I miss you every day.

I relive with horror that night when you were beaten by people who believed the negative stereotypes and purposeful misinformation spread by religious leaders and politicians to scare people to Jesus or to get votes.

I remember the moment when the Doctor told me you were gone.

We were out that night to have a dinner and then some dancing at a club to put some cheer in your life after you were dismissed from your teaching job because the spineless administrators, rather than defend you as the good teacher and person you were, gave into the hate talk that you, and all Gay teachers only worked in the classroom so that they could be closer to their prey.

It’s what they heard on talk radio and from the pulpit.

But between the restaurant and the club we were jumped, and as they beat you to the ground your murderers yelled that you, a veteran, did not deserve to live in this country, and the rights your siblings, raised by the same parents,  had were their rights as Americans while your having them bestowed on you special rights. Your murderers listened to those pastors who demand that the government eliminate you by putting all Gays to death, but were never denounced by the good Christians. They now want everyone to be civil and speak nice, but they ignore the damage they have done, and lives lost because of their words. They want us to just move on without apology from them.

And here you lie.

I miss you.

 

Rick Brattin, a Republican lawmaker in the Missouri House of Representatives, recently claimed:

“When you look at the tenets of religion, of the Bible, of the Qu’ran, of other religions, there is a distinction between homosexuality and just being a human being.”

People have no compunction with shooting at non-human things, so, apparently hunting season on Gays is open

Pastor Steven Anderson, of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, informed his congregation in a sermon,

“Turn to Leviticus 20:13 because ‘If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them’. And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS. It was right there in the Bible all along — and they’re out spending billions of dollars in research and testing. It’s curable — right there. Because if you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant.”

He also pointed out that if this were done quickly, there would be no AIDS by Christmas.

Brainerd Baptist Church Senior Pastor Robby Gallaty, told his large Tennessee congregation that Christians should never stop discriminating against homosexuals, and that,

“God said that the sins of the people had infected the very land in which they live. So what happens to people who engage in this activity, this sexual immoral activity? Go to Leviticus 20, God gives us the punishment for engaging in these sins… ‘If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing. They must be put to death. And their blood is on their own hands.’

Another pastor, Pastor Curtis Knapp of the New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas said.

“We punish pedophilia, we punish incest, we punish polygamy and various things. It’s only homosexuality that is lifted out as an exemption.”

When he was questioned on the radio about comments he made that advocated that Christians should kill Gays, he replied,

“No, I’m saying the government should. They won’t, but they should.”

Kevin Swanson, the far-right pastor and host of the “Generations Radio” program, who also advocated that the government put people to death held a conference, “National Religious Liberties Conference” in Des Moines, Iowa, during the long presidential campaign season.

In his introduction to Ted Cruz, who was a featured speaker, he included in his remarks,

 “Yes, Leviticus 20:13 calls for the death penalty for homosexuals, yes! His words, not mine!. “I…am willing…to go…to jail! These are the people with the sores, the gaping sores! The sores that are pus-y! And gross! And people are coming in and carving happy faces on the sores! …Don’t you dare carve happy faces on open pus-y sores!”

Phillip Kayser was among the several speakers who joined Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal at that conference, and had distributed his pamphlet, “Is The Death Penalty Just?,” which supported the death penalty for crimes including homosexuality among the offenses deserving of capital punishment.

He has said,

“God revealed that the homosexual act is a civil crime, and it just so happens that He revealed that the homosexual act as a civil crime deserves the death penalty.”

In spite of this statement and others expressing his view, when he ran for president, he had endorsed Ron Paul for president and Paul’s campaign proudly welcomed the endorsement.

And remember, this is the kind of literature being promoted at a “religious liberty” conference.

In an interview a leader in the Salvation Army was involved in this radio interview exchange:

Serena Ryan: “If I go and I read that [Salvation Army Handbook of Doctrine], and I connect with my [homo]sexuality, then that says, according to the Salvation Army, that I deserve death. How do you respond to that, as part of your doctrine?”
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Andrew Craibe a Salvation army official: “Well, that’s a part of our belief system.”

Ryan: “So we should die.”

Craibe: “Well, we have an alignment to the Scriptures, but that’s our belief.”

The Salvation Army walked that back later saying that the scripture referred to actually is interpreted that all sinners die a death of separation from God. Not, however, they did not say that was not what they support, only that there are many interpretations i would seem to leave room for this death to Gays one.

Scott Esk, a Republican Tea Party candidate in Oklahoma, posted on Facebook,

 “I think we would be totally in the right to do it (execute Gays for being Gay), I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

When pressed, Esk added:

“I never said I would author legislation to put homosexuals to death, but I didn’t have a problem with it.”

Matt McLaughlin I an attorney from Huntington Beach who spent $200 to propose a ballot measure, the “Sodomite Suppression Act”, that authorizes the killing of Gays and Lesbians by “bullets to the head,” or “any other convenient method.”

And this year the Columbus, Ohio, Police had to investigate threats to the Columbus Pride Parade and Festival. is set to take place this weekend in with the parade taking place through the city on Saturday.

Organizers received a homophobic threat stating,

 “I hope this event turns out like the Boston Marathon a few year’s [sic] back. All fag’s should be killed or at least relocated.”

After the Pulse shooting, a preacher in Northern California, Pastor Roger Jimenez from Verity Baptist Church delivered an sermon praising the brutal massacre in which he told his congregation they “shouldn’t be mourning the death of 50

“People say, like: ‘Well, aren’t you sad that 50 sodomites died? Here’s the problem with that. It’s like the equivalent of asking me — what if you asked me: ​’Hey, are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?”

But, he didn’t stop there.

”The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die. The tragedy is — I’m kind of upset that he didn’t finish the job!”

While running for president, Ben Carson even said that to force a Christian baker to make a wedding cake for a gay couple “is really not all that smart because [the baker] might put poison in that cake.”

I do not condone the shooting of Representative Scalise, but he played into deliberate misrepresentations of Gay people and their desire to form long lasting commitments with the one they love when he ,authored constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality. When in June 2008 he wanted to amend Constitution to define traditional marriage, and in 2013 to protect anti-same-sex marriage opinions as free speech no matter how false, bizarre, and exaggerated. He wanted to give unfettered power for people to speak without any regulation or calls to correct falsehoods. (Sep 2013). He also wanted the individual states to be able to deny citizens the universal rights the Constitution guarantees all citizens.

His proposal stated,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission by the Congress:

Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.

Ted Cruz supported him by stating,”

“I support traditional marriage. The federal government has tried to re-define marriage, and to undermine the constitutional authority of each state to define marriage consistent with the values of its citizens. The Obama Administration should not be trying to force gay marriage on all 50 states.”

And now after the shooting, and ignoring such hate speech as exampled above, and with many examples of where hate speech was put into action by those speaking them and those who assumed they have permission to act, knowing now that what the result of it can be, they want their victims to just shut-up, without apology for damage both direct and indirect, or resolve to help undo or prevent any damage past, present, or future.

Be the better people.

Forgiveness comes through confession and then repentance, quite often in the form of actions to offset the damage done or restitution.

At least apologize and state that this will end.