Gay Slaying Stuns Iowa Town

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/032905iowa.htm

People who knew Jason Gage say he had a rare ability to energize any room, made friends easily and would do anything for someone in need, like the time he gave a drunk stranger $46 for a taxi ride home.

The 29-year old waiter, who dreamed of one day styling hair in a big city salon, was also openly gay and, friends say, a persistent and flamboyant flirt.

Gage was found dead two weeks ago in his downtown apartment, bludgeoned with a beer bottle and stabbed in the neck with a shard of glass. Within hours, police had arrested 23-year-old Joseph Lawrence and charged him with first-degree murder.

and of course, they're blaming the victim

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. This is why

I'm not sorry that fucker Falwell is ill.

[AutumnMist]

2. May Our Little Slanted View Of This World Change To Accept All People

:cry:

[jimquilty]

3. and guess what

our fine legislature has done to acknowledge the situation -- why try to force through an amendment to the constitution banning same sex marriages. We have a bunch of "compassionate conservatives" in this state.

[adwon]

4. ?

Let me get this right...

Witnesses say they saw the two bar hopping, including a visit to a gay bar, and somehow the killer found murder an acceptable response to an alleged pass?

I'm a straight man, so I find that logic really chilling. Want to know why? There's a lot of women in this world who are tired of moronic pickup lines. Personally, I'd prefer a friendly, neighborhood 'Go to hell, jackass' to being beaten to death.

This shit makes no more sense than the Son of Sam claiming a dog told him to go kill people.

[davidinalameda]

5. and unfortunately, the defense attorney will hammer home

the "fact" that the victim might have hit on the killer

can you imagine a straight woman using the same defense--she would be laughed out of the courtroom and found guilty before you could say boo

[w13rd0]

6. BINGO! You hit the nail on the head...

...the "gay panic" defense should result in immediate conviction of a degree worse than what was being prosecuted. It's saying that the appropriate and expected response to an unwanted advance is murder. So the next time some old Republican woman tries to hit on me while I'm fixing her computer, I can go into "straight panic" and knife her to death. I've no longer the words to express my feelings on the course this nation is taking.

[xchrom]

7. i hate it when this shit happens.

that defence thinks cutting the kids throat is acceptable{re:panic defence} at all is grotesque.