8th Grade Boy Killed for Being Gay.
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Jocelyn Salinas cries after the shooting of Lawrence King. |
15-year-old Lawrence King of Oxnard, CA, was shot Tuesday at his school. He remained on a ventilator after being pronounced brain-dead by two neurosurgeons at St. John’s Regional Medical Center.
Police have not alleged a motive for the shooting, but said there appeared to have been “bad blood” between the teens. Police said a handgun was used in the attack, which occurred with more than 20 other students in the room.
[The Los Angeles Times reports that, “The teenager sometimes wore feminine clothing and makeup, and proclaimed he was gay,” according to fellow students. “He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails — the whole thing,” said Michael Sweeney, 13, an eighth-grader. “That was freaking the guys out.”] King had been under the care of the county foster care system and lived at Casa Pacifica, a nearby center for abused and neglected children, said Steve Elson, the facility’s chief executive.
“We’re are all stunned and it’s just an unspeakable tragedy,” Elson said.
Yet another unspeakable tragedy brought on by homophobia. This is what the attitudes fostered by RRRW Christianity enables. This is what hatred of anything and anybody “different” is doing to our world. This is the environment radicals are fighting so hard to maintain by working against SB 777. An environment where discrimination and intolerance flourish and are legal. One where it’s seemingly OK for kids to be killed just for being different.
What a vile, sick, hateful world.
