When the Hate Crime Is On the Other Foot
This telling commentary about the arrest of Alabama church arson suspects was posted in the online blog for Seattle's alternative weekly paper, "The Stranger" (the Seattle version of the "City Pages")...
Please God, Please…
Posted by DAN
SAVAGE at 11:37 AM
...let them be straight
Authorities have arrested three college students in connection with a spate of fires that damaged or destroyed 10 Baptist churches in Alabama, investigators said on Wednesday. Prosecutors identified the suspects as Ben Moseley and Russell Debusk, 19-year-old students at Birmingham-Southern College, and Matthew Lee Cloyd, 20, who transferred last year from Birmingham-Southern to attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Not that you could blame gay people for burning down Baptist churches, what with all the gay-bashing that eminates from them. But it would be, er, kind of a bad day for the gay rights movement.
Yeah, that's the important thing, how this might affect the gay rights movement. Not the thousands of terrified parishoners, the costly damage, the fact that someone could have been killed or any of that silly stuff.
"Not that you could blame..." who is it that's intollerant, again?
The handwringing continues in the comments section (a few excerpts)....
__________"Acquaintances said DeBusk and Moseley were both amateur actors who were known as pranksters and dreamed of becoming stars. They performed in campus plays and appeared in a documentary film."
Well, it could have been worse - they could have been aspiring dancers.
__________
Two of them are theatre majors. Thier Het status is on shaky ground. But they werent dancers so I give em a 50-50 chance.
__________
One of the kids looks like he might be wearing a black turtleneck. I bet they find bottled water in his room.
If the "hate crime" idea has crossed the mind of this group, the MSM has to have considered it as well. Yet, they are predictably silent on the possibility, praying the same little prayer that is the title of Mr. Savage's post.
posted by Nordeaster | 10:15 AM
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Just out of curiosity, why would their sexuality occur to anyone?
I only scanned a couple of other posts by this writer, but I think that is the lens through which he views a lot of issues and a key topic of the blog. This is an alternative paper, afterall.
I think the answer to your question can be found in this statement by Mr. Savage.
"Not that you could blame gay people for burning down Baptist churches, what with all the gay-bashing that eminates from them."
There is a question of motive. As it stands, the suspects state that it was a "joke that went to far". But why churches and not homes or coffee shops or warehouses or whatever other type of building?
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