When I was a child growing up, if a Black man did not avert his eyes when a White woman walked by that Black man very often was set upon by angry White men and then savagely beaten or even killed. If you haven’t read “To Kill a Mocking Bird” do so, because that is the way it was in the 1950 and early 60s in many places in America.

Gay men are attacked by “straight” men very often for similarly irrational allegations. More often that not, as in the case with Black men and White women, the over-the-top reaction is just an excuse to do violence to another human being — which some miscreants feel they must do in order to compensate for their own inadequacies as men. The alleged “flirtations” are often fictitious, but when they are not, they are frequently elevated to an exaggerated threat that speaks more about the mental instability of the offended than it does to the so-called offender.

Ironic isn’t that we haven’t really changed so very much? Similar villains, just different prey. This is the same insecure, violent mob of misanthropes which organized religion and right-wing politicians breed like pit bulls. To that end, they later cash in on them by exploiting these mindless, vicious mongrels for both profit and political advancement.

There shall never be peace in the world as long as brutality remains a rite of passage into manhood and religion is thought of as an acceptable substitute for reason. Those two things will ultimately destroy all of humankind unless they are unequivocally renounced.

© “Bud” E. Lewis Evans

Mr. Willock put a lot of effort into following his prey. Very sad. I agree
with Sam. Our legislators need to rise above the fear of religion and give our minority the rights we deserve. Every
time a Hate based law gets passed it is giving these people implied permission.
Like Prop H8, and recent anti adoption laws. All of the silly man / woman marriage amendments to state constitutions.

Tom in Long Beach

Omar Willock, may have stabbed the victim, but organized religions, are his accomplices, aiding and abetting him and all other perpetrators of gay hate crimes of brutal beatings and murder, is without doubt

One of the many purposes of religious institutions is to promote hate, fear, and intolerance, they demand complete control of all their members thoughts, and demand full submission.

All religions that speak of and condone the teaching that any human being or group of people are less than they are, or portray other people as evil, wicked, immoral, etc. are totally complicit in the beatings and murder of gay victims, guns and knives don’t have minds of their own, they don’t do the killing, the words that provoke the actions of the perpetrator do, look at the holocaust.