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Posted on 01/21/2006 2:20:09 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were shaken after learning this week about an apparent hate crime in Ogg Hall.
Earlier this week, four men were charged with hate crimes after a Dec. 21 incident in which an Ogg Hall lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender liaison had his door defaced.
The victim, inside his room, heard someone in the hall yelling epithets; he found that someone had written "I hate f--- faggots, Die" on his dry erase board, UW Police said. Saliva was dripping down his door and pictures on his door were defaced, police said.
Two of the men who were charged were UW-Madison students; one was visiting from Auburn University and one was from Purdue University.
"I just think it's awful," said Gestina Sewell, a sophomore from Milwaukee.
The fact that news of the alleged hate crime came out just after the Martin Luther King holiday was especially disheartening, said Sewell, legislative affairs director for Associated Students of Madison.
"It was supposed to be a time you're supposed to reflect on how our nation is, what we want to improve on, to think about what Dr. King fought for. For it to happen is bad, but just coming off of the holiday, it was just a slap in the face," Sewell said.
Interim Provost Virginia Sapiro said UW-Madison is a place for people of all political beliefs, but that doesn't justify hate crimes.
"It creates a community where people can't learn from each other," Sapiro said. "We can't have students fearful of each other."
Joseph Elder, a UW-Madison professor of sociology, said of the incident: "It sounds very strange and very sad. With all the care the campus gives for creating a climate that's friendly and supportive, it's particularly painful when something like this happens."
Elder said the incident underscores the importance of supporting tolerance for people of all races, religions, sexual orientations and "varieties of differences."
Unless you're a white, conservative male who lashes out at having The Gay Agenda shoved in your face 24/7 on campus. *Rolleyes*
I know we've covered this already, but this was such a "target rich" article. ;)
First, I want to find out if this was staged or not. Lot of that been going on lately.
Yes, and I doubt very much that Dr. King had yall on his mind when he was fighting for civil rights. In fact many blacks are incensed that gays compare their ridiculous and disgusting antics to the black struggle for equality.
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From his Letter from a Birmingham Jail
How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.
Of course, there are those that would hold that encouraging people to exhibit homosexual behavior rather than suppressing it is uplifting human personality rather than degrading it. But let us hear them defend that it is in harmony with God's law.
"Ogg Hall lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender liaison "
--- Wow, all those at once. Or is the "liason" aka Sybil?
\sarc
Off course it was staged. It's what the liberals do.
Yup, could have been staged. And for heaven's sake, they wrote on his chalkboard? So -- ERASE IT. Maybe just maybe SOME PEOPLE don't agree with the GLTB whatever agenda. Just maybe. / roll eyeballs indeed/
They wrote on its dry-erase board? Oh, the horror!
*Applause* :) Nice post.
Just WHAT IS such a "liason"???? (The Ogg Hall address makes it sound like something out of a Dr. Suess book . . .
Think I'm wrong? Have a baby, get scared and toss it in a dumpster?.....probation..........Slash tires of the GOP on election day....even if your daddy is the ex mayor and your mommy is a U.S. Congress Critter....misdemeanor and probation...hate speech = jail time
Add me to that list. A white male in this society is still privileged. No white gay guy was ever stopped from sitting in the front of the bus, swimming in the white pool, or applying to universities when there were still quotas or absolute exclusions for blacks and Jews. Dr. King and his followers did not march half naked, wearing dog collars, to make a point, the way the gays do. Most blacks find nothing similar about their civil rights issues and those that concern gays.
A few years ago I went to a campus minority job fair and was surprised to see a white, gay guy that I knew. He said he had every right to be there. I don't think so.
Just wipe off the spit and go on with your studies, you transgenderTwit.
Talk about drama queen threatrixs.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." Unless, you try to tear down the strong individual, the American ideal. So, the PC police continue to find sissies to come crying to them because their feelings are hurt. Somewhere among the PC police is another Hitler or Mussolini waiting to get enough sissies and anarchists behind him for a violent coup.
When I was in college an Afican-American roomate called me whitey and pulled a knife on me. The college hushed it up, transerred him to another dorm, and told me they din't want to press charges.
Anyway, the guy pulled a knife on his next roomate too.
So, anyway, what was the hate crime here? Wrote something nasty on a dry-erase board?
Live with it, you twit. Sometimes life is unpleasant.
So whose students were they? Who's on first here?
the students could be charged with making a death threat, and Federal hate crime charges.
Owning a gun and being arrested for domestic abuse... 15 -25 years, (10 Federal, 5-15 state). Owning a gun and committing a fenony... 5 years state. Raping a little kid--- 1 year (Vermont).. Not paying your taxes... 5-15 years in prison (Even for a little bit)
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