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From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Turning the other cheek
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Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 03:49:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 15 03:49:00 1985
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Reply-To: laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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The thing that scares me is this attitude that ``homophobia'' in any
way is responsible for the killing.  The world is full of people who
hate homosexuals, but most of them don't beat people to death.  Can't
you see that whatever caused those people to beat to death a Gay man
was something very, very sick about these people?  When I lived in
Toronto, a Chinese labourer was beaten to death not 3 blocks away from
where I lived.  This was blamed on ``anti-chinese'' prejudice.

Don't worry about those kids much.  Next year they are due to release
the boy who raped, tortured and murdered a friend of mine while he was
16.  He's been in jail 4 years now, and is getting time off for good
behaviour.  All I can say is that I am damn glad I am not living in
Toronto.  

It is very sad that brutes who would beat to death a total stranger on
whim exists.  But I am not going to let this sadness keep me from
seeing that if you release such people back onto the streets in four
years you may be sentencing some unknown Gay man to death.  Don't
all the non-violent members of society have thhe right to better protection?
Or is killing people at semi-random believed just because homophobia is
everyone's problem?

Disgusted, and frightened for a lot of friends,
-- 
Laura Creighton		
sun!l5!laura		(that is ell-five, not fifteen)
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