"Mom, I understand if you don't want to love me anymore"

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This is what Sean Kennedy said to him mother when he told her he was gay. Sean was killed about a month ago outside a bar. His killer uttered anti gay epithets both before and after the attack. Now his mother, who decided to still love him, is left fighting for a hate crimes bill in South Carolina. Yet some, both here and in Washington, feel we don't need a hate crimes law. How many 20 year olds have to be burried? How many have to have their parents take them up on Sean's offer?

Don't we, and society, deserve better?

http://www.q-notes.com/top2007/top01_061607.html

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Kennedy was punched in the face and knocked to the ground as he was exiting a Greenville bar on May 16. When his head hit the pavement, he was fatally wounded. An investigation into the crime continues, including a probable motive that Kennedy’s killer uttered anti-gay comments either before or after the attack.