I don’t recall seeing a thread about this earlier, but here’s an interesting article on evangelical Christianity and a gaybashing incident that happened in Seattle last year.
Frankly, it’s nothing you really haven’t seen before, but it’s an interesting read and serves as another illustration about how the principle of “Love the sinner, hate the sin” often just turns into plain old “Hate the faggot.”
Read this over the weekend. I usually don’t care for The Stranger’s long features, but this one was pretty good: even-handed and insightful. The worst part of the story, I thought, was how the one crackpot defense attorney tried to put the victim’s personal life on trial. Nobody deserves to be attacked and slashed with broken bottles. Period.
Oh, and for the record, given that the article ends with “verdict expected any minute,” all three defendants were convicted (link requires free registration).
Sorry for the double post, but I think it’s worth pointing out that the three attackers were convicted on the harassment charge but acquitted of assault.
To be honest, it sounds like they were a bunch of young guys who had had scrapes with the law already. I don’t know, I can’t see it being so much the religion as a bunch of angry young guys who found a “convenient target.”
Religiously motivated or not, it’s still heinous and I’m glad to hear they will be serving time.
Sometimes I can’t believe that gays haven’t become one hell of a lot more violent in a vigilante sort of way. And I hate to admit it, but it’s almost disappointing.
I don’t think that’s exclusive to being gay. If someone came at me with a knife or a broken bottle, I’d probably get some violent tendencies quite quickly myself.