I was recently surfing the web when I came across a news article detailing the death of a thirteen year old boy named Jesse Dirkhising. He was raped and murdered by a gay couple who were family friends. His death was a horrible tragedy, and my heart goes out to his family, of course. However, things like this, tragic as they are, happen frequently, and if I mentioned every single one of them on my blog it would explode, and then my head would.
So why am I mentioning this one?
Well, it seems fair and unbiased reporting no longer exists in this country. It seems no one can just write a news story and report the facts. It always has to be a political statement, always has to be about pushing your views on people. And the stupid bastard who covered the story on the website I happened to discover it on has views that are, quite simply, WRONG.
As I read the article, I began to get the impression that the author had something against homosexuals. However, I decided that this was only because I have many homosexual friends and relatives, and am sensitive to the issue. But the feeling only got stronger as I read on, and by the time I finished the article, I had serious doubts about this man's opinions on homosexuality. But I was interested in seeing if I could find out more, about the case and the man in question, so I clicked a link located at the bottom of the page. The article I found was a discussion, of sorts, of the Washington Post's rebuttal of certain accusations hurled at them during the course of the article. In this 'discussion', the author of both the original article and the 'discussion' made several comments that were not only blatantly homophobic, but also really, really, annoying.
So what did I do? I decided to blog about it. I know I don't blog very often, but occasionally I get really annoyed with people, you know? So. Basically, this man indicated in both articles that homosexuals are somehow more likely to be pedophiles and rapists than heterosexuals. He also expressed religious viewpoints, something I believe a good reporter never does. Not everyone who reads your articles believes in your god, asshole. Two comments in the 'discussion', and one in the original article, got to me particularly, and I'd like to share those with you, so you can be mad at him too.
In the original article, he comments that one of the men 'manipulated [the other man] into a homosexual relationship by stating that four characters from the Bible (David and Jonathan and Ruth and Naomi) were homosexual'.
Like people have to be convinced to be gay! Like it's some kind of choice! He makes other comments like that, too, that it's a choice, some kind of fetish. This kind of talk disgusts me.
And the 'discussion'...
For starters, he says 'I...never considered myself "hostile to homosexuals." Not approving of sin does not necessarily make one hostile to sinners.'
WhoaWhoaWhoa Back Up. Sin? Not only are you making homosexuals out to be bad, you're also expressing religious viewpoints, as previously mentioned. BASTARD.
Secondly, and I think worst of all the things he says, he says 'Keep in mind that Jesse's guardians saw nothing wrong with a 13-year-old boy spending weekends with a homosexual couple. That's crazy.'
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AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
Like that's automatically a horrible thing to do? Like they're bad parents for letting their kid be around homosexuals? He also quotes, in the original article, something Jesse's grandmother, Betty Yates, said. She said 'The parents put him in a situation he should not have been in. They knowingly let him spend weekends with the two guys, knowing they were gay. Jesse was a typical 13-year-old good kid. You do not put a 13-year-old child into a situation like that.'
Clearly, that author agrees with her. It just makes me furious that these people assume the fact that these men were violent and twisted had something to do with the fact that they were also gay. Obviously, this was a horrible crime, and of course this boy should not have been hanging out with THESE PARTICULAR men. Does this mean we should start avoiding homosexuals? Of course not! The majority of them are no more likely to harm another human being than you are. And any logical, sane, clear-thinking person would know that.
Best Wishes to anyone not this reporter guy,
1 year ago
