A major paper has pick up on this story, and capture the outrage over the Stonewall weekend police raid at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas. In "A Raid at a Club in Texas Leaves a Man in the Hospital and Gay Advocates Angry," James McKinley, Jr. of the NYT captures the major issues at play and added a few more details about the event.
So many questions have been raised about the police account that on Friday afternoon, Mayor Mike Moncrief asked the United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas, James T. Jacks, to review the Police Department’s investigation.
Tom Anable, a 55-year-old accountant who said he was in the bar during the raid, said that for more than a half-hour the officers entered the bar repeatedly in groups of three and escorted people out. Then around 1:40 a.m., he said, the officers started to get rougher, throwing one young man down hard on a pool table.
Minutes later, one of the state agents approached Mr. Gibson, who was standing on steps to a lounge at the back of the bar with a bottle of water in his hands, and tapped him on the shoulder, Mr. Anable said. Mr. Gibson turned and said, “Why?”
Then the officer, who has not been identified, twisted Mr. [Chad] Gibson’s right arm behind his back, grabbed his neck, swung him off the steps and slammed his head into the wall of a hallway leading to the restrooms, Mr. Anable said. The agent then forced Mr. Gibson to the floor, Mr. Anable said.
“Gibson didn’t touch the officer,” Mr. Anable said. “He didn’t grope him.”
Angry allies and members of the LGBT community there have created a new organization, Fairness Fort Worth, to track the investigations and inquiries regarding the raid and plans a benefit concert to help those injured.
Related:
* Fort Worth Police Chief: yeah, that fag at the Rainbow Lounge deserved the beat-down
* News video: Ft. Worth Police gay-bashing at the Rainbow Lounge
* MSM coverage by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
* Report by The Dallas Observer
* DKos: Breaking: Raid on Fort Worth Gay Bar
* There is also a Facebook page
Just like Ted Haggard, Gov. Mark Sanford's "little Sanford" took over the South Carolina governor and was led to his Argentine concubine by Satan, according to his spiritual adviser.
Each Sunday afternoon in May, Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife hosted five other couples at the executive mansion for a spiritual "boot camp." Topics discussed during the hour-and-a-half-long sessions included forgiveness and "not loving your wife as Christ loved the church."
...In an interview with The Associated Press this weekend at his Columbia office, just blocks from the State House, [Warren "Cubby"] Culbertson said he believed his friend when he said that this was his only marital transgression. He thinks Sanford was simply caught off guard by "the power of darkness."
..."God hates lawlessness and is tireless in His desire to dissuade man from his fascination with lawlessness," reads a paper titled "Cubby's Talks." "Our hearts are lions' dens of devouring lusts. Lawlessness torments righteous souls every day."
Culbertson does not believe the other woman went out of her way to seduce a married man. When asked if he had met Maria, Culbertson paused, then looked up, an embarrassed smile creasing his face. "I'm not going to comment," he said.
Some days are better than others, I guess. From The Leaf Chronicle:
A disagreement at the local Social Security office Wednesday ended with one of the people dropping her pants.According to a Clarksville Police report, a customer became angry when she and a office clerk got into an argument about the customer's gender.
The suspect then allegedly dropped her pants to prove she was a female, according to the report by CPD Officer Nathan Vanatta.
Well. As we're having this "reboot" week that includes a lot of lively discussion on sex, gender, transgender, transsexual, and privileges of all sorts, the last line of the article goes to the suspect reality of living trans:
According to the report, the suspect was born a man and had gender reassignment surgery and is now a woman.
Worthy of note, I guess, is that the article mentions an argument between both the customer and the clerk, and metions the customer was "angry." Not only was the customer sex and gender suspect, but now she's a criminal suspect as well.
...With her story being of interest for her local press.
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Further Reading:
Alas A Blog: The [Cissexual] Privilege Checklist (Especially check out the first two items on the list these relate to this story)
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