Is BlahBlah homophobic?

[Thee Gnartical Adventure]

i skipped the boards for one day and there is a new 8 page thread?

do i even need to explain why i skipped a day?

[Sleef]

abridged version:  live and let live.

Thank you.

[bailgun]

anytime.

[hardcoreskates]

calling it a mental illness sounds a bit over board, but that's actually kindof what it is. there's nothing wrong with being gay at all though.

this is whats wrong with society.

stating facts is whats wrong with society ?

Listen dummy...

Read this article, and then tell me who is mentally ill.


Gay Wyoming College Student Dies After Beating


 
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Reuters) - A University of Wyoming student savagely beaten in an apparent hate crime because he was gay died early Monday, a Colorado hospital said.

Rulon Stacey, chief executive officer of the Poudre Valley Health System, told reporters Matthew Shepard, 21, died at 12:53 a.m. MDT (2:53 a.m. EDT) Monday. His family was at his bedside.

Shepard had been breathing with the aid of a ventilator since being found last Wednesday night beaten and tied for some 18 hours to a wooden fence where he was left to die just outside Laramie, Wyoming, a small college town.

He suffered a severe skull fracture and was burned in the attack. Police said the college student begged for his life.

Shepard was found by a passing motorist who at first thought that the figure on a fence post was a scarecrow.

He died of his injuries rather than being removed from life support by his parents, Stacey said.

``They did not have to come to a point in the process where they were forced to make a decision. Life support remained with Matthew throughout the process,'' Stacey said.

``In fact they said (as) the caring son that he was, he was able to remove from them the guilt or stress of having to make that decision,'' said the hospital administrator, nearly breaking into tears.

His parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, flew to Colorado from Saudi Arabia where the father works in the oil industry. Stacey said the parents were overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for their son.

Two men are in custody for the attack and their girlfriends, who allegedly provided them an alibi and helped hide bloody clothes, have been charged as accessories after the fact.

Police following the attack lodged attempted first-degree murder charges against the two men and said the charges could be upgraded.

The attack on Shepard, who reportedly lived an openly gay life, was condemned by President Clinton and the governor of Wyoming as well as ordinary citizens who appeared at vigils in honor of the student.

Police believe robbery as well as gay bashing was a motivation in the crime.

Bill McKinney, the father of suspect Aaron McKinney, and Kristen Price, Aaron's girlfriend who was also charged in the case, have said the two men accused of the attack targeted Shepard because he had flirted with Aaron McKinney at a bar and embarrassed him, a published report said Sunday.

The attack in Laramie, Wyoming, a small western town with a popular of 26,000, stunned residents and prompted calls for more anti-hate crime legislation.

The hospital had been flooded with flowers and Rulon said messages from people came from around the world and were in the thousands.

[elastic back]

calling it a mental illness sounds a bit over board, but that's actually kindof what it is. there's nothing wrong with being gay at all though.

this is whats wrong with society.

stating facts is whats wrong with society ?

my opinion is just as valid as yours.

i see your confusion. you don't know the difference between a fact and an opinion. it is a fact that homosexuality is NOT a mental illness. you are a prejudice midwestern pothead gamer that thinks (kind of an oxymoron in this case) that the facts are wrong, hence an opinion contrary to the fact. i am not a psychologist, but i can guarantee that most (if not all, minus some unqualified religious fools) would agree with me and disprove you. Find me a credible source from the past 5 years stating that homosexuality is a mental illness.

[bailgun]

hmmm. an opinion backed by facts.

stunning.

[boymachine]

calling it a mental illness sounds a bit over board, but that's actually kindof what it is. there's nothing wrong with being gay at all though.

this is whats wrong with society.

stating facts is whats wrong with society ?

Listen dummy...

Read this article, and then tell me who is mentally ill.


Gay Wyoming College Student Dies After Beating


 
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Reuters) - A University of Wyoming student savagely beaten in an apparent hate crime because he was gay died early Monday, a Colorado hospital said.

Rulon Stacey, chief executive officer of the Poudre Valley Health System, told reporters Matthew Shepard, 21, died at 12:53 a.m. MDT (2:53 a.m. EDT) Monday. His family was at his bedside.

Shepard had been breathing with the aid of a ventilator since being found last Wednesday night beaten and tied for some 18 hours to a wooden fence where he was left to die just outside Laramie, Wyoming, a small college town.

He suffered a severe skull fracture and was burned in the attack. Police said the college student begged for his life.

Shepard was found by a passing motorist who at first thought that the figure on a fence post was a scarecrow.

He died of his injuries rather than being removed from life support by his parents, Stacey said.

``They did not have to come to a point in the process where they were forced to make a decision. Life support remained with Matthew throughout the process,'' Stacey said.

``In fact they said (as) the caring son that he was, he was able to remove from them the guilt or stress of having to make that decision,'' said the hospital administrator, nearly breaking into tears.

His parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, flew to Colorado from Saudi Arabia where the father works in the oil industry. Stacey said the parents were overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for their son.

Two men are in custody for the attack and their girlfriends, who allegedly provided them an alibi and helped hide bloody clothes, have been charged as accessories after the fact.

Police following the attack lodged attempted first-degree murder charges against the two men and said the charges could be upgraded.

The attack on Shepard, who reportedly lived an openly gay life, was condemned by President Clinton and the governor of Wyoming as well as ordinary citizens who appeared at vigils in honor of the student.

Police believe robbery as well as gay bashing was a motivation in the crime.

Bill McKinney, the father of suspect Aaron McKinney, and Kristen Price, Aaron's girlfriend who was also charged in the case, have said the two men accused of the attack targeted Shepard because he had flirted with Aaron McKinney at a bar and embarrassed him, a published report said Sunday.

The attack in Laramie, Wyoming, a small western town with a popular of 26,000, stunned residents and prompted calls for more anti-hate crime legislation.

The hospital had been flooded with flowers and Rulon said messages from people came from around the world and were in the thousands.

thats so fucked up someone would do that to a person just because of his sexual orientation. it still doesn't prove anything though. this is getting out of hand,  it started with me making a comment about gay pride day and then people taking it way to serious.

[boymachine]

and for the record, just because there mentally ill because of being gay doesn't mean there actually mentallly ill, it's just an unbalnced chemicals or some shit in the brain that makes them attracted to men, and thats about it. other then that their completely normal. i don't have any disrespect for them what so ever.

[Paper/Scissors]

it's just an unbalnced chemicals or some shit in the brain that makes them attracted to men

ZOMG NOBEL PIECE PRIZE FTW!

[hardcoreskates]

and for the record, just because there mentally ill because of being gay doesn't mean there actually mentallly ill, it's just an unbalnced chemicals or some shit in the brain that makes them attracted to men, and thats about it. other then that their completely normal. i don't have any disrespect for them what so ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o

[boymachine]

thanks for the giggle