Man shoots 4 year old for 'gay behavior'
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It's unlikely that Nancy Grace will rage about him on her show. ABC and Fox probably won't give his death wall to wall coverage.
Because Jadon Higganbothan was not blond, or a girl - but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't lament what happened to him, or why.
In Durham, North Carolina this week Peter Lucas Moses, 27, stood trail facing two counts of first-degree murder.
Moses was the leader of a religious cult who shot the 4 year old boy dead for what he called his 'gay behavior.' Moses also shot and killed Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy, 28, because she wanted to leave the cult.
'In the religious belief of that organization, homosexuality was frowned on,' Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline told WRAL.COM.
'Sometime in October 2010, Smith told Moses that Jadon had hit another child's bottom, and Moses became angry and started walking around the house with a gun that belonged to Jadon's mother, Vania Rae Sisk, prosecutors said.
'He starts screaming, 'I told you to get rid of him!' and told Sisk,'How am I going to do this?' Cline recalled the witness' account.
'Moses ordered two of the women to set up computers and speakers in the garage, prosecutors said they were told by the witness. They said he started playing music with the Lord's Prayer in Hebrew, took Jadon in the garage and shut the door, and the women then heard a gunshot.'
Four years old. Jadon died with the Lord's Prayer ringing in his ears and hearing himself condemned in the Bible.
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Gearoid4 | Jul 12, 2011, 03:32 PM EDT
Marriage is made for the mating of man and woman in line with the natural design of our Creator-
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them"(Genesis 1:27). To reconfigure this in secular legislation will have consequences for society and will downgrade the natural understanding of marriage as society has always understood it. It opens the way for relationships once thought taboo to be included in a future so-called marital arrangement. Society, even if one factors out the religious aspect, has a selfish interest in the general benefits accruing to it from the complementary parenting skills of a husband and wife as well as an insurance for the future demographic health of the nation. These are clearly absent in a 'same-sex' marriage.
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olovely | Jul 12, 2011, 03:30 PM EDT
you conservatives need to learn to stop whining, maloney.
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hancock | Jul 12, 2011, 03:10 PM EDT
That everything leads back to Fox news. You don't believe that do you?
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eiriamach | Jul 12, 2011, 02:21 PM EDT
John Stuart Mill's essay "On Liberty" gives a workable interpretation of the US Constitution's Bill of Rights. Mill's principle of individualism is often expressed as "Your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins." In philosophic terms, it means that each person has that extent of liberty to live as he or she wishes that is compatible with everyone else having the same extent of liberty. That's a fine conservative principle ("live and let live")! It supports marriage equality, and it opposes attempts to pass laws that impose any one group's religious scruples on all of us. It also leaves everyone free to live according to their own religious religious scruples unless their religious scruples require that they murder four-year-old children or abuse other people's liberties in other ways. Religious people might see this as the political version of the Golden Rule--"do unto others as...." So again I ask, what is the complaint from conservatives? What is the "lefty moron" problem that you're complaining about here?
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eiriamach | Jul 12, 2011, 01:48 PM EDT
I don't understand why conservatives are complaining about liberals/'lefties' speaking out on these issues. What is there for conservatives to complain about? Enacting marriage equality in NYS law is a win-win for conservatives: it extends a basic liberty throughout the entire population, it restores equality under the law, it strengthens the right to privacy, and it respects separation of church and state-- these are fundamental American constitutional values. Conserving and extending basic constitutional guarantees is traditionally what conservatism is all about. BTW: any liberal or progressive with a libertarian impulse also likes this outcome. But when people who think of themselves as "conservatives" oppose extending the protection of law to the homosexual population, well guys, that's not a conservative position; that's a position of the religious right, the far right, where we find zealot extremists like the one who preached that homosexuality undermines morality and then murdered the four-year-old child.
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hancock | Jul 12, 2011, 01:13 PM EDT
I was reponding to you lefty morons who see Fox under every bed.
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olovely | Jul 12, 2011, 11:59 AM EDT
That's an idiotic canard, maloney. Try thinking a bit harder. You can't admit that that gay people are discriminated against in law (they are) and then blame them for complaining about it. Are you habitually dim or just pretending?
