On the occasion of the signing of the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, let’s take a look at a specific hate crime recently committed in Queens, New York mentioned by Andrew Sullivan in his blog post “Why God Backs Beating The Crap Out Of You.”
Below is a video of a vicious gay-bashing in Queens. It’s below the fold because it’s painful to watch. But the most amazing part of the news segment is an interview with one of the suspect’s buddies, who accused the victim of “coming on” to his friends and thereby deserving a beatdown – near to death. As he denies there was any anti-gay bias in the attack, he wears a proud Leviticus tattoo above. Video and news segment after the jump:
This hateful idiot quotes Leviticus 18:22, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.” Maybe this neanderthal should continue reading. In the next chapter (Leviticus 19:28) we read “You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.” Selective Bible quoting just to support the hate. How typical!