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

Tom in Long Beach

Sam is absolutely right. The religio-crazies with their crusades of hate and intolerance have created a social climate where unstable people feel that we, and other minorities, are fair game. It is no different that what the Nazi’s did to the Jews in pre WW II Germany …. they demonized them, and predatory mobs attacked.

We are living in perilous times, with the economy tanking, and financial desperation increasing ….. a ripe environment for the hate merchants looking for scapegoats to vent on. Watch your back. Organize, organize, organize.

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.