Accessorising crime
It has long seemed that the homophobes of the world like to draw a fine distinction between gay-bashing and other forms of assault, battery, and homicide. Gay-bashing, you see, may be deplorable, but it's perfectly understandable. Ya sure.
Jacob Robida may have done the world a favour by blasting the living crap out of the argument. When a homophobic gay basher on the run spreads the joy by shooting a cop and, as it now seems, a woman he had conned into coming with him, it becomes nearly impossible to sustain that miserable distinction.
The archbishop, MassNews, and their ilk recklessly encourage hatred of the most convenient difference within reach, because such people can exist only by fostering hatred of difference. Inevitably, their message enters the mind of hostile losers who take it to its literal conclusion. At that point, the hate-mongers want to retreat in righteous silence from the consequences of their actions.
I wonder if AG Reilly would have the stones to suggest our institutional homophobes might be accessories to this rampage. Never mind...no cojones.
It does seem like time to draw another line: between Point A (the hate mongering) and Point B (the assaults and the homicides), and draw it in indelible ink.
Jacob Robida may have done the world a favour by blasting the living crap out of the argument. When a homophobic gay basher on the run spreads the joy by shooting a cop and, as it now seems, a woman he had conned into coming with him, it becomes nearly impossible to sustain that miserable distinction.
The archbishop, MassNews, and their ilk recklessly encourage hatred of the most convenient difference within reach, because such people can exist only by fostering hatred of difference. Inevitably, their message enters the mind of hostile losers who take it to its literal conclusion. At that point, the hate-mongers want to retreat in righteous silence from the consequences of their actions.
I wonder if AG Reilly would have the stones to suggest our institutional homophobes might be accessories to this rampage. Never mind...no cojones.
It does seem like time to draw another line: between Point A (the hate mongering) and Point B (the assaults and the homicides), and draw it in indelible ink.
posted by Uncle | 15:20
1 Comments:
Just so. The local hate sites have been ranting their BS rants about how he was a solo loony. As usual, friends and parents say to the press and on his terrifying MySpace site that they were totally surprised.
Then again, even Jeffrey Dahmer's neighbors initially said the murderous cannibal seemed like a nice enough guy.
Fact is that while we can't prevent all such crazies from attacking the people they hate in stereotype, no one should encourage them. Those alleged pro-lifers who published the details on abortion doctors, calling them murders who should be punished crossed the line big time.
That hating-the-sin fantasy is far too thin a fabric for anyone claiming to be a Christian to don. Feeding the need to hate by the worst of us has effects that return to their doorsteps.
Likewise, the worst anti-gay speech, sites and even sermons, foster the attitude that somehow a whole class of harmless citizens are less than human, less than we. It's no leap, just a small tip to acting then as a vengeful angel of perceived morality, replete with hatchet and pistol.
End of my rant.
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