Posted on 08/19/2003 8:08:07 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
I have never posted before so have mercy on me. Cleveland Plain Dealer reports the following:
A part-time church janitor suspects men beat him because the pastor preached against homosexuality, police said yesterday.
Richard Bilski, 49, of Sheffield Lake, told police that the unidentified men assaulted him Sunday morning outside the non-denominational Church on the Rise after demanding to know when Pastor Paul Endrei would arrive.
Bilski said the men then fled, one yelling, "This is a message for Pastor Paul."
Capt. Guy Turner said police have no way of knowing the motive for the attack, but Bilski and Endrei said they believe the men were retaliating for an August 10 sermon in which the pastor called homosexuality a sin.
Endrei said in a telephone interview that he preached about the Rev. Gene Robinson, who became the first openly gay Episcopalian confirmed as a bishop.
"I told the congregation, "The Gospel according to Gene Robinson is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ," he said. The point of the sermon was that "we love the homosexual, but we hate the sin."
Buck Harris, a former host of a gay-themed radio talk show said sermons such as Endrei's can fuel hate crimes.
"If they don't preach tolerance, they are preaching violence," Harris said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
The bottom line is that we can now show that relative to their numbers the amount of violence in homosexual relationships is very high. Gay Domestic Violence Finally Measured
The homosexual historical footprint is large when it comes to the rape and murder of children. The most notorious child killer might be Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard), remembered for raping, torturing, and killing perhaps 800 boys in 15th century France. Gilles often raped the boy as he hung from a hook by the neck. Before he died, Gilles took him down, comforted him, repeated the act and either killed him himself or had him slain. In his confession, Gilles testified that "when the children were dead he kissed them and those who had the most handsome limbs and heads he held up to admire them, and had their bodies cut open and took delight at the sight of their inner organs; and very often when the said children were dying he sat on their stomachs and took pleasure in seeing them die and laughed..." (www.crimelibrary.com)
At the turn of the 19th century, "hobos" or "bums" in the U.S. were often driven from towns because it was believed that they were responsible for raping and killing boys. Even the murder of a boy by homosexual lovers Leopold and Loeb in 1924, then called the "crime of the century," likely involved rape. As of July 23, 2001, the Associated Press list of the worst serial killers in the United States was topped by Donald Harvey, followed by John Wayne Gacy, Patrick Kearney, Bruce Davis and Dean Corll in descending number of victims (www.crimelibrary.com). All these perpetrators of serial crimes in the 1970s and 1980s engaged in homosexuality, and the majority of the victims for the last four killers were boys. The Family Research Institute
I looked for the article at the Plain Dealer and couldn't find it. For consistency do not re-name articles so others don't repost.
This story does not compute
Finding: Compared with their heterosexual peers, homosexual men were at greater risk for psychiatric disorders, including mood and anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, and simple phobia.
Sample or Data Description
5,998 Dutch adults
Source
Theo G. M. Sandfort
"Same-Sex Sexual Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders"
Archives of General Psychiatry.
Vol. 58, Number . , 2001. Page(s) 85-91.
I missed it too, perhaps because it's not there.
Here's the story in full, with a link, under its original headline.
Janitor beaten outside church08/19/03
Sarah Treffinger
Plain Dealer ReporterWestlake - A part-time church janitor suspects three men beat him because his pastor preached against homosexuality, police said yesterday.
Richard Bilski, 49, of Sheffield Lake, told police that the unidentified men assaulted him Sunday morning outside the nondenominational Church on the Rise after demanding to know when Pastor Paul Endrei would arrive.
Bilski said the men then fled, one yelling, "This is a message for Pastor Paul."
Capt. Guy Turner said police have no way of knowing the motive for the attack, but Bilski and Endrei said they believe the men were retaliating for an Aug. 10 sermon in which the pastor called homosexuality a sin.
Endrei said in a telephone interview that he preached about the Rev. Gene Robinson, who became the first openly gay Episcopalian confirmed as a bishop.
"I told the congregation, 'The Gospel according to Gene Robinson is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ,' " he said. The point of his sermon was that "we love the homosexual, but we hate the sin."
Buck Harris, a former host of a gay-themed radio talk show, said sermons such as Endrei's can fuel hate crimes.
"If they don't preach tolerance, they are preaching violence," Harris said.
Bilski, who also works as a letter carrier, told police his attackers arrived at 6:45 a.m. in a white Pontiac Firebird. He reported seeing the same car in the parking lot of the Crocker Road church three or four times last week.
Bilski said yesterday that the men confronted him as he took out the trash. A fight erupted, he said, after he told the men he didn't know when to expect Endrei.
"I'm the janitor, not the timekeeper," he recalled telling the men.
At that point, Bilski said, one man berated him with obscenities and another struck him in the face with a tennis racket. Bilski said the trio also punched him and tore off his shirt as a fourth man looked on. He suffered cuts and bruises to his face, arms, hands and ribs.
"I did nothing against anybody and I'm the one in the middle of this," Bilski said.
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