Lured Into a Trap, Then Tortured for Being Gay NYT's

[rasputin1952]

Sorry if this was posted already:

He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture — he was sodomized, burned and whipped.

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All punishment, the police said Friday, for being gay.

There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23 years old and calling themselves the Latin King Goonies, the police said. Before setting upon their 30-year-old victim, they had snatched up two teenage boys whom they beat, the police said — until the boys — one of whom was sodomized with a plunger — admitted to having had sex with the man.

The attackers forced the man to strip to his underwear and tied him to a chair, the police said. One of the teenage victims was still there, and the “Goonies” ordered him to attack the man. The teenager hit him in the face and burned him with a cigarette on his nipple and penis as the others jeered and shouted gay slurs, the police said. Then the attackers whipped the man with a chain and sodomized him with a small baseball bat.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/nyregion/09bias.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB

[MineralMan]

1. Just disgusting. The punishment for such acts should be

severe.

[rasputin1952]

2. I have tried to be a follower of the Law my entire life...

but there are crimes which should not go unpunished w/o a sense of justice. Those that would inflict pain upon others like his need x4 what they did to these people.

[terrya]

3. You know who bares responsibility for this?

The mormon church. The catholic church. Pat Robertson. The National Organization for Marriage. Focus on the Family. The American Family Association. Every anti-gay spokesperson, every anti-gay organization who forments hate and lies against gay people. This heinous, horrible event is the final result of that hate.

I know some people here are religious. I know what I said is the proverbial "broad brush" against some churches. If my comment is deleted, so be it. But words have consequences. Dammit, they do.

I'm not in a mood to be tolerant to people like the Pope and the leader of the mormon church. Not after the past few weeks. Not after this horrific story. I'm...we're...sick and goddamit tired of being the victims of hate.

My thoughts are with the victims of this inhumanity.