What is a democracy when a man cant travel without getting beat up for his sexuality? A young gay CTA passenger was taunted by three white collar hooligans On January 10, at around 3 a.m. The three men shoved and taunted the young gay man. Daniel Hauff, 33, came to the young man’s defense, at which point the three assailants turned on Hauff. They used gay slurs, taunted him and punched him repeatedly in the face. Covered in blood he cried he has AIDS to get them to stop hitting him.
Did you think you would wake up to someone having to say they have AIDS to stop people from beating him up?
Sean Little, Benjamin Eder and Kevin McAndrew are being tried with a hate crime accordingly. I hope they get judged to the maximum possible extent of the law. People in this country have to know that this archaic behavior will not be tolerated in a free country.
To set an example for the rest of the country I wish Obama would call for our right to marriage. This would set a example for the country and the world hopefully stunting this growing homophobic epidemic. – Jake
A broadcaster for the BBC’s Inside Out programme smothered his ailing lover to spare him from “terrible pain”.
Police are investigating after the Nottingham film-maker said he had a pact with the deceased man to act if his suffering increased.
During a documentary on death and dying, Ray Gosling, 70, said: “I killed someone once. He’d been my lover and he got Aids.
“I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead. No regrets.”
Mr Gosling said he smothered his former lover while he was in a hospital -- which he did not name -- after doctors told him that there was nothing further that could be done for him.
“I said to the doctor: ‘Leave me… just for a bit,’ and he went away.
“I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead.
“The doctor came back and I said: ‘He’s gone.’ Nothing more was ever said.
“When you love someone, it is difficult to see them suffer. My feelings on euthanasia are like jelly -- they wobble about.
“This is the time to share a secret I have kept for quite a long time.”
Nottinghamshire Police have started an inquiry.
A spokesman said: “We were not aware of Mr Gosling’s comments until the BBC Inside Out programme was shown.
“We are now liaising with the BBC and will investigate the matter.”
Dr Peter Saunders, of pressure group Care Not Killing, said the facts need to come out in court.
Ray Gosling: “We’d got an agreement -- if it got worse, the pain, and nobody could do anything”
Dr Saunders said: “We have a case, by Ray’s account, not of assisted suicide but of intentional killing or murder.”
Assisted suicide remains a criminal offence, but interim guidelines issued in September by the director of public prosecutions set out the factors which weigh in favour of and against prosecution in different cases in England and Wales.
Last month Kay Gilderdale, 55, of Stonegate, East Sussex, was cleared of the attempted murder of her severely ill daughter who had ME. Mrs Gilderdale had administered lethal drugs to end 31-year-old Lynn Gilderdale’s life after her daughter called her for help when her own attempts at suicide failed.
Days before that another mother, Frances Inglis, 57, of Dagenham, east London, was jailed for nine years for murder after she injected her brain-damaged son Thomas, 22, with a lethal dose of heroin. Read more……..
These are the most disgusting words I have ever heard in my 25 years of living on this earth. I will tear this apart from the top.
First of all, he claims gays in the army will cause people not to joim. I was in the army. I am gay, and it did not matter. When the possibility of dying looms before you the only thing you mind is someone who will watch your back and that has nothing to do with your sexuality.
If gays will be open in the army people wont join
If you enlist in the army its because you need the money or you believe in the cause. You don’t look at the demographics.
Soldiers wont be ready to serve with all the homosexual activity
When I was in the army, during down time you went to the local bar or brothel to pick up a chick. When in war, sex is not permitted and punishable by death. Yet people do hook up, what difference will it make if some of those people are gay? The same punishment will be done to gay sex as straight sex. Why will gay people be more busy with sex with straight men? You don’t think the str8 guys aren’t horny for available women?
Hurricane Katrina happened because of ‘Southern Decadence’ in New Orleans
First of all how can you say that when southern decadence happened years before Katrina. Second of all, why did the actual area where southern decadence happened sustained no water damage? I served during hurricane Katrina and i swear the gay district was barley harmed.
Haiti’s earthquake happened because of the rampant homosexual activity there
Everyone knows Caribbean culture is not fond of homosexuality. So why them? If anything maybe Texas, named the gayest state in the country!
Sept 11 happened because of the gays in New York
Ummmm lets think this through. When people said 911 happened because of America support of the Jewish state that was wrong, but this is fine? If that was the case, you thank the Muslims for bombing us because they fulfilled gods word. So, your God wanted us to die so, according to you god bless Bin Laden? I don’t want your god you sick man.
This is beyond anything I could imagine; watching someone talk about something they have no insight in. God said a man shall not lay with a man, he never commanded hate, he never commanded judgement. Even the Talmud says you cannot know go by events. you are a simpleton who read the Talmud and decided he would represent the entire Jewish community and fight a war no one asked you to wage. Even God who said he does not tolerate homosexuality did not tell you to judge it. No where does it say it is your duty to judge your fellow man and exact judgment. Nowhere in the Torah does it say you have to force other people to your beliefs.
You sir are a disgusting creature who has been studying for the past thirty years in a bet mid-rash, you have a wife and kids and you live off whatever you can bring into your life with classes tutoring and classes you give to your thirty students. You are a sad man with a synagogue of a few hundred men and have now decided you stand over the world and you can wear Gods gavel. You are tired with not seeing God in anything you do and you decided to find a place to focus your frustration with life on. You are a sad man and I do not pity you because you do not deserve that. I will promise you this no matter if you are the most firm Jew in the world, you will end up in the wrong place when it is all over for you.
I challenge you to give me one person from the tanach medrash talmud mishna rishonim cetouviam that would have behaved like you. One.
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