Yes, the anti-Bible Study group is only for killing babies when they are
completely innocent, before they act like anything!

RogerN


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Subject: Man fatally beats toddler 'to make him act like a boy instead of
a
girl'
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 5:00 PM





By Megan Coffey, Sonoma County Civil Rights Examiner

In a horrible tragedy on Long Island's Shinnecock Indian Reservation, a
20-year-old man is accused of beating to death the 17-month-old boy he was
babysitting. Pedro Jones told police he beat the child with closed fists
in an
effort to "make [the toddler] act like a boy instead of a little girl."

Jones, who is the boyfriend of the victim's mother, claimed the child's
August 2
death was an accident because he (Jones) "never struck that kid that hard
before," indicating that the abuse was not an isolated incident. Indeed,
Asst.
D.A. Robert Biancavilla told the court at Jones' arraignment that there
was
evidence of internal injuries to the child dating back to April 2010, when
Jones
first began babysitting for the boy, whose name was Roy Jones (not related
to
his alleged killer).

Pedro Jones was indicted on August 11 by a grand jury on charges of
second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and endangering the
welfare of a
child. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty.

Roy Jones's shocking murder is not without precedent. A similar case
occurred
in January 2005 in Tampa, Florida, where a man beat his own three-year-old
son
to death "in an effort to prevent him from being gay." Ronnie Paris, Jr.
was
eventually convicted of the murder of Ronnie Antonio Paris, and was
sentenced to
30 years. Is it just a coincidence that the killer was a member of a
Bible
study group at the time of the murder?

It is horrible enough that violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender adults is still rampant in our society. It is arguably even
more
tragic when hate violence erupts against LGBT teenagers like California's
Lawrence King and Gwen Araujo.

But when our culture's antipathy toward gays and non-gender-conforming
people
results in the brutal murder of toddlers, words are not adequate to
describe the
devastating enormity of that act.

Still, it is important to remember that the deadly homophobia and
transphobia of
Pedro Jones and Ronnie Paris, Jr. did not occur in a vacuum. All the
hatemongers of the so-called Religious Right--Focus on the Family, the
Family
Research Council, and the American Family Association, to name a few--have
a
share in the responsibility for Roy Jones's and Ronnie Antonio Paris's
murders.

If only those who peddle hate speech against LGBT Americans were to
recognize
the execrable consequences of their anti-gay propaganda, perhaps our
nation
could avoid another tragedy like the hate crime killings of these innocent
little children--or, for that matter, attacks on non-gender-conforming
individuals of any age.
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