Young, Gay and Murdered

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  • Posted By: revmark @ 07/21/2008 4:03:20 PM

    Well, I have said what I can, to try to educate you all according to experience, and research, so it is up to you what you do with it. There will be more Larrys, and more Brandons out there, and so there are ways to prevent this from happening again. And how can you put the blame on the parents of Larry, when he was taken from his parents, and put into an environment that encouraged his effiminacy, instead of trying to encourage him to be what he was created as, a male. And I believe Larry's father, that it was just a show for Larry. And it was encouraged by that woman who was a lesbian. I need to contact the churches in California, and have the pastors encourage any parents that have children who go to the school where she is now principal, to pull their children from that school, before their children all of a sudden, because of her, decide to turn out like Larry.
    God Bless

  • Posted By: mykolas1@aol.com @ 07/21/2008 3:48:00 PM

    As a gay man, I expect that about half of those that are spewing anti-gay comments here, will in the not too distant future, come out of their own closets as gay or lesbian. It happens frequently that those who are closeted go into complete dential and are overtaken with anger and a "holier than though attitude," before ultimately accepting who they are. Mark my word.

    • Posted By: Bigben08 @ 07/21/2008 3:54:48 PM

      I don't think so pal.

  • Posted By: revmark @ 07/21/2008 3:28:18 PM

    But those penguins do not mate together, please do your research. The males have to watch the eggs and hatch them and raise them until the mothers who are off gathering food come back to feed the babies. Stop making excuses. The Emperor Penguin, to which you are referring, go through that cycle every year. The males all gather in one big group for warmth. Has nothing to do with sex. The next time the show comes on Animal Planet, watch the whole show, not just the parts that you try to use to justify that way of life. Kind of like what people do with the Bible, they twist it around to suite their own sick ideas. Show me 2 males in the animal kingdom that mate together, other then amoeabas. It doesn't happen. It is not natural. Even when you see 2 male dogs go at it with each other, it is not for procreation, it is because it is a habit, because one is trying to show dominance over the other. Has nothing to do with sex. They mate with females.

    • Posted By: shauniedarko @ 07/21/2008 3:42:50 PM

      http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/06/the_gay_animal_kingdom.php?page=all&p=y

      Enjoy being wrong.

  • Posted By: revmark @ 07/21/2008 2:37:36 PM

    Ok, something is wrong here. A kid is just barely through puberty and knows he is homosexual? No! You don't grow up homosexual, you choose to be homosexual. Sometimes it comes from not having a strong father figure, and sometimes it comes from them being molested. When I was 8 years old, my best friend was teaching me things, that until i got older, I didn't realize an 8 year old should not have known. And then around the age of 13, I was molested by a man in the neighborhood, who paid me to come to his house to help him with house work, until he got me into his attack. I was too scared to do anything but let him continue, because he was much bigger then me. I started doing things with some of my friends, and ended up into it fully, first by force, then by choice. But I knew nothing about any sexual feelings towards boys or girls, until I was around 17, when I knew, I was wrong with my choice. I then accepted Christ, and I wasn't able to stop, until He helped me to stop. Stop making excuses for people who choose a perverted lifestyle, like I did. There was no excuse for what I did. And if children as young as 12 are claiming to be homosexual, then that should raise a red flag for the adults, that someone has been touching them in ways they should not have been touched. Remember, homosexuals cannot reproduce, they can only recruit. If you read the Nambla (North Atlantic Man Boy Love Association) magazine, you will see that the pedophiles motto is, Sex before 8, or it's too late. After becoming a minister, I started researching pedophiles, to know what makes them tick, by going into chat areas where they openly talked, and they could care less about age, as long as they can have, just one more boy, to play around with. And they passed around pictures, and I saw a picture of a 35 year old man having sex with a 3 year old boy, which made me cry, which sent me on the war path, to finding and getting any pedophile I could arrested, and those who sent around child porn on the internet.
    This is why I warn parents to make absolutely sure that you know who your children are hanging around with, because it may not be an adult making sexual contact with them, but a young person that was molested by an adult. Face facts, you are not born that way. If you were, it would be unjust for God to call it an abomination. Parents, stay in control of your children, lest you have to bring them to someone like me to help them get out of what a stranger may have gotten them into.

