The Grenadian government’s playing choose your own gay adventure after hearing that four gay cruises plan to dock in their ports.
Upon hearing the news, Tourism Minister Claris Modeste–Curwen wondered:
As a government our policy is that we do not support [homosexuality], but are we going to put a barrier that says in any port of entry that if somebody is gay they should be debarred from coming to this country…This is my question, what does the Grenadian community want of us.
Catholic priest Sean Doggett says that while he cannot endorse anti-gay discrimination, he wants the gays to know they should behave themselves, “…If they come to promote [homosexuality] among Grenadian people, then that certainly should not be accepted.” Ya hear that, homos?
No gay promotion while in Grenada. No gay give-aways, no gay publicity and – for the love of God – no gay agenda.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
The entire Caribbean playground has a huge sign that says the same thing that once excluded the Jew, the black, the Roman Catholic in many bathing areas of the USA.
The Roman priest believes in a more subtle form of bigotry and spiritual violence than his German pontiff. The Commonwealth nation should not receive either gay or gay-friendly dollars this winter. As apartheid South Africa ( now a marriage equality democracy)found out, economic boycott of tourist traps usually get the message quickly.
KJ
So, if I have this right, cruising is okay, but recruiting is not.
Timothy
The Granadians are idiots.
The Legend of the Seas will be in Southeast Asia on all the days they listed. And though the QM2 was charted in the past, I don’t know of any gay cruised planned on her.
RSVP will be sailing a yacht (227 passengers) into Granada in March. But I don’t know of any Atlantis, Olivia, or RFamily cruises destined for the island anytime soon.
But I do think it would be really funny if they tried banning Royal Carribean and Cunard lines from docking out of confusion that they were gay.
Micky1313
At least if you are gay you can get into the country of Grenada…
I live in Canada.. and just learned that if I were a gay married male.. my husband and I would NOT be allowed to enter the USA.
On top of that, at the border if you make the mistake of telling the agents that you are married, you get taken aside, finger printed, photographed and put on a no entry list.
And… if you get caught trying to enter the United States you can get sent to prison for 5 years. WTF?!?!?
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Micky….that is absolutely correct. Since we Canadians are legally married, the Grenadan government would deny us a tourist visa and entry into the Caribbean island nation, albeit a Commonwealth neighbour.
Nigel and I live in St. Margaret’s Bay NS and do so with our son, Norbert, age 4 and 5 this January. Where do you live? Do you have a family?
How long have you been partnered? and married?
We have been partnered since 1976 and married since 2003.