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A.G. GancarskiJanuary 19, 2016

A week after anti-HRO Roy Bay shocked Jacksonville with confessing child molestation at City Council Public Comment (a phrase I never expected to type), he’s got a new look and a new story. He told WJXT on Tuesday that he had molested young boys in the 1970s and 1980s, after being sold into sex slavery to a man […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 19, 2016

In a packed conference room, Jax City Council members, media, and activists convened to discuss the Committee of the Whole process Tuesday. Council President Greg Anderson, by necessity, reiterated much of what he’s said already on the subject, saying that the process would encompass the current bills, in addition to anything that may be coming from […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 19, 2016

For the Jacksonville Coalition for Equality, it’s all About the Benjamins on Jan. 29. A $100 suggested contribution is the price of admission for the Jacksonville Equality Affair. Speaking at the event: JCE Chair Dan Merkan, Councilman Tommy Hazouri, and Bishop Lorenzo Hall. Sponsorship opportunities start at $200, with the top end of the range exceeded only by […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 19, 2016

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On Tuesday morning, Doyle Carter joined John Crescimbeni, Aaron Bowman, and Matt Schellenberg in the Jacksonville City Council vice president race. The public notice meeting he called to this effect had plenty of room for whomever, though. No one showed except the councilman, his assistant, a staffer from the mayor’s office, and this reporter. During the half hour meeting, Carter […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 15, 2016

Several Jacksonville City Council members on Friday gave their take on the comments Roy Bay made this week in public comment on HRO expansion. Bay, perceived by some people as a plant put up to make a false connection between the serial child molestation he confessed to and homosexuality, shocked those watching in the room and at […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 14, 2016

Roy Bay‘s comments in front of Jacksonville’s City Council shocked the city Tuesday. On Thursday, though, he said he’s moved downstate, as the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says it’s looking into his statements. The Jacksonville man, a member of the Evangel Temple, described a lurid past for himself as he spoke against the city’s proposed expansion […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 13, 2016

On Tuesday night, Jacksonville’s City Council’s public comment was wall to wall HRO for over three hours. On Wednesday afternoon, the co-sponsor (with Republican Aaron Bowman) of an ordinance expanding the HRO to the LGBT community, Tommy Hazouri, spoke to a Democratic women’s group about the urgency of the effort. Speaking to the Democratic Women’s Information Network, Councilman […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 12, 2016

Opponents of expanding Jacksonville’s Human Rights Ordinance claim that protecting the rights of LGBT people to bathroom access of their choice will lead to sexual assaults in public restrooms. They say the crimes will be made possible under the guise of “gender expression” being exploited by nefarious sexual predators claiming to be a different gender […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 11, 2016

Ahead of the first Jacksonville City Council reading of the Human Rights Ordinance (HRO) expansion bills, the Jacksonville Coalition for Equality held its second news conference with faith leaders on Monday, a cold day in Springfield’s Klutho Park. The statement that 102 faith leaders of the Abrahamic faiths signed: Love and respect for one’s fellow […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 11, 2016

Diann Catlin, a panelist at the third Community Conversation Lenny Curry held on expansion of the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance, clearly had more to say after that process wrapped, if a letter to the Jacksonville mayor suggesting a “treaty” on LGB rights, which she sent last week, bears significance. “All over our country no one has been […]

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Roy Bay is back with a new personal narrative

Jax HRO Committee of the Whole discussed

Jax Coalition for Equality plans Jacksonville Equality Affair

In empty room, Doyle Carter launches Jax Council VP campaign

Jax councilmen talk Roy Bay child molestation confession, HRO

After Jax Council child molestation comments, Roy Bay says he’s moved to Miami

Tommy Hazouri talks Jax HRO with Dem women’s group

Media Matters demolishes anti-Jax HRO bathroom predator canard

Jax faith leaders call for HRO expansion

In ” just for you” letter, etiquette master Diann Catlin gives Lenny Curry Jax HRO “treaty” advice