    • Posted By: shauniedarko @ 07/21/2008 3:22:40 PM

      I feel very bad for you. You believe homosexuality is a choice because of your own confusion. You also mistake pedophilia for homosexuality, and they're just not the same thing. You have obviously had a lot of bad things happen to you, but unfortunately you are allowing your past hardships to cloud the issue. To make it worse, you are attempting to pass off misinformation as fact. I'm sorry you had such a hard childhood, but your assumptions are very wrong.

  • Posted By: kiaramanning @ 07/21/2008 3:13:29 PM

    Revmark, in the work place do people get murdered for sexual harassment? No.

  • Posted By: revmark @ 07/21/2008 3:13:19 PM

    You need to take that up with God. I don't answer for Him, I am just His messenger.
    And if the teachers weren't able to get any satisfactory answers, what makes you think Brandon would?
    Larry played a game, and lost, because he pushed someone until they took matters into their own hands. Again, in the workplace, what Larry did to Brandon would be considered sexual harassment, and then Larry brings embarrasment to his little brother. I still would like to know who messed with Larry, to make him head in that direction.

  • Posted By: zanax @ 07/21/2008 3:03:43 PM

    The trouble boy came from a history of natural parents being unable to take care of him and that is typically poor people, especially the unemployed and then put into a sad typical situation where the system did not care enough for him. Now, if you want examples, we are more than willing to give. But most know this to be true by reading them in the newspaper. The point is that WE CARE MORE ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION than we care about people like the homeless with children who experience much more discrimination than any other groups. Movies and TV are now driven in that emphasis and not in the injustices done to poor families..

  • Posted By: revmark @ 07/21/2008 3:03:13 PM

    Hello, by concentrating on his flamboyancy, it will take you to the reason he was murdered. No one had a right to murder him, but on the other hand, look hos he was treating the other students. In the work place, that would be considered sexual harassment. And this teacher that kept encouraging him should lose her job, because whe encouraged him to be as flamboyant as he wanted to be, and to act the way he did with the other students, which got him killed. So that makes her an accomplice.

  • Posted By: Sox575 @ 07/20/2008 5:21:14 AM

    I can't believe that some people are actually trying to blame the victim here! If the shooter was so traumatized about being "taunted" by King why didn't he go and tell the teachers or the principal he was being harassed? There might be equality and expression issues that are respected in schools, but sexual harassment is NOT accepted regardless if it's coming from a heterosexual or a homosexual person.

    • Posted By: jaynewsweek9 @ 07/21/2008 3:00:11 PM

      thats my point. why brandon didnt approach any authorities who might have help him from being harrassed by larry? article doesnt say anything about his efforts to save himself. if he didnt approach any teacher, how teachers are going to know? he does seem to have criminal mindset then he just decided to go ahead and kill larry.

  • Posted By: enGAYge @ 07/20/2008 5:01:52 AM

    Do you know why issues of sexuality, at such a young age, can have heartbreaking consequences? Because this Religious Right, HOMOPHOBIC SOCIETY keeps telling people that it is wrong to be who you are. That's why!!!

    • Posted By: truluv2thee @ 07/20/2008 5:31:35 PM

      diana
      God didn't create chaos. That's why he made heterosexual only. He knew all this would happen that's why he forbids it. Anyone who says the media don't influence anyone is a liar, the media has became the main influence in our lives, we've threw the bible away a long time ago, hollywood has advocated fornication, divorce , homosexuality and all we can think of. It's too late now the disease is spreading and there's nothing we can do about it. As for people who commits suicide cause tthey can't control themselves for being who they are, it's just plain stupid, people kill themselves for anything,, just read the statistics about all the bulimics and anorexic girls who kill them just to fit the so-called hollywood standard, even though the media is trying to reverse the problems that they causing, they just can't, we have to do it for them and as a young adult, I have to face reality on my own. Even if everybody accept homosexuality, thers always gonna be suicide, personnally, i knew a very young girl who killed herself because she was pregnant and didn't her mother to know.

