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February
27, 2001
Another Firebell in the Night
By Pastor Ralph Ovadal
"For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall
be done in the dry?"
Luke 23:31 |
Dary
Byczek has escaped the sodomite gulag; well, sort of escaped it. On
February 23, 2001, Mr. Byczek was ordered by County Circuit Judge William
D. Johnston to choose between thirty days in jail or a year's probation
and "anger management classes," paid for with Dary's own money.
At this point, Mr. Byczek is leaning heavily toward the thirty days rather
than voluntarily submitting himself to the state's headshrinkers and his
family to a year of surveillance by various and sundry government
officials.
It could have been worse. Mr. Byczek's four accusers, a collection of
social workers and teachers by trade, lobbied the judge to put the husband
and father of three children away in prison for at least eighteen months
and submit him to "forced psychotherapy."
Dary Byczek is the rural Brooklyn, Wisconsin man who got into hot water
for losing his temper at four lesbians living next door. He says that the
lesbians, among other things, fondled each other in front of his children.
He also says that they video taped his children, a charge they do not
dispute.
One thing led to another; and eventually, a frustrated Dary wrote,
"All lesbians will go to hell," on an old truck which he had
sitting on his own property. At one point, he also drove up the lesbians'
driveway in a vain attempt to talk to them, an attempt they blatantly
exploited to provoke him to lose his temper and shout a couple of
obscenities hooked to the word "lesbians." I have thoroughly
investigated the whole case, including examining the police reports. It is
clearly a situation where an average Joe was set up and eventually
committed the horrendous crime of shouting several choice comments at his
tormentors - not wise, holy, or appropriate; but for a non-Christian,
understandable.
Dary Byczek is not a cruel man, a violent man, or a dangerous man. He is
simply a man who said the wrong word to a bevy of perverted princesses. At
his trial, a parade of Dary Byczek's neighbors took the witness stand to
testify that he is a good neighbor and a good father, in the words of one
man, always ready to help a guy out.
Of course, prior to Dary's vicious act of driving up a neighbor's driveway
to talk and that brutal sign painting incident which repeatedly came up in
court, there was an anonymous tip that the Byczek children were being
abused. A visit by county SS workers completely cleared Dary and his wife
Dawn of the charge.
For his part in the neighborhood spat, Dary Byczek ended up charged with
criminal disorderly conduct and trespass. To this, the Green County
District Attorney added a "hate crime" enhancer which could have
put Dary away for an extra year in jail and cost him thousands of dollars
in fines. The trespass charge was eventually dropped. On January 12, to
the bitter disappointment of the heirs of Sodom and a pack of wolfish
clergymen supporting them, a Green County jury unanimously found Dary
Byczek not guilty of the hate crime charge but handed down a guilty
decision on the disorderly conduct. That decision was a split one. Prior
to the sentencing which was on February 23, the district attorney had Mr.
Byczek's four "victims" fill out statements detailing how they
had been impacted by his actions and what they suggested he should receive
as a sentence. Their remarks are a chilling, insightful warning of things
to come if the Church of Jesus Christ continues to labor under the
delusion that America's New Sodom simply wants to be left alone to
"live and love" in the privacy of their own bedrooms and that
the gay tide can be turned back by random acts of kindness and clinging to
the "just no special rights" strategy. Consider these excerpted
comments from Dary Byczek's four accusers. The written remarks come from
Victim Impact Statements, official court documents filed on January 25,
2001, which have been obtained by Wisconsin Christians United. The
excerpts are verbatim, along with misspellings.
Kathryn Carter: ". . . I suggest a 4 year term with
18 months imprisonment . . ."
Gail Farrington: "I want to believe and trust in the
criminal justice system. I am however aware of the Prejudisim that exists
in all aspects of our society. Even thou all 4 of us are professionals and
work in respected areas - still I wonder if our lifestyle choices will
affect how the judge will make his decisions. . . . We need to look
carefully at people like Dary Byczek. . . . He is a very angry person. . .
. Yes he needs to go to jail. . . . and he should be ordered to do
community service. He should have to . . . write us a formal apology. I
then think the justice system needs to figure out a way to keep a close
eye on him. . . . Hate Crimes should be dealt with very harshly. This man
is capable of murder . . . Maybe forced psychotherapy would help."
Myrna Peterson: "Throughout all of this the theme
from him is that its all our fault - he is the victim. Obviously what has
been tried has not worked, to me he seems like a bomb ready to explode. I
would be strongly favor imprisonment with treatment."
Cheryl Hack: "I think that some type of treatment
dealing with the tolerance of people different than himself. I do favor
imprisonment."
There you have it: demonization, imprisonment, community service, state
surveillance, a public apology/confession, treatment, and even forced
psychotherapy. And, of course, there is that anonymous tip from a
"concerned citizen," perhaps some modern-day Jacobin on a
fledgling committee of public safety, that Dary and his wife are unfit
parents. Does any of this sound familiar? Perhaps it resonates more with
those of German-Jewish background or those with Christian relatives in
China or those who once lived in one of those workers' paradises such as
Cuba or the Soviet Union. In search of some peace and a fresh start, Dary
and his wife have moved from the place they once loved and put it up for
sale. But thus far, there are no takers. Their realtor has told them that
no one seems interested in moving next door to the fab four. Just more of
that homophobia, I suppose. I understand that when caught early, it is
treatable.
As Jesus said, "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear." We
would also do well to "judge righteous judgment" and
"discern the signs of the times." I firmly believe that
Christians should have a heart to preach the gospel to homosexuals and to
rejoice when some are pulled out of the fire to become our brothers and
sisters in Christ. By the same token, it is way past time that Christians,
especially leaders, recognized that the sodomite movement has a fascist
heart and its leaders are looking to put heads on the wall of New Sodom.
Dary Byczek barely kept his due to God's mercy and the hard work of
Wisconsin Christians United. However, such victories are only rearguard
actions which cannot reverse the fortunes of war in the favor of liberty,
morality, and righteousness. That will only occur when God's people hold
to uncompromised positions and take aggressive, unambiguous actions which
reflect His Word and His will. The Church of Jesus Christ must biblically
and publicly confront the sin and frame the issue of homosexuality. We
must use the words God has used, and we must call for the
recriminalization of sodomy in accordance with the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God. Nothing less will turn back hell's legions. If God be for
us, who can be against us; but if we are not for God, who can save us? The
gulag is being built; our chains are being forged. The Dary Byczek case is
one more firebell in the night. Is anyone out there listening?
Ralph Ovadal is pastor of Pilgrims Covenant Church of Monroe, Wisconsin.
He is also the founder and director of Wisconsin Christians United, the
host of "The Heart of the Matter Radio" program, and author of
the book Answering Sodom.
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