[re_nortex]

At the risk of continuing this well-intentioned (by both of us) dialog well into the wee hours, here's why I labeled it with the bracketed term of "[HOAX!]", admittedly editorial judgement on my part. And, yes, I think we may end us agreeing only to civilly and respectfully disagree. To be upfront, I'm not denying that some incident actually happened. Maybe that was ambiguous in the headline I chose. There was indeed blood and evidence of violence. The "hoax" is attributing this to anti-homosexual hatred not the criminal act itself.

• The source for this is SeeBS, a manufacturer of lie after lie for decades.
• As I noted upthread, the Oak Lawn part of Dallas is heavily populated by sodomites. They do tend to be the type to fly off the handle.
• We here in the Dallas area had another hoax perpetrated recently with the hoax bomb in Irving. So hoaxes are top-of-mind hereabouts.
• In the late '90s, a number of black churches were burned in the region and the lamestream media was quick to jump on the "hate crime" angle. They were wrong.
• The Alliance Defending Freedom declared Matthew Shepard's murder as a hoax to advance the homosexual agenda. This hits home here in Texas since majority of the state opposes same-sex marriage. What better way to elicit sympathy than to claim a hate crime?
• And finally, there's Alec Torres' excellent article, Eleven Hate-Crime Hoaxes.

In short, since the overwhelming majority of these "hate crimes" have turned out to anything but, I opted to go with the "[HOAX!]" since it's by far the most likely case. All that said, I am a reasonable person and in the event that I turn out to be wrong, I'll admit it. I doubt that will happen but we'll see.

[fwdude]

Hey, re_nortex, do you remember the “666” tagger about a year ago that graffiti-ed the sodomite statue in the Oak Lawn area? Was that mystery ever solved, and was it just another hoax?

I suspected that since I never heard anything further about it that it was a hoax.