      As for this situation, we have to look at both sides, they are both victims. The shooter is very young, he had to learn the extremely hard way. As a victim of bullying, i know how hard it is, I had to stop playing the victim and realize that people aren't always goona accept you the way you are, it's life. My parents never taught me that and i regret for not knowing that the truth is you can't forced someone to accept something they don't want ot there's always gonna be a fight. The way i see it, it's a mistake and he's young he has the right to make mistakes and grow out of them, he didn't have to shoot Larry and Larry didn't have to die either. I 'm not forcing anyone to agree with me but anyone with a little bit of sympathy would see that they are both victims, they are both too young..



      • Posted By: jaynewsweek9 @ 07/21/2008 2:57:47 PM

        who told you god didnt create homosexual? If God is creator of this universe, they he/she(ouch how can god be she?) should take whole responsibility of all things. If you think gays are deceased, then its the nature who made them like this. Nature is not perfect, so is your god too. He/she is also not perfect. So why should gay be punished for God's did? blame your god.

  • Posted By: kiaramanning @ 07/21/2008 2:54:25 PM

    Some of these comments are absolutely disgusting. Now is not the time to be trying to throw in your homophobic and anti-gay beliefs. This story is about a little boy that was murdered for being different. This poor child didn't get to experience life because of a brutal act. Stop concentrating on the fact that Larry might have been gay and concentrate on the fact that the life of a child was taken by another.

  • Posted By: zanax @ 07/21/2008 2:52:46 PM

    EJudgements are made all the time. We judge welfare mothers and make decisions not to increasing funds for them but especially to their children. Larry was one of the children that was alone and very vulnerable because we refuse to spend money on children. Now if you want to make Larry's as a Gay issue that is your choice, but a irresponsible one, because poor children are abused and discriminated on MORE than any other group, even more than gays.

  • Posted By: techne @ 07/21/2008 2:52:17 PM

    Of course, it's not people carrying guns in middle school that's a major factor in King's death.

    "What you might call "the shrinking closet" is arguably a major factor in Larry's death."--Newsweek

  • Posted By: firecracker_9 @ 07/21/2008 2:51:33 PM

    its all the parents fault for putting it in their childrens heads that homosexuality is not right. Who's gives a *** what gender you like...love is love. And for a child to be confused and experimenting with his or her sexuality should not be frowned upon. Parents should preach to there children about keeping focused on yourself and should and stop worrying about other people. Theres always two sides to the story, and he was not killed just because of his orientation or just because he was supposidly harrasing the other boy.

  • Posted By: firecracker_9 @ 07/21/2008 2:49:44 PM

    its all the parents fault for putting it in their childrens heads that homosexuality is not right. Who's gives a *** what gender you like...love is love. And for a child to be confused and experimenting with his or her sexuality should not be frowned upon. Parents should preach to there children about keeping focused on yourself and should and stop worrying about other people. Theres always two sides to the story, and he was not killed just because of his orientation or just because he was supposidly harrasing the other boy.

  • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 07/20/2008 12:08:10 AM

    How is it SO EASY for a 15-year-old kid to get hold of a gun??? Disgusting in itself is the fact that we all arm ourselves against each other in the first place. What kind of hell on earth have we created here in the United States of America?

    Gays, blacks, whites, hispanics, no matter what color or ethnicity, no matter what sexual orientation or sex, you are protected by the Civil Rights Act. What is so damn difficulta to understand?

    Forget your self-righteous moralizing, you hideous creatures who have made our country an intolerant, Right-Wing Nazi state in all but name. You have the brains of piss-ants.

