Posted on 02/15/2008 10:29:06 AM PST by paltz
(CNSNews.com) - A 14-year-old California boy is charged with a hate crime as well as attempted murder for shooting a 15-year-old boy who "sometimes wore makeup, high heels and other feminine attire," as the Associated Press reported.
The victim, Lawrence King, is brain dead, and prosecutors expect this to become a murder case very soon. They want to try the young suspect as an adult.
King was shot in the head Tuesday morning while sitting in class at a junior high school in Oxnard, Calif.
California has some of the nation's most liberal anti-discrimination, anti-bullying and "diversity" laws, including several that apply to schools and took effect on Jan. 1.
Homosexual activists have seized on Lawrence King case.
"Ten years after Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered because of his sexual orientation, a 15-year-old gay California student is brain dead after a student allegedly shot him because of his sexual orientation and gender expression," the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network said in a news release. (The group says it's main focus is ensuring safe schools for all students.)
According to GLSEN, the 14-year-old suspect was among a group of students known to bully and harass King, who reportedly told classmates he was homosexual.
"As a nation, we've had our heads in the sand for far too long," said Kevin Jennings, executive director of GLSEN. "We need to do everything we can to prevent something like this from happening again."
GLSEN says the problem of "anti-LGBT bullying" must be addressed in the nation's schools. "We must confront the fact that LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] students are much more likely to be threatened with a weapon and much more likely to feel unsafe at school than other students," Jennings said.
Judy Shepard, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, said the attack on King "underscores the fact that we cannot let hate go unchecked in our schools and communities." She urged "all parents and teachers to educate their children and students about acceptance, understanding and compassion."
California leads on LGBT issues
As GLSEN itself noted, California is one of only 10 states that protect students from bullying and harassment based on sexual orientation. It is one of only five states that protect students from bullying and harassment based on gender identity/expression.
"Safe schools laws and policies are vitally important, but simply having a law is not enough," Jennings said on Thursday. "Schools need to implement staff development and training to address anti-LGBT bullying and harassment. Schools also need programs that teach young people respect and tolerance."
Too much emphasis on sex, some say
But some conservative groups say California has gone overboard when it comes to "sexual indoctrination" in the schools.
The California-based Campaign for Children and Families has just launched an appeal urging parents to removed their children from public schools.
The group argues that home schools and church schools "are the only way to rescue children from sexual indoctrination."
CCF points to two news laws, SB 777 (The Student Civil Rights Act) and AB 394 (The Safe Place to Learn Act), which took effect on January 1.
SB 777 bars any classroom instruction or school-sponsored activity that "promotes a discriminatory bias" against sexual orientation and gender. (According to CCF, the bill "functionally requires public school instructional materials and school-sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, homosexual 'marriages,' and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality, including so-called 'gay history.'")
AB 394 requires that school districts be monitored to ensure they are complying with laws regarding student safety and harraasment. (CCF said AB 394 "requires public schools to distribute controversial material to teachers, students, and parents which promotes transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, all under the guise of 'anti-harassment' training.")
"This is the type of gender-bending education which students may have to endure unless their parents rescue them from the increasingly negative public school environment," said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, at a news conference earlier this week.
CCF has set up a RescueYourChild Web site to help parents who are concerned about the new laws.
This...
http://www.covenantnews.com/dirkhising.htm
...was obviously not a hate crime and was therefore completely ignored by the MSM.
I want to remind everyone about Jesse’s forgotten, not reported, not news worthy, not a hate crime, crime. And I’ll do it EVERY time we have to listen to the homosexual-agenda-pushers beginning with their comparisons to Matthew Shepard.
Homo killed by heteros...hate crime
hetero juvenile murdered after being brutally raped by homos...not a hate crime
How exactly was this self defense?
Deadly force as an option against 'he makes me uncomfortable dressing the way he does' is a load of cowpies.
Murder is hateful, whatever the reason. People who wear the opposite sex's clothing should not have special rights.
Oh that's nonsense.
Wasn’t Matthew Shepard actually killed for drug money?
I see that you played Women's Soccer.
Call me a "degenerate" if you want but this kid is a sick psychopath. I hope he spends the rest of his short, miserable life behind bars. He took a gun to school and put a bullet into the back of another kid's head.
The kid should not be tried as an adult.
Maybe you'd like him as a neighbor after he's released from juvie?
ROTFLMAO!!!!! Nope, but the few I have been around have ALL been violent, and tried to :flip” straight women, and when they got turned down they went NUTS. Hell hath no fury than that of a Lesbian scorned...
When he is in prison, the Shooter will go through many hours, days, weeks, months and years of “Sensitivity Training” conducted by his fellow homosexual prisoners.
And by the time he is released from prison he will have keen understanding of what it is to be homosexual.
I think we live in a progressive enough society where all students, not matter their style of dress, have earned the special right not to be murdered while they sit in class.
Sssh. To some people around here, the pursuit of happiness is considered "special rights".
[”We must confront the fact that LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] students are much more likely to be threatened with a weapon and much more likely to feel unsafe at school than other students,” Jennings said.]
Public schools should get out of the LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] business and back into the RRR’s [reading writing and rithmetic]. Hint: start by finding teachers who can pass the exams they’re supposed to teach, before they go extinct.
By the way if this child (the victim) had been allowed to attend school dressed like that the responsible school officials should be fired/sued/put in jail for reckless endangerment.
The individuals who decided it was just great for a boy to cross-dress and attend classes with folks who felt intimidated by that are certainly part of the bullying problem and should be held accountable.
To a degree the boy's crossdressing falls into the same sort of category we have to place the wearing of the hi-jab. Initially portrayed as being little more than a head-covering for purposes of traditional modesty, in reality it is found to be a message to other women in the same area that "someone is watching" so they'd best be careful. So too with the boy's dresses, fishnet stockings, high-heels, etc. The message is clear. The response, although out of scale with the threat, should not have been unexpected.
The same language must be made to work on both sides of table in this case, or it doesn't work on either side.
If not for the damage they do, liberals would be quite entertaining. How one can simultaneously credit Kalifornia with protecting people while discussing the attack which is the subject of the article, is an amazing feat of "DoubleThink". It should be obvious that the laws in question protect nobody.
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Dressing that way was a class disruption as well as subjecting himself to forseeable ridicule. Do homosexuals honestly expect this to not push the buttons of certain individuals and create a potential atmosphere of harassment and violence?
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Government schools resemble, in many ways, prisons. Is it any wonder that we see prison social pathology (bullying) emerge within these students? I don’t think so.
Solution: Do not institutionalize your child. Homeschool if you possibly can. If you must use institutionalized education, look for a **small** private school.
The administration should be put on trial for letting such abominable sick costume displays n school.
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Expect to see more of this. Why? Answer: Because homosexuals are being actively recruited for teaching and administrative positions in the government schools.
How wrong they are.
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