Comments on: In Response To the Murder of Lawrence King, Where Is the Voice of the Church?

By: Brandy

Brandy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:12:26 +0000

This is so true. I’m the President of a G.S.A club at Stony Point High School. I’m an 18 year old Senior, and I can ASSURE you, that it is not a ‘sex club’. How dare he. It is a place where gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals, transgenders, and the straight to come and talk and discuss their feelings freely, since we can’t do it anywhere else without fear. Thank you for this article. This years Day of Silence on April 25th will be dedicated to Lawrence King. To spread the message that ‘Homosexuality is not a disease, Homophobia is.”

By: Jason D

Jason D — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:23:14 +0000

“Wayne said:should this boy be killed.of course not..but timeing for you is not timeing for everyone”

Cop out, cop out, cop out. I’m sorry, but someone obviously taught Brandon, passively or actively, that this was an appropriate response. And that is sick and sad. You’re essentially trying to blame the victim.

What you’re saying is, “I know this was over-reaction, but you gays have to understand that all bets are off if you approach us, it’s perfectly understandable that this kid was gunned down, he should’ve just pretended to be like everyone else.”

If we are all equal, if it doesn’t matter who we are, if we all are deserving of respect, than “NO THANK YOU” is the appropriate response. There are no “you have to understand”s about it. No exceptions. I doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight, if you don’t like someone you don’t kill them. Period.
What you, and others like you, want to say is that your revulsion is so important that it justifies murder. That gays simply shouldn’t talk to anyone if they expect to live.
I don’t know where you live, but it’s certainly not America.

By: Neil H

Neil H — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:33:16 +0000

I know this is late commentary, but the American Family Association has put out an e-mail urging people to keep their children home from school during the Day of Silence, a day that seeks to bring attention to the harassment and bullying of LGBT students in high school. I thought of that, and thought of this post, and thought that it showed that Christian groups are not just refusing to condemn anti-gay violence, but are actively campaigning against those who do.

By: Equality Loudoun » Enabling murder

Equality Loudoun » Enabling murder — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:13:08 +0000

[...] the ignorance and confusion that led a fourteen year old boy to shoot him in the back of the head. Timothy Kincaid asks where they are: I have searched and as best I can find, in the days since King’s murder, the [...]

By: anynomas

anynomas — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:56:58 +0000

After reading the following messages I am outraged. I am a Catholic,but do not belive in predjudices. This boy did nothing wrong. The one who loaded the gun and murdered him did. Now it is ok to shoot people for being different??? Are you telling me the murder didn’t know right from wrong??? Everyone should be able to live in this country free from predjudices. Everyone deserves to be loved,and love in return. Our soldiers are dying in IRAQ/AFGANISTAN so we can live free,and make our own comments and decisions. But when someone takes it upon themselves to take anothers life,because they don’t like that he wears lipstick thats sick and wrong. I am proud to say I believe in God,God does not like hate and the people that do these things and spew hateful words againist any race,any sex will have to answer to the maker. When will we just like people for who they are and stop defining them by there race and sexual orientation? Where they live,what car they drive. God bless the families in this tradgedy. And may there son live an eternal life with God.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:10:03 +0000

A clear reason why I abandoned churches and religions altogether. They are all fake. If Jesus came back he’d tell it to their faces! And BTW how is this religious hate different from Islam??

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:07:16 +0000

It’s been the Law since the time of Moses, and 4000 years later we are still finding excuses to ignore it: Thou shalt not kill.

I say this every time I hear about religiously-motivated hate crimes: Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” How bloody hard is it?!

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:42:23 +0000

Wayne, a boy dressing as a girl isn’t harming anyone and has a right to do so. Expressing an interest in someone isn’t pushing your sexuality on them, girls put up with this all the time and boys have no special right to be excluded from it either. If a boy is not interested in another gay boy he can simply make this clear and that’s as far as it needs to go.

By: wayne

wayne — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:51:57 +0000

its to hard to understand when a boy gos to school wearing eye shadown lipstick, high heals, and jewlery, and tells another young boy he has a crush on him, it seams that gay people expect that to be answered with a ” no thank you ” but most people , especialy young adolecent boys are not able to except that kind of sexual shock……they say we need to understand gays, but gays need to understand that there is a time and place for pushing youyr sexualty on someone…….guys know not to push themselves on girls untill there older, gays have to understand that just because you have come to the realisation that your gay dosent mean its ok to to dress like a grl.and try to get other boys to have a sexual relationship with you.should this boy be killed.of course not..but timeing for you is not timeing for everyone

By: Suricou Raven

Suricou Raven — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:11:49 +0000

I am not sure how much of the connection is actually religion teaching people to hate gays, and how much is people who hate gays turning to religion. If someone says “Gays are child-raping freaks and I want to keep them from interacting with normal people,” its fairly obvious they are full of hate and potentially dangerous. But if the same person goes to a church they can reword their view into “God says homosexuality is wrong, and I want to serve God.” It makes no practical difference to their actions, but it sounds much more respectable. Even better, it lets them feel they are rightous – that they are on the side of Good, fighting the moral fight for – as one anti-gay organisation I know of puts it – ‘Faith, Family and Freedom’ against the Homosexual Agenda.

So it could be that religion causes anti-gay feeling, or it could just be used to add legitimacy and remove guilt to views people already have. I dont know which way round it is.