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Kaitlyn Hunt vs. The State of Florida

Free Kate

Amidst growing controversy in the wrongful arrest of Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, for her same sex love affair with a fellow student, 15, Florida's state attorney general stubbornly insists he "will not drop charges."

 

Ms. Hunt's long term romance with the younger girl -- an advanced placement student -- enraged the minor's homophobic parents, so they maliciously waited until her eighteenth birthday to file a criminal complaint alleging statutory rape.

 

Thereafter police set up a scheme to entrap Hunt into admitting to the supposedly *illicit* relationship via a phone conversation and, once she did, subsequently arrested her for "lewd and lascivious" conduct with a child.

 

Biased prosecutors had been hoping to quietly persecute Kaitlyn Hunt and add the LGBT teen's name to the national sex offender registry, thereby ruining her life forever. But her parents reached out through Facebook this week and even created a Change.org petition to stop the abuse of their lesbian daughter and her lover.

 

Florida's Romeo and Juliet Statute was enacted in 2007 to protect young people like Hunt who engage in premarital relations from being mistreated by the law and mischaracterized as sex offenders, though an exception is clearly being made because of Hunt's sexuality. 

 

In a month that has seen the shooting death of a gay man in the heart of New York City's famed Village district, and a nationwide escalation of similar hate crimes toward the homosexual community, the idea of state sanctioned harassment of gays and lesbians is quite onerous.

 

This case, one of the ugliest to emerge from Florida since butterfly ballots and Anita Bryant, needs as much attention as possible. A large public outcry will aid in preventing further harm to these two brave young ladies by unabashed bigots and deter those same authorities from discriminating in the future as well.

 

Whatever your own sexual persuasion is then, it doesn't matter, intolerance cannot be tolerated by a free people. So please take a moment to show some support for Kate in this battle. She and her parents are frightened, of course, and worried sick about a future that had once seemed so promising.

 

Visit the Free Kate page and join the fast growing group of supporters there, and also consider joining the 100,000+ citizens who've already signed the Hunt family's petition to free their daughter from such shocking injustice.

 

(And thank you for visiting my blog today!)

 

FRANCINE SAINT MARIE

  

Amazon Nazis

'First, apologies to those looking for digital copies of THE SECRET KEEPING, FORTUNE IS A WOMAN, and THE STOLEN KISS in the kindle store now. Yes, they've been there for years and years, but Amazon has developed yet another *issue* with these titles. This time because I demanded payment for 5100 eBook units they gave away without paying me a single dime.

 

Free eBooks are a real boon to Amazon, of course, because they help to sell lots and lots more kindle devices, but free books don't pay my bills, unfortunately, so I had to try and get the overdue royalties...or go homeless.

 

Amazonged again, I guess.

 

In any event, with the scandalous news today that Amazon Inc's fuhrer, Jeff Bezos, employs Nazis in various managerial roles throughout his Amazon empire, I've got to say, based on my own years of experience with this truly cold-blooded corporation of his, it really doesn't surprise me one bit.

 

From censorship of my work, e.g. rigging my kindle titles so they wouldn't register sales ranks allegedly because their LGBT subject matter is "smut",  to de-ranking my paperback editions so they too wouldn't show up in customer search results, stripping them of tags, pirating them, etc., etc., etc., all I can say about today's revelations is that it's clear now the only thing this company isn't guilty of is goosestepping.

 

So far, anyway.' 

- Francine Saint Marie, author of THE SECRET TRILOGY

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AMAZON VINE™ TRUSTED REVIEWER G. Uhl: "Worth every penny. The problem with reading Francine Saint Marie is that for a little while after, everything else sucks. It's too good...the prose and wit and the perfect way the author balances the sexy with the gin and the corporate with the waiter and the honor with the dishonor among women."

AMAZON VINE™ TRUSTED REVIEWER Reading Junkie: "Saint Marie's third novel in the Secret Keeping series is wonderful and it brings this worthy saga to an appropriate ending....This book wraps things up very neatly...Kudos, Francine, for a job well done."
 

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