[BlessedBeGod]

On New Year's Eve, one firefighter attacked another in an assault preceded by what some newspapers are calling "a homosexual slur." The victim has been hospitalized with severe head injuries. FDNY spokesmen call the assault an isolated incident resulting from "horseplay." Mayor Bloomberg called it an "altercation." Some reports have portrayed verbal harassment as a firefighter's rite of passage.

With these paragraphs, the writer is already discredited by mischaracterizing what happend. Reasons for the fight also include alcohol and one firefighter accusing the other of taking advantage of his colleagues. It wasn't simply because of slurs.

[BlessedBeGod]

Fr. Mychal Judge was not gay, and that was pretty well documented after 9/11.

[NYCVirago]

With these paragraphs, the writer is already discredited by mischaracterizing what happend. Reasons for the fight also include alcohol and one firefighter accusing the other of taking advantage of his colleagues. It wasn't simply because of slurs.

Yep. The one who got sent to the hospital had a rookie work his Thanksgiving shift, then worked the shift anyway to get extra overtime. The other guys were ragging on him for the next month about doing that.