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hollabackgurl | Jul 11, 2011, 11:45 PM EDT
I would say that you disgrace yourself by seeing the murder of a child in terms of partisan politics, hancock, but you apparently have nowhere else to defecate - or you're beyond human help.
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hancock | Jul 11, 2011, 11:21 PM EDT
Fox didn't promote this story, this screwball site did. What a bunch of lefty morons.
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eiriamach | Jul 11, 2011, 08:15 PM EDT
It's human vanity, a delusion of moral superiority, and an inclination to reject difference in others that motivate our attempts to use human law to restrict others' freedom: "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not of its own choice, but by the will of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God" (Romans 8:18-21). And Paul writes in Galatians 5:1, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." Legislators try to model human law on transcendent and objective principles of natural law because when we have the natural law within us, we can be morally autonomous; we do not need coercion by any human power. As Christ and the apostle Paul understood, natural law begins and ends with freedom. But when we use human law as a weapon to stigmatize and exclude, we free only the demons within us.
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eiriamach | Jul 11, 2011, 07:54 PM EDT
Gearoid4 writes of "specious,false compassion which people use to emotionally blackmail those who believe in traditional marriage." He fails to see that anyone can "believe in traditional marriage" without interfering in the freedom of those who practice non-traditional marriage. The verses he quotes are a lesson to the traditionalists to keep their laws-- including the law of Moses, i.e., laws of religion-- off their backs. It's true that I feel compassion for the victims of bigotry and hate crimes, but it is not true that I would try to blackmail anyone else into feeling the same. You've already made the mistake of basing law on "feeling" -- the *wrong* feeling-- homophobia, revulsion for difference, a delusion of your own moral superiority. In the gospel verse you quoted, Jesus showed that love of neighbor has little to do with "feeling" and everything to do with not using LAW to deprive each other of freedom, because, again, without freedom there is neither sin nor virtue, only coercion and control. In the next verse, Jesus says, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Clearly, understanding of human nature, not feeling, should guide us to highly restrained uses of law. Feelings can easily mislead us; unjust laws that deprive people of equal dignity and freedom can just as easily mislead us into persecuting our neighbors.
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seanomelbourne | Jul 11, 2011, 07:29 PM EDT
You may be correct Gearoid but diminishing the 4yr.olds existence as some bloggers did is reprehensible.If only he was white and named caylee.
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Gearoid4 | Jul 11, 2011, 05:37 PM EDT
Well, Olovely, there is no contradiction about loving the sinner and hating the sin. Even you in your clumsy, desperate attempts to smear everyone who has Faith with the same brush should hopefully see that. Jesus' refusal to join in the chorus of condemnation of the woman accused of Adultery(John 8: 3-11)was tempered by His instruction to her to walk away from the path of wrong-doing-..." When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more." This is the template for Christians to follow regarding their attitude to those who lifestyle is in conflict with the gospels. We are all in need of God's mercy and grace as no-one can throw the first stone in that regard. Again, Eiriamac, because some-one disagrees on principle with concepts such as 'gay-marriage' does not make them unreconstructed bigots. This specious,false compassion which people use to emotionally blackmail those who believe in traditional marriage does not really advance the cause of people of homosexual orientation. I abhor violence against anybody whatever their colour, creed or sexual orientation. But certain christian precepts cannot be bargained down to the lowest common denominator and must be held on to with conviction.
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eiriamach | Jul 11, 2011, 03:40 PM EDT
If you can't blame the victims of hate crimes for being "unnatural," then you'll blame the victims for being "idiotic." It seems you are determined to blame the victims! No one has lumped all people of religion into the same category. Once again: anti-gay preaching and lobbying of state legislatures (as in NYS leading up to passing the marriage equality act) *causes* some people to act out their hatred in criminal ways. At basis, it is the same phenomenon as the murders of gynecologists who provide abortion services. Hearing a "man of God" speak or write against equality for diverse sexual orientations triggers the bigotry neurons in the brains of the bigots. Hate speech or violence or both follow! That's how it works. What is difficult to understand about that? The solution: stop preaching and lobbying against equal rights under the law. Stop insisting on having targets for bigotry.
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