WTF does them being gay have anything to do with them being killers?
Do you think that Truman was taking notes all the times he visited Perry in jail?
If they decided to take revenge on heteronormative society then it would matter a very great deal that they were gay.
Did they? You don’t know. I don’t know.
Don’t mistake me. I think the concept of a “hate crime” is toxic. Murder is murder.
But if we insist that no gay criminals can possibly be guilty of this ‘hate crime’ - so much so that we refuse even to examine the possibility as you seem to - then we have allowed gay people to obtain an effective patent of nobility. One law for heterosexuals, another law for homosexuals, do you see?
The current state of the law is toxic enough. Let us at least apply it evenly, even to murders long since resolved.
That's like asking what Islam has to do with the Hasan masacre?
Capote obviously had his reasons for covering up the results of the investigation. Others believe that homosexual jeolosy was the motivation for the killing.
Now that every death of a gay man brings the prospect of a 'hate crime' why are you willing to look away from a gay hate crime?
The fact that they were perverted homosexuals have a lot to do with it. The perversion of homosexuality is an unacceptable life style choice. Perverted homosexuals like these two strike out against a society that does not accept them.
It is theorized that their homosexual relationship was the actual cause for the slaughter of the family. One of the guys was going to rape the daughter...the other caught him and was jealous...this led to the murders.