Posted on 11/21/2002 4:58:51 PM PST by Polycarp
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/nov/02112108.html
HOMOSEXUAL TEEN STABS DEVOUT CATHOLIC TO DEATH
Violent reaction to suggestion that teen try to change sexual orientation
CHICAGO, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A homosexual teen stabbed a middle-aged devout Catholic woman to death, apparently after she suggested that he try to change his sexual orientation.
Police arrested Nicholas Gutierrez, 19, after he confessed on video and the body of fellow Sikorski Funeral Home employee, Mary Stachowicz, a 51-year-old Polish translator, was found in a crawl space beneath his apartment. He has been charged with first-degree murder, attempting to conceal a homicide and burglary.
"She was a very intense person concerned about the good of the parish always seeking things for the poor as well as the spiritual welfare of people," said Rev. Francis Rog of St. Hyacinth Church.
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November 21, 2002
Woman Murdered After Reportedly Witnessing to Homosexual
By Bob Kellogg, correspondent
A killing in Chicago last week could turn "hate crimes" laws on their head.
A brutal murder in Chicago last week highlights the double standard surrounding hate crimes. A homosexual killed a woman that was trying to witness to him. Will authorities call the killing a hate crime and will the media report it in the same way they did the Matthew Shepard murder?
Nineteen-year-old Nicholas Gutierrez is charged with first degree murder in the slaying of 51-year-old Mary Stachowicz. He allegedly beat, stabbed and hid her body in his apartment after she told him God would not approve of his lifestyle. The two were co-workers. Gutierrez allegedly has said he was enraged because it reminded him of heated debates with his mother. Relatives say Stachowicz was probably trying to help.
Peter LaBarbera, of Concerned Women for America, was pointed in his response to this crime.
"This woman, Mary Stachowicz, was killed evidently because she was sharing the truth about homosexuality to a gay activist," LaBarbera said. "We will be waiting to see, now, if the media treats this case like it treated the Matthew Shepard case."
So far it has not. Laura Montgomery, of Soulforce — a gay-activist organization — seemed to avoid the hate crime aspect of the incident.
"Our understanding of the Bible in no way condemns sexual orientation or the love that two people of the same sex feel towards one another," Montgomery said.
But, when pressed, Montgomery grudgingly said she might consider this murder a hate crime.
"If it was directed at this person and intended to intimidate Christians, that would be a hate crime in my mind," Montgomery said.
For LaBarbera, this murder was blatantly a hate crime.
"It's going to be hard for people to say this is not an anti-Christian hate crime committed by a homosexual activist. But I fully expect the media to not pay a lot of attention to this case."
Prosecutors say they are considering the death penalty for Gutierrez.
The Cook County State's Attorney's office says since Gutierrez is being charged with murder, a hate crime charge would be irrelevant.
I disagree.
No problem. Sorry for my own harshness too.
I'd recommend reading the materials on the NARTH website for more background on these issues.
Sort of a licence to do almost anything in the name of your religion isn't it?
I suppose thats the attitude that muslem fanatics have when they kill christians. Their version of their religion forbids them to allow christians to live, so it's not only alright to kill them, it is required.
The media portrayed this to be something it was not. Very quickly they stopped saying the motive was robbery and stopped showing the other guy that was bashed in the head. They portrayed it as these two were on the rampage looking for a homosexual to kill, and that is just simply not true.
While I think he died in a way that no one should die but many murders these days are ugly and more violent that just a gun shot. I just read about the killings in Africa and people seem to not only want to kill, but desire to it in a very brutal way.
MCD
I get sick of this mommy I got my feelings hurt because so and so says they don't like what I am doing or that they think it is wrong. People don't have to accept and celebrate Christianity, homosexuality or anything else, but they have no right to physically harm some regardless. I may find homosexual behaivor disgusting as you may have a distaste for Christians so get over it.
I can honestly state that I am sure. Though my own specialty is as far from the head as one can get, I have read the studies, and as a physician I wholeheartedly believe reparative therapy can be effective.
But what if he's wrong?
Do you believe in God? If so, what do you believe about Him?
You are a Catholic. Your Church tells you that homosexuality is inherently disordered. The Word of God, the Bible, is of one voice regarding homosexuality. It is grave evil according to scripture.
Multiple studies of twins prove it is NOT genetic.
So it must be a psychological problem.
Repartive therapy is the ONLY therapy that takes a cohesive scholarly approach to homosexuality that can also be reconciled with our Christian understanding of man, sin, psychology, and ultimately healing and forgiveness.
The Catholic Medical Association has written one of the greatest documents I have found on this issue, you can read it at HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOPE: STATEMENT OF THE CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
I suppose thats the attitude that muslem fanatics have when they kill christians.
Mondays always were the worst day of the week...
Thanks to Hollywood and the media, Gays are over at my house doing just that in almost every sitcom. Thanks to the liberal left they are in my schools being paid to do so. Do I now have the right to kill them? How absurd! You piss me off, I kill you now is the stuff of cavemen not an enlightened society. But the cave "men" don't seem to care.
Traditionally, the psychiatric profession and the psychological profession (two very loose uses of the term "profession") did in fact hold homosexuality as a diagnosable mental illness. That was then the party line. Both "professions" were battered down by the gay rights pests in their own ranks. They decided "democratically" that truth had somehow changed and that homosexuality was no longer to be considered a mental illness. That is now the party line. Well, what sould be expected of groups that start out to diagnose the significance of human behavior and ritually ignore the existence of God, the soul, the afterlife, punishment, reward, to say nothing of the Ten Commandments.
I have a hard time imagining, that whatever time may have passed since the receipt of the Ten Commandments and the writing of the Bible, that fudgepacking is ever going to be morally acceptable behavior, or fisting, or whatever these folks do as a substitute for real life.
In the case at hand, the desperate emotional immaturity and attachment to vile sin of young Gutierrez (who has confessed so we are not ignoring his due process rights) has demanded of him the murder of his innocent co-worker whose life has proven far more caluable than his. I live in Illinois. I fervently hope that some tiny measure of my tax money will participate in the injection of that fatal cocktail into Gutierrez's veins. The sooner the better (around fifteen years here in Illinois, land of Richard Speck and John Wayne Gacy, two more Cook County perverts).
BTW, the nature of God is not a debate society question among actual Catholics. Nor is the sinfulness of homosexuality: any homosexuality, whatsoever. Nor is the sinfulness of murdering your co-worker because she reminded one of his mother arguing with him.
The more I think of this the more I realize that injection is a wimp punishment by this state of Illinois. Let Gutierrez die in the electrifying embrace of old Sparky.
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