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the unequivocal notion : Idaho: Where some families are more family than others

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:29:40 +0000

I don't know if you live locally, or if you are a supporter of LGBT civil rights but if you are please reply.

the unequivocal notion : Idaho: Where some families are more family than others

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:25:02 +0000

Those of you in support of civil rights for LGBT community are welcome to join in a rally on Feb. 21st, its a saturday, at noon. At the rec center. Be there to stand up for whats right.

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:18:03 +0000

Anyone interested in helping support the civil rights of LGBT community please come join us in a Rally in front of the Nampa rec center on saturday feb. 21st at noon.........

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Tue, 3 Feb 2009 02:47:20 +0000

Please visit this site: http://www.pridedepot.com/modules/wordpress/?p=73... It contains more information about the story.........Help us fight for justice and equality. Lets teach our children love and tolerence rather than fear and hate....

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Tue, 3 Feb 2009 02:41:46 +0000

Anyone that would like to read a little further about this issue please feel free to go to: http://www.pridedepot.com/modules/wordpress/?p=73... There is further informtion to this story.....and much more to come.

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:54:10 +0000

Thank you for the support!! We appreciate all of it. And Congrats on the marriage. :)

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:14:36 +0000

I am seeking information about the web site that you said you found this information on. You said its called washingtonblade.com? Where abouts in that site did you find this info?

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:48:32 +0000

So for you people sitting in front of your computers with your rantings of church and non-church issues, It is simple....If this country could come together, not just from an economical stand point but also from a stand point that everyone should have the same rights as everyone else, whether you agree or disagree with their sexual preference or not. We need to stop trying to live everyone elses lives for them, live our own lives and let the people of the LGBT community get married if they want. I had a shirt once that said, "Against gay marraige? DON'T MARRY ONE." It is as simple as that. Keep your christian/LDS/baptist or whatever else believes for you and your own family and I will keep my "Gay" beliefs for my own family. We never asked you to agree with what we are, we just asked to have the same right that you have, To marry!!!!

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:48:03 +0000

To monika-This couple does not just live together. THEY ARE A FAMILY. They are raising a child together. One of them carries the other on her insurance policy. (NOT SOMETHING THAT ROOMMATES/FRIENDS DO). They aren't "friends" living together and asking for a hand out. They are a family, a couple, and if they could be legally married in the state of idaho, I ASSURE YOU THAT THEY WOULD BE. Not only can they not get married in the state of idaho but now they are having their ability to be called a family questioned by the rec center. I will tell you now that my sister has a pass to the rec center. When she went in to sign up, they did not ask any questons, no marriage license was asked for.

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:18:23 +0000

They didn't ask for special rights. They asked for the rec center to honor what they told them over the phone. The girls were told that if they could show that one depended on the other, like a "straight/married" couple could that they would allow a membership. One of the girls carried the other on her insurance as a dependent for over a year through her place of work. They had paperwork showing that. In order to be placed on that insurance they had to provide proof of joint account and written documentation that they had lived together for a certain length of time. So, ITS DISCRIMINATION..........NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT.

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:57:24 +0000

I'm annoyed with people like yourself you think you are right. and your right should be everyone elses right. Well your WRONG, so its moot point.....

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:19:25 +0000

We want to be able to do the same things that you are. Idaho dose not recognize a gay marriage, so that makes it okay for a company to not allow us a family membership becuase its run by "the good ol' boys" and they are against it. funny, but I'm pretty sure that we live the same way that you do. I go to school/work, PAY TAXES, drink from the same drinking fountains (god forbid), pay my bills with my wife/girlfriend, and so on.......and I shouldn't be able to get married to her because YOU say so......sounds pretty close-minded to me....I bet you believe a woman shouldn't be able to decide what she does or doesn't do with her body too!!!

2News - Boise, ID : Gay couple denied family gym discount | KBCI CBS 2 - News, Weather and Sports - Boise, ID Boise, Ida

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:46:59 +0000

Boycott what you will. The LGBT community deserves to have the same rights as everyone else. We wouldn't be angry about the fact that they won't let us get a membership as a family if we could get married just like the rest of the straight community. In the mean time, until CLOSE-MINDED people like yourselves learn that you can't push your beliefs and/or RELIGION on everyone else and allow the members of the LGBT EQUAL RIGHTS, we will continue to fight against those that discriminate. (And as far as that little boy is concerned, he has two parents that love him dearly and will be stronger for the things they will instil in him)