I talked in a recent diary about the “murder is wrong, but…” mentality many people seem to have. Blaming the victim is a common tactic in cases from rape to assault to murder, but it seems to have a special place on the anti-gay right. To these sick bastards, if a gay child is bullied, it’s not because the bully is an insecure homophobe, it’s because the victim is too flamboyant, too far out of the “norm,” too much for the poor bully to handle. We’re seeing the same line of reasoning in the case of Larry King, the gay 15-year-old who was brutally murdered, execution-style, by a white supremacist with neo-Nazi sympathies in front of his entire computer class.
Given his track record, only Randy Thomasson, the leader of the hate group Save California, could so openly and shamelessly find a way to exonerate Brandon McInerney, the person who shot Larry King in the head twice. Others have tried and come close, but only Thomasson could go all the way and make the bold and audacious claim that it was King, not McInerney, who was truly responsible for this killing.
Yesterday, just a day after news broke that we lost yet another LGBT teen to bullying-induced suicide (these assholes really have good timing, don’t they?), Thomasson spoke with Christian radio host Janet Mefferd on the air. Starting off with his familiar tirades against anti-bullying programs and the “brainwashing” of students by California public schools, he decided to move on to discuss the Larry King case. Listen below (notice how Janet Mefferd emits an “ick” when Thomasson is talking about King):
If you can’t watch the video, here’s the transcript of Thomasson’s rant, courtesy of Right Wing Watch:
The homosexual activists are saying, ‘well we have to do this so that we won’t have another Larry King,’ now we’re not talking about the old former talk show host from CNN, we’re talking about a kid in Oxnard, California, who was about fourteen years-old and he was shot dead by a classmate. Now Larry King was saying he was homosexual but he also was a cross-dresser and he had a bad teacher who actually got him a girl’s dress and taught him how to put makeup on. And it came out in court that this boy was parading around in makeup and high heels in front of a classmate outside on a bench and the fifteen year-old Larry King was walking back and forth and saying, ‘you know you want me, you know you want me.’ And there was a lot of anger that another teacher saw on the boy’s face who was being tautened, I mean who’s harassing whom?
This was a very disturbed boy who was being harassed, who was sitting on the bench, so when he was being harassed by King he went home and he got his dad’s gun and he came back the next day and he killed Larry King. But the whole point is, why in the world would you let two wrongs to be done? Murder is wrong, but allowing reverse harassment to be done and allowing teachers to actually dress up boys as girls, this is causing tension, it’s causing sexual tension, it’s causing emotional tension and this is not anything that goes along with the purpose of academics. This is social engineering. So whenever you hear ‘bullying’ from the homosexual activists, think indoctrination. And it’s coming to all fifty states, I’m sorry but it is one way or the other, get your kids into godly schools and do the sacrifice of time or money and realize that you only have a few years with your children, otherwise they’re going to become liberal adults and call you bigots.
That’s right. It’s not about how King was shot twice in the head and left in cold blood in front of his teacher and classmates. It’s about how McInerney was the victim of “reverse harassment.” How else was McInerney supposed to react? Premeditating a murder, picking up a gun, and shooting somebody in the head is completely understandable given the “reverse harassment” he was suffering, right?
When are these bigots just going to stop trying to sound compassionate at all? How long before Thomasson and his homophobic ilk decide to stop preceding everything they say with “murder is wrong” and just go all the way and say, “The queer deserved it”? They’re so close to saying how they really feel. There’s no point in bottling it up anymore, because we can see the hatred for gay victims seeping out of every word they utter.