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08/26/2003 Archived Entry: "Wait a minute..."

SO WHICH IS IT?: Domenico Bettinelli brought up a good point this morning. When John Geoghan was charged with molesting his way through his congregation's children the usual suspects argued that his crimes had nothing to do with homosexuality. Now that Geoghan was killed by a prisoner that has a pathological hatred for gays these same people are arguing it was an anti-gay hate crime.

Now I'm not arguing that homosexuals are pederasts but I would like to see some bloody consistency from people. If Geoghan's death was an anti-gay crime then that means that his crimes were a gay crime. If his original crimes weren't related to his homosexuality then that means his murder wasn't an anti-gay crime. Period. You can only take one path.

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Why can't the two just be crimes period? Why must the left make one a hate crime and the right make the other a gay crime? Murder is murder and molestation is molestation.

Why are both sides of this debate embracing such collectivist nonsense? Enough already. Both are crimes. Lets dispense with the collectivism.

Posted by James Landrith @ 08/26/2003 03:25 PM EST

I agree with you completely James which is why I took a hardline on the issue. If the left wants to play the game of collectivism then they have play the game to its logical conclusion. They can't selectively choose how to label crimes.

Posted by Steven Martinovich @ 08/26/2003 05:40 PM EST