The Results Of Hate

When you allow people to classify one group of people as being superior to another, you create a precedent that allows them to believe that it is okay to hate them and to act out on that hate. Maybe it is time some of you got a real close look at what that hate creates and does.


Gwen Araujo (February 24, 1985 – October 3, 2002), born Edward Araujo, Jr., was an American teenage pre-operative trans woman who was murdered in Newark, California. She was killed by four men, two of whom she had allegedly been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering she was transsexual. On October 3, 2002, at a party, one of them forced inspection and got to know that Gwen Araujo possessed male genitalia and is a transsexual.
After discovering this, Gwen Araujo was beaten to death with a frying pan and a barbell. Among the four murderers, two of the defendants were convicted of second degree murder of Gwen Araujo, while the others pleaded guilty of voluntary manslaughter. However, the jury did not consider the murder of Gwen Araujo as a hate crime; instead, it was reaction to a sudden astonishing disclosure.

Eudy Simelane (11 March 1977 – 28 April 2008) was a South African footballer who played for the South Africa women's national football team and an LGBT-rights activist. She was raped and murdered in her hometown of KwaThema, Springs, Gauteng.Simelane's partially clothed body was found in a creek in KwaThema. She had been gang raped, beaten, and stabbed 25 times in the face, chest, and legs. She had been one of the first women to live openly as a lesbian in KwaThema. A report by the international NGO ActionAid, backed by the South African Human Rights Commission, suggested that her murder was a hate crime committed against her because of her sexual orientation.

Raymond Chase, a 19-year-old openly gay sophomore studying culinary arts at Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island, committed suicide on Wednesday by hanging himself in his dorm room.

In the early hours of 23rd June 2012, Steven Simpson was set on fire by 20 year old Jordan Sheard who had gate-crashed his house party in Cudworth near Barnsley. He had been verbally abused, stripped of his clothes and had phrases like “I love dick” and “gay boy” scrawled across his body. He was then doused in tanning oil, Sheard lit his crotch with a cigarette lighter and the flames engulfed his body. Those involved fled as Simpson’s neighbour tried desperately to put out the flames. Simpson died the next day after enduring 60% burns to his body.

Hate kills. Time to quit playing the semantics games. It amazes me that the worst hate comes from those that profess that they are followers of a "Loving God". Homosexuality is NOT an attack on Heterosexuality. There is NO gay agenda. You cannot say you are for truth and justice for all if in the same breath you say gays must lie about who they are and have no rights. Stop being hypocrites to self serve and embrace one ideal. That ideal is Love To All.

Burly Bear Chris