-bashing here (probably right after my lunch break ), I'm gonna throw this right in their face. The real surprise is the Marriott-owned resort following suit.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)...and
mythology
(9,527 posts)It's nice to see a hatemonger being treated like an outcast.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...and ask him for hotel recommendations. After all, Museveni has followed Lively's recommendations on so many other things:
"In late February, when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the nation's harsh new anti-gay bill into law, he claimed the measure had been "provoked by arrogant and careless western groups that are fond of coming into our schools and recruiting young children into homosexuality." What he failed to mention is that the legislationwhich makes homosexuality a crime punishable by life in prison in some caseswas itself largely due to Western interlopers, chief among them a radical American pastor named Scott Lively.
"Lively, a 56-year-old Massachusetts native, specializes in stirring up anti-gay feeling around the globe. In Uganda, which he first visited in 2002, he has cultivated ties to influential politicians and religious leaders at the forefront of the nation's anti-gay crusade. Just before the first draft of Uganda's anti-gay bill began circulating in April 2009, Lively traveled to Kampala and gave lengthy presentations to members of Uganda's parliament and cabinet, which laid out the argument that the nation's president and lawmakers would later use to justify Uganda's draconian anti-gay crackdownnamely that Western agitators were trying to unravel Uganda's social fabric by spreading "the disease" of homosexuality to children. "They're looking for other people to be able to prey upon," Lively said, according to video footage. "When they see a child that's from a broken home it's like they have a flashing neon sign over their head."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/scott-lively-anti-gay-law-uganda
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)That or let him camp in a WalMart parking lot.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)broadcaster75201
(387 posts)nt
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)and that Texas should be allowed to secede.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014899330#post7
steve2470
(37,457 posts)The region bashing around here gets really old.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)And don't even bother alerting on it. The Jury voted 5-2 to LEAVE IT.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Oh, now I get it. It wasn't an act of corporate citizenship, it was fear of protesters spoiling their fancy resort atmosphere. Much like the men's rights conference that got canceled, or at least moved around, in Michigan recently.
Still, good job by the Dallas LGBT community.
Of course, it does teach folks that Texas only cares when you're noisy. Maybe it's time to go park in front of the Supreme Court, as well as every Texas lawmaker's office until they should learn not to be so...jerkish.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Hey Texas!
I love Wendy and I want your state turned purple, and you know what? By saying no to anti gay Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, you just took a giant step forward!
I am loving you Texas, who says we can't win this!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I find it ironic that his reservations were canceled by the Gaylord.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)Beat me by two minutes!
Hulk
(6,699 posts)That's great there are some wonderful people who live there, or are from there.
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)You wanted to stay at the "Gaylord Texan Resort"?
Irony can sometimes be so ironic.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I am sure they can get a room at a no-tell motel.