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the Boy Scouts, we will move forward immediately with a campaign to change the city charter again."

The statement also attempts to conflate the ordinance with gay marriage and singles out transgender citizens for ridicule and insult.

"The fact that a person is confused about his/her gender and can't decide how to dress doesn't entitle that person to special protection in matters of employment and housing," Burress wrote.

"And in 2004 Ohioans voted overwhelmingly to pass a Marriage Protection Amendment to our state's Constitution. That Amendment restricts all city councils in Ohio from passing certain types of special rights ordinances, such as domestic partnerships, that give the benefits of marriage to same-sex couples."

Complaint to board is still on

"Now we know what their campaign message would have been," said CRF cochair Gary Wright of Burress's statement. Wright is also skeptical of Burress' claim

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shooting, and that the two of them were coming from Bounce nightclub, five blocks away at West 28th and Detroit.

Divinity declined to comment beyond

that.

Bounce closed and was emptied over an hour before the shooting, at 2:30 am.

Jones' aunt, Pam Kelly of Cleveland, said Jones, the oldest of ten children, used to help take care of her disabled son.

"He was supposed to return to Alabama the day after he was killed," said Kelly.

Ward 13 city councilor Joe Cimperman Isaid that he and Ward 17 councilor Matt Zone are concerned about the pair of gay murders. The two crimes straddle the boundary between their wards.

Cimperman said he and Zone are working with the Second Police District to patrol that area better, and that St. Paul's Church at Franklin and West 45th is developing some

that a poll taken last week shows that a majority of Cincinnatians, up to 67 percent, would have voted against the ordinance.

"Usually when they poll about 400 people or so, they hit one of our volunteers or someone we know gets polled and tells us," said Wright. "No one has done that."

CRF found during its door-to-door canvassing that support for the ordinance is at nearly 80 percent in the least supportive neighborhoods.

Wright believes that ERNSR withdrew the petitions in order to avoid an investigation, and is concerned that the Board of Elections will drop the matter.

"This wasn't just one person," said Wright. "The people who managed the process are responsible. The whole thing is about more than 1,300 signatures, not 18.”

"They withdrew because it is in their best interest not to have the questions asked or to have the questions answered," said Wright.

CRF is not withdrawing its complaint to the Board of Elections, which was set to be heard on August 17.

Board of Elections director John Williams said the board has the authority to keep the investigation alive, but could not say at press time what the board would do.

"I'm waiting for confirmation of what I read in the Enquirer this morning, at this point," said Williams.

outreach programs to try to reduce the overall crime in that area.

Cimperman said he and the rest of council "are all ears" to input from the LGBT community as to how to deal with the prostitution that area is noted for.

Divinity hosted a benefit at the Grid nightclub August 15 to help the family pay to ship Jones' body back to Alabama and for the burial expenses.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 19 at the Ask Creek CME Church in Gordonville, Alabama. Arrangements are being directed by E.G. Cummings funeral home of Montgomery.

Additional memorials can be made payable to Jones' grandmother, Annie Jones, and sent to the Gay People's Chronicle, P.O. Box 5426, Cleveland, Ohio 44101.

Cleveland police ask that anyone with information contact them at 216-791-2444. Information can also be passed on anonymously through the Chronicle at 216631-8646 or the Cleveland Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Center at 216651-5428.

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