01/24/2006
Another hate crime (this one in North Carolina's Henderson County) that will go down as a basic assault. Sent in by a reader, from the WLOS website: "47-year-old Donald McVey was found wandering along I-26 covered in blood on January 11th. The Sheriff's Department was initially investigating this as a simple assault, but now say they're looking into it as something more. That's because the victim says he was attacked because he's gay. Police have suspects but they are not in custody. When caught they will likely be charged with assault. It is not possible to charge them with a hate crime because there is no such statute in North Carolina."
Gay man in Northern Ireland harassed by gang of youths.
Montana nuts: Cracking down on school bullies legitimizes the gay lifestyle. The president of the Montana Family Coalition, Harris Himes, says it's a backdoor way of giving the homosexual lifestyle legal recognition. Sure, keep on allowing kids to beat up on the "faggots" at school because they're really second class citizens who deserve it anyway. Himes: "This is really a mind-control program that is essentially very dangerous." Unbelievable.
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I guess Mr Himes was never the victim of a schoolyard beating. How unfortunate.
Posted by: Liam | Jan 24, 2006 9:43:48 AM
God, are fucking going back in time? What the hell is wrong with this fucked up planet? I am so fucking tired of this fucking bullshit! Fuck!
Posted by: Michael W. | Jan 24, 2006 9:54:31 AM
Then perhaps parents of gay kids should tell them what my dad told me when I was being bullied at school for being a "fag". He said that I should take something heavy, hit the guy in the head, and make sure that when I hit him I did it hard enough so that he would be bloody and wouldn't get up again for a while.
There comes a time when peaceful resistance doesn't work anymore, and we have to teach our kids to fight back, and in a way that is nasty enough to deter the others.
Posted by: Brian | Jan 24, 2006 11:35:31 AM
Let's face it, if there were a group rounding up gays into concentration camps, conservative christians would support them in the name of Jesus,and if we were being killed Pat Robertson would be all over the airwaves applauding it and stating that it's the reason the hurricanes stopped!!!
So much for the land of the free......
Posted by: Mick | Jan 24, 2006 11:37:34 AM
Oh and one more thing... if Harris Himes of the Montana Family Coalition thinks homo bullying is such a great thing, I wonder how he'd feel if one of these gay kids finally snaps and pulls a Columbine-like thing? I doubt he'd be so quick to advocate this kind of torture if his kid was one of the bullies who gets shot.
Posted by: Brian | Jan 24, 2006 11:41:52 AM
I wonder if Mr Himes has ever spoken to a gay youth who gets teased, bullied, beat up, etc and ask him how he feels, or even to a straight youth who the other kids decide "acts gay". As much as I like to think that I have moved on from high school/junior high and all the crap that came along with it, stories like this give me a big pit in my stomach all over again
Posted by: jon | Jan 24, 2006 12:12:00 PM
I've been ranting about this new strategy by the American Taliban for months, and how all national gay groups should have fighting it in unison as Number 1 on their list [not gay marriage, as much as I support it]. Trust me, it IS a premeditated strategy that they will be implementing more and more: "Antiharassment Equals Antireligion." And, sick fucks that they are, like any bully going after the weak, they are delighting in legally attacking those of us who are most vulnerable--the young, who might not know how to physically fight back, who aren't just concerned about their immediate welfare, but the ramifications of even objecting: rejection by their family, friends, becoming, if they weren't before, known as the "School Queer." There was the case of Jim Wheeler in Pennsylvania. His family fully accepted him for being gay, but he was still traumatized at school--some kids in gym class pulled him out of the showers and urinated on him. From a poem he wrote: "...amid all the stereotypes sexual slurs catcalls and whispered Secrets iam i am i am Jim i am boy I am tall i am fairhaired i am a poet a painter and if i dare to call mySELF aa artist I will i am sensitive i am ANGRY i am in love i am
In hiding I am OUT of the dark celluloid closet Yes i am a HOMOsexual i am gay i am a queer a sissie a faerie a Fag a punk i am a QUEENie i am a girl AT heart a freak..."
He made it out of high school alive, but killed himself at 18, still soaked in self-loathing long after the piss had been washed away.
Posted by: Leland | Jan 24, 2006 1:44:26 PM
What's ironic for me is that bullies are, if not secretly gay themselves, responsible for promoting the sexuality of the `brute' male. I mean, I don't know about everyone here, but my childhood bully was a hottie, and it only made be gayer! Either way you look at it, it only shows how small a grasp people like Himes have for sexuality, gender, and culture.
Posted by: J'MO | Jan 25, 2006 6:44:18 PM