Archive for November, 2011

Brandon McInerney was sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing Larry King, a 15-year-old classmate disliked by McInerney for being gay. Why he was only charged with second degree murder (“murder that is not premeditated or planned in advance”) is beyond me seeing how he brought a gun to school to execute a kid by aiming the gun at his head from behind and pulling the trigger. But naturally American conservatives have other issues with the case.

Larry King was taunted for being an effeminate kid, for not fitting into the gender role society had prepared for him. But rather than giving in to the bullies by hiding who he was he stood up to the homophobes. Whenever they made fun of him he blew them kisses or made comments about how cute they are. Unable to cope with that much self-confidence McInerney went to school officials to whine about King’s fake-flirting. When the school told McInerney that it was King’s civil right to explore his gender identity McInerney apparently decided to take the problem into his own hands.

But conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, a star of American right-wing media, thinks you can’t blame McInerney. He believes it’s ridiculous that the school would say that “He [King] had the right to explore whether at some point he was going to need a chopadickoffamy operation.” And that McInerney had to shoot King was just inevitable according to Limbaugh, the ones to blame here, he says, are the people pushing the “gay agenda” at schools because if King would have received a “traditional education” thus not daring to be openly gay he wouldn’t be dead now.

And Limbaugh is not alone: Bryan Fischer, leader of the “American Family Association” agrees that the world would be a safer place if the queers would just stop acting, well…. queer. Because it’s never the people who shoot, stab, burn & torture gays, lesbians and transgender people (which seems to have become a national sport) who are wrong, it’s the victims who don’t hide who they are

Just like all the black Americans who wouldn’t be dead now if they would have just learnt to be proper white people before they were hanged by mobs for being not like everyone else.

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…to get charged with sexual assault. Not in a country where 14-year-olds are the largest group of “sex offenders”. Three young kids in Wisconsin caught playing doctor last year have unintentionally landed themselves, their families and some Grant County officials in a federal civil rights case sure to raise questions and outrage.

The parents of a 6-year-old boy who faced charges of first-degree sexual assault have sued Grant County officials who investigated and filed the juvenile petition. The charges came after a 5-year-old girl’s mother suspected that play had gone too far. According to the lawsuit, in the fall of last year the boy was playing with the girl and her 5-year-old brother when the mother arrived. The children said they had been playing doctor. Their mother told investigators she suspected the boy had put his finger in the girl’s anus. The lawsuit states that prior to the play date, the boy had medical conditions that required rectal examinations. Read on…

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