Gays take aim at Betty Ann Blaine says Observer ......

This of course is not the first blogger to have pointed out Miss Blaine's course of advocacy in berating the gay community's struggles and calls for rights, now has come a new blogger who is carrying on the agitation as done by this blog, Pensive Moods and others locally and overseas based LGBT writers, Miss Blaine and by extension the Observer are late in realising she has been and is being watched as to her utterances and posturings.

Here is the paper's take appearing today:

JAMAICA Observer columnist Betty Ann Blaine has come under fire from the lesbian, bi-sexual, gay and transsexual community for her column entitled 'The big gay lie', which appeared in Tuesday's edition of the paper.

A website, antigayfact.wordpress.com, has dubbed Blaine an anti-gay activist.

"Betty Ann Blaine happens to be one of the anti-gay activists that AGFC keeps a close eye on," a report on the website stated.

But Blaine was far from amused Tuesday and said that she considered the statement a veiled threat.

"This is of great concern to me. What does 'keep a close eye on' mean? I don't know if they have me on a hit list. Is someone stalking me? Does it mean I am under surveillance? This is amazing," Blaine told the Jamaica Observer.

In her column, Blaine made reference to a Sunday Observer article in which former Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green attempted to debunk a claim by gay rights group Jamaica Forum for Lesbians All-Sexuals and Gays that gays who are the victims of murder are killed by homophobic Jamaicans. Green said his investigations have unearthed evidence that most of the killings he investigated were committed by other gay persons.

The website also took issue with Green's statements and alleged that the article, titled Gay claims not true, was part of this newspaper's 'anti-gay propaganda machinery'.

Tuesday, Blaine rubbished claims that she was an anti-gay activist and defended her right to free speech.

"All I have done is speak the truth. I love everybody. I don't care if they are gay or straight, but I don't support the lifestyle or behaviour," she said.

JFLAG has long advocated a repeal of the buggery legislation, which outlaws anal sex. Under the law, an offender can receive a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Blaine, however, said the law should remain in place until deviant sexual behaviour by adults toward minors is eliminated.

"We are not changing the buggery law. 


The number of children who are being buggered in Jamaica means we can't change the law until we can be assured that our children will be protected from sexual predators. This is the time to strengthen laws that refer to sexual behaviour because we know that children are being buggered in Jamaica and it is happening behind closed doors and in secret places," Blaine said.

She argued that most children who are vulnerable to sexual abuse are from underprivileged backgrounds.

"We cannot change the buggery law until we fix poverty. It is because a lot of children are so poor why they face sexual abuse, whether it is homosexual or heterosexual," she said.


also see: 

We lose out, Betty Ann (Observer Letter)

also see:

Betty-Ann claims Anti-gay Fact Check “threatened” her.

and

DEBUNKING BETTY-ANN BLAINE’S ANTI-GAY ARTICLE

also see JFLAG's morning appearance on Television Jamaica's TVJ, morning program Smile Jamaica on July 13th where the ED spoke to the issue, see what you make of it:

more responses in letters from newspapers:
A Gay's Life is Not an easy road
The Big Gay Lie is a Fact (an alleged police officer wrote)

also is an interesting Facebook exchange on her profile with a LGBT community member reveals much disturbingly:

And she finds it offensive when the AGFC (antigayfactcheck) called her an anti-gay activist?

What does she mean by “Just know that the rights you are fighting for will not go anywhere because of me in particular“? Is that a threat to attack our free speech?
This is the woman that wants to be Prime Minister with her political party, New Nation Coalition? 

Is this how she will treat the fight against AIDS as the leader of our country? As something gays have because of their “nasty deprave [sic] acts“? 

To think of AIDS as something to laugh about?

Is this what her indulgence into the anti-gay agenda turned her into? What happened to the human rights and child rights activist we knew of?

More HERE

more audio feedback on how persons feel about Jamaica being one of the most homophobic countries