Young, Gay and Murdered

I agree Shante, LGBT is most often misinterpreted and/or misunderstood. Education needs to become a regular part of curriculum at gradeschool levels, which may help prevent tragedies such as this. I am Trans, and speak at local colleges currently on Trans lifestyles, my own story and most importantly, answer many questions i receive which inddicates a suprising level of confusion and ignorance at that age level. I will guess you are T also, i hope you have found peace in your life.

The concept of tolerance is being taken to the extreme these days with openly deviant behavior being allowed, if not encouraged, in public schools. To say that Larry's actions in school were "normal" shows a lack of moral awareness. Unfortunately, kids are influenced by an American mass media that is hell-bent on exposing their audience to the gay agenda. This liberal ideology is sending the wrong message to impressionable youngsters that "wrong is right", while "right is wrong" concerning anti Biblical ethics.

But you can't have it both ways: Encouraging diversity and "unique self-awareness" while not taking responsibility for your own actions as a studdent or your kid's actions at school. It's like a parent who has a kid running or skating through a store or restaurant marked with "wet floor signs" suing the business after the kid takes a dive and gets injured. I don't think that most people blogging about the "homophobia" reaction to the victim fully realize that Oxnard, CA is a small city which used to be a farming community only a generation or two ago. In addition, there is a large naval base in the area, which only exaggerates negative reactions to deviant behavior. A lot of kids don't embrace the politically correct "diversity" shoved down their throats by school administrators! I find it amazing how kids naturally react to unnatural behavior. If the theory of evolution has any merit, then this is a demonstration of "survival of the fittest" in action. Since gay people cannot naturally reproduce, they are an expendable piece of the gene pool.

Or so the argument would go if you want to take a non-Christian position on this issue. Are there truly gay animals?!

The parents can't blame the school if they were aware of the fact that their kids cross-dressed and wore make-up on occassion! This incident reminds me of the Matthew Shepard situation: Both kids hit on male classmates and provoked negative reactions. Am I saying that it is OK to murder them? No. But the negative attention generated from their actions can't be a surprise given the circumstances and the rural/suburban areas in which they lived.

Also, parents should be accountable for their kid's actions, not the school. Teachers are not substitute parents!

BTW: The school is screwed either way: They get sued for discrimination if they don't allow the student to cross-dress or wear make-up, but they also get taken to court for allowing openly gay behavior which results in injury!

Larry brought this on himself. He set out to degrade and humiliate heterosexual boys for his amusement and to increase his popularity, he was on a power trip. And it bit him in the ass. It's a good lesson to all the gays, to leave straight people alone, or else.

I hate to say it, but Larry is responsible for his own death. I personally have nothing against gays. What you do behind closed doors is between you & God. gays want to shove their agenda down our throats. If God made gays, why can't they reproduce? God made Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve. Larry was guilty of sexual harrasment. If he had been a straight guy chasing a girl as such & she complained, he would have been expelled & jailed. Since he was gay, it was ok. The government schools are locked in arms with the gay agenda. One of these days God will settle up with the gay community. It is not for me to judge. I know some gays that are good people. They live their sexuality behind closed doors like I do mine. I do not broadcast the fact that I love the female of the human species. I do not march or protest for straight rights. Gays need to keep to their own kind, lock their bedroom doors & enjoy their weird sex. I don't want to know about it, I do not care. They have no right to shove it down our throats.

Posted by: minister251
You cannot kill what is already dead. Until you you come to Jesus and find out who you really are any man/woman is spiritually dead. You are control by the flesh and the devil control the flesh, which is not you true self. It doesn't make and different man cannot take God out of and schools, because you worship God in spirit and truth. Put in your heart. Teach your children Gods word and his love. The young man wasn't taught the love of God that why he is dead, and the young man that kill him was wrong to take an life, because God judges not we. We are to witness to them about the love of God and how Jesus has already save him from the sin of homosexual demon of Satan. All these comments you need to be taught that only Jesus is the way. If not you are just like the homo you serve the devil sin is sin. Remember God destroy and whole city because homosexual .

What a sad story! I think Brandon was the real victim here. That does not justify his reaction, however, if Brandon were sexually harrassing a female student in the same fashion that he was being harrassed, Brandon would have been punished...SEVERELY! Sexual harrassment is a huge issue in schools these days, and maybe it should be, but it too, should swing both ways. No pun intended there. Ms. Epstein should be ashamed of herself and I agree that she had her own personal agenda and as a public official, her obligation was to protect the rights of all students, not just the one she was able to personally identify with. At the very least, she should be on some sort of leave, while this case is in litigation. She is a risk to students, and I hope in the end that Larry dad gets to the bottom of her involvement.
Homosexuality is for all intents and purposes "new" to society, and it is something that adults struggle to understand, myself included. Children, which everyone is until they reach a minimum of 18, should never, ever be forced to navigate adult games. It is no wonder that kids are having a hard time being successful in school! They are being forced to confront societies dysfunctional garbage! Homosexuality, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, STD's, domestic violence, and the list goes on. These are no longer adult games, as they are being shoved down the throats of our children by all those with the authority, and in the position to protect, including parents, school officials, and Law Enforcement. Shame on all of them involved in this tragendy, this could have been prevented. I sure hope Brandon is tried as a juvenile, he should not be used as an example!
I would be VERY curious to know how often the school officials spoke to the responsible adults in the lives of these 2 boys. Sounds to me like not very!