    • Posted By: Adri @ 07/20/2008 12:03:11 PM

      I definitely agrre with your first point. Had Brandon not gotten his hands so easily on a gun, this tragedy could have been avoided.

      • Posted By: divadawn @ 07/20/2008 2:02:30 PM

        so now it's the gun company's fault! roflmao.............it's larry's fault.........he was a bully and harassed people by invoking his rights on them.

        • Posted By: jaynewsweek9 @ 07/21/2008 2:47:52 PM

          so if somebody does something wrong to you, you should go ahead and kill him?? ok so next time somebody sexually harrass me i will keep in mind your words. how ridiculous is your comment.

        • Posted By: skeksil76 @ 07/20/2008 3:20:19 PM

          You're an idiot. Larry didn't shoot himself in the head...

  • Posted By: zanax @ 07/21/2008 2:46:30 PM

    Larry came from poor class and the system did abuse him. Now if you and the magazine want to take Larry's life and turn it for a cause about homosexual that is your choice, but it is irresponsible, because the children of the poor are so much more in need of sympathy and action to rectify and stop the abuse done to them.

  • Posted By: zanax @ 07/21/2008 2:39:35 PM

    Do you know that many poor kids in foster care are literally put in closets, we read that too often. That is more cruel than anything that has been expressed here.

  • Posted By: Kurtdermensch @ 07/19/2008 8:11:56 PM

    I guess he'll never flaunt it again or hit on anyone else again.....Easy solution to a miserable plauge if you ask me.....There was a time when simple and reasonable logic was the solution to most things.

    • Posted By: jaynewsweek9 @ 07/21/2008 2:39:09 PM

      seriously what were you thinking when you commented that?smell like Hitler?

    • Posted By: skeksil76 @ 07/20/2008 3:10:58 PM

      You're an idiot

    • Posted By: MorningMom @ 07/19/2008 8:41:22 PM

      Dude....are you kidding me? This is one of the most asinine comments I have ever seen!

  • Posted By: revmark @ 07/21/2008 2:38:08 PM

    Ok, something is wrong here. A kid is just barely through puberty and knows he is homosexual? No! You don't grow up homosexual, you choose to be homosexual. Sometimes it comes from not having a strong father figure, and sometimes it comes from them being molested. When I was 8 years old, my best friend was teaching me things, that until i got older, I didn't realize an 8 year old should not have known. And then around the age of 13, I was molested by a man in the neighborhood, who paid me to come to his house to help him with house work, until he got me into his attack. I was too scared to do anything but let him continue, because he was much bigger then me. I started doing things with some of my friends, and ended up into it fully, first by force, then by choice. But I knew nothing about any sexual feelings towards boys or girls, until I was around 17, when I knew, I was wrong with my choice. I then accepted Christ, and I wasn't able to stop, until He helped me to stop. Stop making excuses for people who choose a perverted lifestyle, like I did. There was no excuse for what I did. And if children as young as 12 are claiming to be homosexual, then that should raise a red flag for the adults, that someone has been touching them in ways they should not have been touched. Remember, homosexuals cannot reproduce, they can only recruit. If you read the Nambla (North Atlantic Man Boy Love Association) magazine, you will see that the pedophiles motto is, Sex before 8, or it's too late. After becoming a minister, I started researching pedophiles, to know what makes them tick, by going into chat areas where they openly talked, and they could care less about age, as long as they can have, just one more boy, to play around with. And they passed around pictures, and I saw a picture of a 35 year old man having sex with a 3 year old boy, which made me cry, which sent me on the war path, to finding and getting any pedophile I could arrested, and those who sent around child porn on the internet.
    This is why I warn parents to make absolutely sure that you know who your children are hanging around with, because it may not be an adult making sexual contact with them, but a young person that was molested by an adult. Face facts, you are not born that way. If you were, it would be unjust for God to call it an abomination. Parents, stay in control of your children, lest you have to bring them to someone like me to help them get out of what a stranger may have gotten them into.

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