No one is questioning that the (soon to be) killer needs to pay.Of course the killer should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Of course the gay boy is the real victim here. Those things are not in doubt.
What is not clear are the reasons why the boy was shot, and whether or not the penalties for the (soon to be) murder should be dramatically increased because the victim was gay. Do we really want a legal system that gives a woman three years in prison for murdering her husband but gives two consecutive life terms to two men for murdering a homosexual? Why does our legal system seem to regard some lives as being so much more valuable than others, and some cold-blooded killers as so much more forgivable than others?
Liberals rank people by race, sex, and sexual orientation. Blacks are more valuable than whites, women are more valuable than men, and gays are more valuable than straights. Many conservatives, including me, strongly disagree with that ranking system, and do not enjoy seeing it tip the scales of justice. I think that is very likely to happen in this case.
I hope that the killer receives exactly the same sentence he would receive for killing a non-homosexual. No more, no less. Anything else would be an injustice. I hope that if the killer is tried as an adult, that the whole story behind the shooting is made public. I very much doubt that the shooting occurred just because the boy was gay, no matter how much gay activist groups and the liberal MSM would like for it to be so.
I know of a young man (homosexual) in Colorado who was killed because he was gay. He was a student in Highschool...his name was Fred Martinez Jr.
His killer smashed his head in with a rock and left him to die in the weeds. Some of his story can be found here: http://www.fuah.org/fuah_cortez.html
I am a survivor of a violent crime...my attacker was given 85 years for what he did to me. This boy’s killer was given 40 years. I’m grateful for the long sentence my attacker got, and feel that this killer got off easy.
Sentences are getting too lenient.
couldn’t have said it better
the libs tell us that we should ignore peoples sexual preference yet they have parades and prance around on their tip toes letting everyone know they have a sexual sickness.
they the libs tell us that no one should be judged on the color of their skin yet they have a racist program in place called affirmative action
these hate laws should be stopped and we should all be treated as equals.
so the libs think a black person is more valuable, a man who likes to have sex with another man is more valuable than a man who has a wife and does sex naturally.
then they tell us that we are all the same
I believe we are so therefore get rid of this hate crime law, get rid of affirmative action