I am a lesbian and I my partner is a transgender MTF (male to female) and this story is very saddening and very complex. I feel for both boys who have had struggles with life, which we all do. I do not feel Brandon should be charged with first degree murder. Gays, lesbians, fat kids, poor kids, ugly kids are being bullied all the time. This is what needs to stop. These kids snap and kill someone or themselves. If the facts of this article are true, Brandon was being harrassed and tormented by Larry. So much that he snapped! Someone should have put a stop to Larry's behavior and disrespect of others rights. Sexual harrassment....either way is not acceptable. If Larry's behavior was causing this much disruption, his parents should have put a stop to his behavior in school. Why is it the schools responsibilty to control these kids. If my son wanted to wear a superman costume to school and I let him, as an adult I know that the attention he would receive would be negative and harmful. I would let him wear it at home but school has dress code. Just like we have a code at work. I would not let my 13yr old daughter wear makeup and stelletto's and that would include a son that was transgender or gay. We need to be parents and protect our kids. Larry was obviously in need of some help and his parents must have thought all the troubles he had would just go away by switching schools.
Now they want to sue the school to comfort their short comings..so sad.

I am a lesbian and this story is very saddening to me. I feel for both boys who have had struggles with life, which we all do. I do not feel Brandon should be charged with first degree murder. Gays, lesbians, fat kids, poor kids, ugly kids are being bullied all the time. This is what needs to stop. These kids snap and kill someone or themselves. If the facts of this article are true, Brandon was being harrassed and tormented by Larry. So much that he snapped! Someone should have put a stop to Larry's behavior and disrespect of otheres rights. Sexual harrassment....either way is not acceptable.

As a teacher who has dealt with this same issue in the classroom, I am in total sympathy with the family, and, yes, I blame the school. This child's teachers were doing the right thing when they complained that the way the child was dressing was a classroom distraction. It would be the same if he came to school wearing a clown nose or a mask of some kind. Most school policies address "attire or conduct which is disruptive to the classroom and the learning environment". A boy dressed in girl's clothes is disruptive, no matter what the reason or the circumstances. Also, I understand the parents trying to be supportive, but they should have explained to him that everyone is not accepting of his lifestyle and tht he should only share it with friends that were open to him. It seems that this young man needed a firmer hand and guidance as he explored his life choices. We don't live in a perfect world YET, so we still have to be ready and prepared for those who would do harm. It doesn't seem that he really understood the fact that his lifestyle choice was still not a totally accepted "thing". I grieve for him and for his teacher who will probably be haunted that one of her students was so greivously injured in her room.

The first thing to understand, is if we as a society didn't allow a small vocal minority to push its decadent immoral agenda into our daily lives, this would never have happened. The second thing necessary to realize is words are powerful, and need to be used properly. "Gay" means happy. This "victim" was not happy. He was queer. If an appropriate adult had advised the little *** to not act so queer, he would likely still be alive today. As it is, he was permitted to smear and harrass another child to the point the other child snapped. He wasn't a coward. All of the *** using the ACLU and the legal system to protect their "rights are the cowards. Brandon deserves a medal for standing up for his own reputation and getting rid of a problem that no one else was willing to adress. When are we as a nation going to do the same? I don't have anything against homosexuals. I just believe they should be tolerant of the rest of us. They are not normal. We don't need to accept them as normal. Let them do as they may in their own bedrooms, but keep it out of my living room, and the media. It's too bad the little *** had to be killed, but when no responsible adult would deal with the issue, Brandon at least protected his own identy and self worth by taking action. The lesbian principal should be the one on trial for allowing this to escalate to this point by pushing her own gay agenda by permitting the antics of the little *** to go unpunished.

Apparently Larry's parents knew that the school had a dress code - it is then THEIR responsibility to enforce what he wore, BEFORE leaving their house in the morning. Parents are the primary authority for their minor children, and are ultimately responsible (legally and morally) for their actions - as such, there is no basis for a lawsuit against the school district, ON THOSE GROUNDS. However - while there may be official school policy against sexual orientation discrimination - a much larger concern is (or SHOULD be) sexual harassment - in any way, shape, or form - whether opposite sex or same sex. Larry was certainly old enough to understand the inappropriateness of his behavior and comments (whatever his "reason") - he was absolutely guilty of extreme sexual harassment - and the school was negligent in not taking action against him. In that respect, they are liable. When children as young as six years old have been suspended from school for PERCEIVED sexual harassment - it is absolutely mind-boggling to me that there would be even a question of what "category" Larry's behavior fell into, and that it would be tolerated or possibly even encouraged. The "support" of this behavior definitely smacks of a personal and political agenda - now two lives are destroyed (and many others affected) because of it.
Sad, and because preventable , doubly so.