soap box derby!
Jun. 21st, 2007 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gfrancieHappy Thursday my little cupcakes.
So there has been an important link making the rounds on the internet. (beware it is pretty damn intense and graphic) It is about a deeply scary/nasty hate crime -ah forget hate crime, we are talking a horrifyingly nasty murder of a man thought to be gay. He was tortured and killed. It wasn't in Iran or Saudi Arabia where they do that kind of thing as some kind of "sport". It was in Indiana.
The people who killed this man are using the defense "he was gay".
Ohnotheydi'n't
And until recently there hasn't been much press about this crime.
Some things I am not overtly political/loudmouth about because what might be my flavor of tea isn't someone else's and and so on. (which is fine and dandy if we are talking about stuff like economic policy, public transport development and zoning laws) But when it comes to groups of folk being marginalized, it bothers me. A lot. Especially when it causes other people to think it is alright to harm them or deny them basic human rights and if they live in the United States -denying gay people (or anyone else for that matter) the pursuit of happiness.
Homosexuality isn't a disease. It isn't a mental affliction. It isn't evil. It isn't immoral. And it isn't a reason to justify killing a human.
Hey by the way, it is Gay Pride. Let's support our gay/lesbian/trans friends, siblings, children, relations, and co-workers. It takes a fair amount of courage to be yourself when there are people out there who don't want you to love or live just like the rest of the world.
So there has been an important link making the rounds on the internet. (beware it is pretty damn intense and graphic) It is about a deeply scary/nasty hate crime -ah forget hate crime, we are talking a horrifyingly nasty murder of a man thought to be gay. He was tortured and killed. It wasn't in Iran or Saudi Arabia where they do that kind of thing as some kind of "sport". It was in Indiana.
The people who killed this man are using the defense "he was gay".
Ohnotheydi'n't
And until recently there hasn't been much press about this crime.
Some things I am not overtly political/loudmouth about because what might be my flavor of tea isn't someone else's and and so on. (which is fine and dandy if we are talking about stuff like economic policy, public transport development and zoning laws) But when it comes to groups of folk being marginalized, it bothers me. A lot. Especially when it causes other people to think it is alright to harm them or deny them basic human rights and if they live in the United States -denying gay people (or anyone else for that matter) the pursuit of happiness.
Homosexuality isn't a disease. It isn't a mental affliction. It isn't evil. It isn't immoral. And it isn't a reason to justify killing a human.
Hey by the way, it is Gay Pride. Let's support our gay/lesbian/trans friends, siblings, children, relations, and co-workers. It takes a fair amount of courage to be yourself when there are people out there who don't want you to love or live just like the rest of the world.
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*sigh*
Date: 2007-06-21 05:42 pm (UTC)Gosh, what IS a reason to justify killing someone else? Aside from self-defense, I can't think of one.
(I haven't even read the link yet and I'm angry!)
Re: *sigh*
Date: 2007-06-21 06:13 pm (UTC)