Saturday, October 2, 2010
Things stay the same
This week Tyler Clementi a Rutgers University student committed suicide. If I just wrote that you would likely say " why didn't he talk to someone or what made him do that?". I would also offer this tidbit, he was a gay college student that was secretly web streamed having a encounter with another man. The two college mates Molly Wei and Dharun Ravi are accused of using a camera hidden in a dorm room to transmit online a gay sexual encounter involving Ravi's roommate. How sick and pathetic are these two losers? I'm a heterosexual male and I love Jesus, but I am not judging this young man or his lifestyle, after all it was his life to lead, but when you have people such as these two that may have thought that showing the world wide web someones sexual encounter with another adult than I have a problem. I am sure that when Tyler Clementi discovered what had happened the embarrassment he must have felt was unspeakable and felt like there was noway out. The stories of harassment of gays have been ongoing for decades, but I thought it was really getting better. I see openly gay people all the time and I don't turn my head. I wonder...did they thank it was funny to show this to the world or was a issue of outing? Whatever the case these two idiots should be held to fullest extent of the law! I see this as a hate crime that resulted in a persons death! I feel that as a people we should be more understanding of different races, genders, and religions. How did this happen? I think that they viewed Tyler as subhuman and as someone's sexual orientation made him a target for this kind of crime. He was a human being that liked who he liked, and we can not hold that against him. He was just 18 years old, and who knows what great things he could have done in this life, maybe invented the longer lasting light bub! It was not their right to pass opinion on how he's life to be seen, and they did and a price was paid in this young mans death! I call for really a example to be made of the two that committed this and let it be known that this type of behavior will not be tolerated by anyone! How many more people must suffer in silent? "Don't ask, Don't tell" is just a way of keeping gays out of sight and public policy allows gays to still be discarded in sociality. Maybe Tyler kept his lifestyle to himself because we would have made Tyler fell like some sort of monster? I wish he would have turned to anyone and reported those two to the police!!! He never had a chance, maybe in his death more can come out and be heard by saying " I'm not gay, I am human".
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