[MikefromOhio]

.....smashed Smith's skull with a tire iron.

(snip)

The car clipped Smith, knocking him down.

American homosexuals need to understand that their perverted public behavior does anger some heterosexuals.

It just figures that someone on FR would try to justify this....no I don't agree with their lifestyle but I'll be damned if I try to harm anyone over it.

[FerdieMurphy]

But these two should have known better.

[Larry Lucido]

We've got a few around here who would say the attackers were merely following Biblical mandates to slay homosexuals. Mr. Brightside knows who I'm talking about.

[FormerLib]

There was no justification implied in the statement.

If I warn a white guy not to walk through parts of the barrio at night, am I approving of any violence that might be committed against him or alerting him to certain unpleasant realities?

Clearly, it is the latter and that's exactly what the original poster was expressing.

[StarCMC]

Thank God there's a voice of reason somewhere in here. Hi Mike!

[kinoxi]

yeah, kill those you are morally superior to ... /S

[CheyennePress]

It just figures that someone on FR would try to justify this....no I don't agree with their lifestyle but I'll be damned if I try to harm anyone over it.

The poster wasn't trying to justify it.

I don't think overreaction is fair here. You and I both know what's going to happen to one of us if we walk into a mosque in the Middle East and urinate in the ritual purifying fountain. No questions asked.

[veronica]

I am glad to see most FReepers turning away from the brutality that was visited upon this guy. It's amusing to me that over at the obsessed anti-FReeper site CP, the few less shall we say, enlightened posts here are being pointed to as proof of FR's anti-gay barbarity, when in fact I was called a "fag hag" over there when I posted my opinion of Brokeback Mouintain at FR, which was lukewarm rather than all-out negative. They just can't decide which side of the fence they are on over there. :)