Gay Inmates Granted Conjugal Visits

26 X World Champs · 06-02-07, 05:09 PM

This story should make our Gay bashing Forum members INSANE! How dare Gays in prison be treated as people with relationships and feelings...just like heterosexuals...

My feeling is "so what"! Gays deserve the same visitation rights as anyone else.

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Gay Inmates Granted Conjugal Visits

By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: June 3, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 — Gay and lesbian prisoners in California will be allowed overnight visits with their partners under a new prison policy, believed to be the first time a state has allowed same-sex conjugal stays.

The policy comes more than two years after a 2003 California law provided equal rights for registered domestic partners in California, including those of the same sex and non-married heterosexuals. Gay and civil rights groups had threatened to sue to permit the conjugal visits in prisons, which they say have been slow to enact changes promised by the law.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/us/03visit.html?hp

RightinNYC · 06-02-07, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by 26 X World Champs

This story should make our Gay bashing Forum members INSANE! How dare Gays in prison be treated as people with relationships and feelings...just like heterosexuals...

My feeling is "so what"! Gays deserve the same visitation rights as anyone else.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/us/03visit.html?hp

Setting aside your strawman for a moment, this is good news.

This one quote was a bit amusing:

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Shannon Minter, the legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, called the policy change a “great leap forward” but said gay and lesbian inmates were often still the target of discrimination and violence.

“There are certain social arenas that have been insulated from social changes going on in broader society, and jails and prisons is one of those areas,” Mr. Minter said.

Wait...you mean the kind of thugs and morons who end up in prison aren't generally as enlightened as the population as a whole? Unbelievable.

Navy Pride · 06-02-07, 05:21 PM

Hey I am all for it..........If striaghts can have visits, why not gays......

26 X World Champs · 06-02-07, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Navy Pride

Hey I am all for it..........If striaghts can have visits, why not gays......

Then, for once, you and I agree on something Navy Pride. Very LIBERAL of you, I must say!

Navy Pride · 06-02-07, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by 26 X World Champs

Then, for once, you and I agree on something Navy Pride. Very LIBERAL of you, I must say!

I don't know liberal but its the right thing.....If you could take off your blinders for a minute you might see that.......probably not though.....

TurtleDude · 06-02-07, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Navy Pride

I don't know liberal but its the right thing.....If you could take off your blinders for a minute you might see that.......probably not though.....

Hee Hee-I thought gays had the advantage of not needing conjugal visits to "get some" in prison while straights are discriminated against

Gibberish · 06-02-07, 07:27 PM

Are they being allowed to call it a conjugal visit or is it a "civil-visit" for homosexuals?

Kasmos · 06-02-07, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Gibberish

Are they being allowed to call it a conjugal visit or is it a "civil-visit" for homosexuals?

Hahahaha, that definitely made my day.

jamesrage · 06-03-07, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by 26 X World Champs

This story should make our Gay bashing Forum members INSANE! How dare Gays in prison be treated as people with relationships and feelings...just like heterosexuals...

My feeling is "so what"! Gays deserve the same visitation rights as anyone else.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/us/03visit.html?hp

I do not think inmates should have conjugal visits at all,regardless if they are straight or gay.Prison inmates are scum regardless if they are straight or gay.They are in prison ,the only thing prison inmates deserve is bread, water and hard labor.This conjugal visit crap was probably the first thing that led to these scum getting getting additional things like weights,no mandatory hard labor,libraries,television, and so on.

chevydriver1123 · 06-03-07, 10:19 AM

People are more relaxed when they get laid anyway.