Reply #71: What a bullshit argument.

[kevinbgoode]

Is there some reason why you have to reduce the humanity of gay citizens to the "they have to live with the reality of abuse because they choose to be gay" mentality?

What a load of crap. Violence might be pointless, but it happens - and it happens to the extreme. How many people are beaten to death or tortured because they are Irish in this country? Because they had a cigarette? Are you denying the reported hours of beatings in some cases where the corpse continued to be attacked and the only excuse was that the person was gay?

That isn't merely getting into a "bar fight" because someone is bald. And that isn't the way things happen in these cases.

I have news for you - one case of assault IS worse when the group of perpetrators continue butchering and torturing and battering and beating the body long after the man is DEAD. Or hang him on the damn fence post to die - ever hear of that happening to someone in this country because he lit a cigarette?

I wish to God I have never put this on the forum. I am sick and tired to being treated as if my life is less valuable throughout the entire history of this damn country and then have people like you trivialize that history as if you don't have any responsibility for that damn behavior.

Apparently, only those who are members of the persecuting group understand the concept of "justice"...and they need the freedom to continue that persecution.