By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Banner of Liberty (www.bannerofliberty.com
March 26, 2001
Most people in America have heard of the beating death of Matthew Shepard, thanks to more than 3000 TV, Cable and print media reports and more than 5000 internet stories on his murder. And most people have an opinion on it, since it has been used as the reason to pass so-called "hate crimes" bills. When heterosexuals Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life imprisonment for the death of homosexual Matthew Shepard, the event was hailed by then president Bill Clinton. He said:
"This verdict is a dramatic statement that we are determined to have a tolerant law-abiding nation that celebrates our differences, rather than deepening them. We cannot surrender to those on the fringe of our society who lash out at those who are different."
The movement to portray homosexuality as a mere difference of opinion is dangerous. That "difference of opinion" is not being discussed openly, probably because most people don't really want to talk about what homosexuals do,. As a result, Clinton's statement that the only people who have any problems with homosexuals in the Boy Scouts, homosexuals teaching how-to-be homosexual classes in our public schools and homosexuals being given the same honored place in our culture as men and women who marry one another and raise a family, has gained absolute dominance in the media. Most of us, I suspect, don't really want to talk about this issue openly because it is hard to discuss in a family publication.
However, I think the time has come when the public needs to discuss what homosexuality actually is and why most of them, even in America, rarely live beyond the age of 41. The lifestyle that is being sold America's youth as a normal, if alternate, lifestyle is not the happy scene we are getting in the array of homosexual TV shows and movies. It has a very dark side.
For example, McKinney, a 22 year old college student, who was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murder of Matthew Shepard, had been the victim of a homosexual sexual abuse attack by a "male neighborhood bully" at the age of seven. A night of alcohol and drug consumption, during which Shepard openly "flirted" with McKinney, ended when an enraged McKinney beat Shepard so viciously that five days afterwards he died.. Although McKinney testified that he did not intend to kill him, Shepard was struck at least 18 times in head.
It was a horrible crime, but not really that much different from most of the 20,000 or so murders that take place every year in America, many caused by anger aggravated by too much alcohol and drugs. McKinney and Henderson's primary motive, according to the police report, was robbery. In fact, it was Shepard's shoes, coat and credit card found in McKinney's vehicle that led the police to Shepard's murderers. .
However, it soon became a cause celebre in the media because Shepard was a homosexual. He was leading, at one point, as Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" and did make Time's story of the year. His death was used to lobby for state and federal "hate crime" legislation. Poems were written about him and memorial websites abound.
About a year later, in September 1999, there was another murder, involving homosexuals, which got almost no publicity, other than local Arkansas papers. There was no outcry in the dominant media. Apparently because in this murder the victim was heterosexual and the murderers were homosexual. In fact, there were NO reports of it in the very same media that milked the Mathhew Shepard murder for months. This time the victim was a 13 year old boy, Jesse Dirkhising, in Benton, Arkansas and the murderers, Joshua Brown (22) and Davis Don Carpenter (38), were homosexual lovers. Detective Sgt. Terry Woodside of the Rogers, Arkansas police department described the crime scene in an affidavit to the Benton County Court on what he found in the home of Joshua Brown and Carpenter:
Brown stated that on this occasion he snuck up on Dirkhising, tied his hands behind his back, placed a pair of underwear in Dirkhising's mouth and secured them with a bandana and duct tape. He placed a bandana over Dirkhising's eyes and secured it in place with duct tape. He then placed a tee shirt over Dirkhising's head, and checked to ensure that Dirkhising's nostrils were not covered. He placed belts around Dirkhising's knees and ankles to hold his legs together. Brown then untied Dirkhising's wrists and secured them to opposite sides of the mattress. He positioned Dirkhising on his stomach, placing pillows under his stomach. Brown then proceeded to penetrate Dirkhising's anus with various items, including three (3) fingers of his hand, his penis, a cucumber, a sausage, a banana and a douche bottle. Brown stated at one point he prepared and administered an enema for the victim, using his own urine as the liquid. Brown then positioned a cucumber so that it was slightly penetrating Dirkhising's anus, and secured it with tape. He then went to the kitchen, where he ate a sandwich before returning to the bedroom. Upon his return, he found that Dirkhising was apparently not breathing. Brown pulled the tee shirt off Dirkhising's head, cut the tape and bandanas away, removed the underwear from Dirkhising's mouth and contacted Carpenter. Brown also guessed Dirkhising to be thirteen or fourteen years old.
Brown GUESSED Dirkhising was thirteen or fourteen years old? He was aware, apparently, before he started the torture of the child that he was that young. Over the week-end talk show guests from homosexual organizations said the Dirkhising murder was not a "hate crime" like the Shepard murder. The facts of the case tell a totally different story. What Brown described was a pedophile attack, in which he bound, gagged and tortured a 13 year old until he died, while the child's parents were thinking he was working for Carpenter in his hairdressing shop.
Somewhere along the line someone has to ask how much the homosexual propaganda barrage of the last few years had to do with the mother of Jesse Dirkhising, who was a friend of Carpenter's, letting her son stay in his home with his lover. The sad fact of the matter is that quite a few people don't really know what homosexuals do to each other or the physical, as well as emotional, damage it causes.
The first time I got a clue as to what kinds of behavior is common among practicing homosexuals was when my son, who was then in medical school, called me up after attending a seminar on how to repair the damage done to the human body as a result of homosexual behavior described in Detective Woodside's affidavit. It is not unique. He was outraged that one human being could behave so savagely towards another and ended forever any misconceptions or ignorance of the subject he might have had on the subject of homosexual behavior.
And, back at the National Education Association, the leaders are "pitching a resolution to support the development of curriculum and instructional materials and programs designed to meet the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.
"The resolution also states curriculum, with involvement of the gay community, should be created to address those students' needs. 'It's a step forward that allows more comprehensive programs to come into place,' said Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network GLSEN) co-chairman [Utah chapter] Doug Wortham. 'It is not a panacea, but all (resolutions and belief statements) are a cure for homophobia, one step at a time.' Carolyn Lobb, executive director of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network said in an interview that "Gay- straight alliances are not about sex. They're about student safety, respect, tolerance."
This seems to be the new version of "safe sex" that brought us rampant disease, abortion and teen pregnancy. While I personally don't think sexual discussions belong in the public school, they seem to be there to stay. That being the case, perhaps it is time to challenge the warm fuzzy material being foisted on the public schools by homosexual special interest groups such as GLSEN with a few facts. If we can spend millions of dollars and hours of time warning kids about smoking or drugs shortening their lives 8-10 years, it seems pretty stupid to me to hide from them the dangers to their health, and their lives if they take up homosexual sex behavior which will shorten their lifespan by up to 40 years.
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