{"id":4193,"date":"2008-02-25T00:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/25\/a-few-other-responses-to-the-murder-of-larry-king\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T00:22:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T07:42:31","slug":"a-few-other-responses-to-the-murder-of-larry-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4193","title":{"rendered":"A few other responses to the murder of Larry King"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Patricia Nell Warren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The fact is \u2013 when school administrators find bullying going on, they often refuse to see the speeding train coming straight at them. Yet they usually get advance warning on a bully or clique of bullies and who the victim is. But they fail to act immediately — to suspend the problem students and get them out of the school without any delay. Why? Because they don’t want to deal with the angry parents of one bullying kid, or the parents of an entire bullying clique, especially parents with political juice. They also don’t want to deal with local church conservatives who insist that protecting LGBT students is equal to saying that homosexuality is OK. Not to mention the fact that every student not in school that day is ADA money that the school doesn’t get. Teachers, too, are often afraid to speak out against bullies, because they know that teachers are assaulted at school as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Big Mouth at Big Queer Blog<\/a> on the non-mysterious way that no journalists ask, in anguish, “why?,” when a gay kid is shot:<\/p>\n

Look, I don’t think for a second that music or clothes make a killer. I also realize that there are plenty of bipolar folks in the world that wouldn’t hurt a fly. It’s not that I want these connections to be made; it’s just that they always are except<\/i> when it’s a gay kid getting killed. How can we not<\/i> see the silent implication here?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, from the insano-Christian Right: Michael, in the comments of California Catholic Daily<\/a>, wrote:<\/p>\n

What an incredible tragedy for all concerned. However, as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen has noted, “Love is not tolerance” and, “a cry for tolerance never induces it to quench its hatred of the evil philosophies that have entered into contest with the Truth.” This situation calls for so much more than “tolerance” . At a time when young people are becoming aware of their own sexuality, a confused, apparent young teen aged boy is allowed to come to the school environment dressed suggestively as a member of the opposite sex. Who allowed this? Was it the home where he was being cared for, the school,etc. Obviously,he was troubled and needed help..indeed his behavior cried out for it. That this behavior was confusing and threatening to other boys, going through the so-called latency period of their own sexuality is not unusual or unexpected. He should never have been allowed into the school environment in the first place. His apparent dress was begging for a confrontation, it appears, and the home and the school allowed this to happen. Why? This situation should not have been “tolerated”. It should have been addressed and stopped before it led to this tragedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be fair, several other comment-writers there scolded Michael for his comment. Then “John L. Sillison” wrote:<\/p>\n

I don’t see homosexuals going after the killers of American troops who are fighting and dying while trying to protect the free world. I don’t see homosexuals organizing to keep old people from being euthanized. Where are the homosexual lobbying efforts to stop abortion? There is a kind of political alliance between homosexuals and blacks … but what about alliances between homosexuals and Mexicans, Asians, Indians, Native Americans? Why can’t homosexuals stand up for themselves? Why is it so hard for them to persuade so many other people that they deserve to have greater political power than anyone else?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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