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It's not exactly Kristalnacht.
Report for March 20, 2004
According to sodomite propaganda organs, America
is in the midst of an epidemic of "anti-gay violence." We are
told that the opposition of some Americans to sodomite
"marriage" has unleashed a frightening wave of mayhem which
shows no sign of abating. We have highlighted in red the sort of
"anti-gay violence" with which the sodomites regularly pad their
stats in order to claim a shocking upswing in the "percentage"
of such violence and thus shame their opposition into silence. By the way,
threats of physical violence directed toward Wisconsin Christians United
has definitely taken an upturn in recent months. But, of course, that's
different.
Reports of anti-gay violence increase
Patrick Letellier, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network
March 18, 2004, http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?date=2004/03/18/3
Incidents of anti-gay hate violence rose 24 percent in the last six months
of 2003, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down sodomy
laws, according to data released this week by a national anti-violence
project.
The data is "clear evidence of the backlash" against GLBT people
as a result of heightened media attention following the Supreme Court
decision and the controversy over same-sex marriage, according to a press
release by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects (NCAVP), which
tracks anti-gay hate violence.
In some areas, the number of attacks rose even more dramatically, when
compared with data from a year earlier. Incidents increased by 133 percent
in Colorado, 120 percent in Chicago and 43 percent in New York. In San
Francisco, which became ground zero in the struggle over same-sex marriage
rights in February, incidents in the last half of 2003 rose 14 percent.
"This is a stunning increase," Denise de Percin, director of the
Colorado Anti-Violence Program, told the Rocky Mountain News. "The
polarized daily coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues
has raised the profile of our community and galvanized into action the
people who hate us."
Given the current climate of scapegoating gays and lesbians, some people
turn words of hate into action, said Jennifer Rakowski, associate director
of San Francisco's Community United Against Violence. That
action includes anti-gay protests and signs, lawsuits to rescind marriage
rights, political lobbying to pass anti-gay legislation, and
physical violence, she said.
The backlash shows no signs of abating. Rakowski told the Gay.com/PlanetOut.com
Network that when she and her partner got married at City Hall in San
Francisco on March 9, a protester held up a sign
that said, "Gross."
In Multnomah County, Ore., which grants marriage rights to same-sex
couples, county commissioners have reported receiving death threats.
"I hope your whole family is killed. I hope with all my heart that
you're gunned down and killed," said one caller in a phone message to
commissioners.
On Saturday the only gay bar in Newport, R.I., called Castaways, was
vandalized by a man who smashed in the bar's windows with a baseball bat
while yelling anti-gay epithets.
"You can't pass this off as a random act of vandalism,"
Castaways' owner Lionel Pires told the Newport News. "We were singled
out, terrorized."
"Historically, at points in which we move forward toward civil rights
and there is this broad, divisive public debate about gay and lesbian
issues, it can lead to incidents like these," Rakowski said.
"Some people take the words they hear about us and see them as a
license to act out with violence."
NACVP plans to release a full report about 2003 incidents of anti-gay
violence in April.
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