Even death doesn't end the violence against LGBT people

The Associated Press tells this horrific story via the Boston Herald:

THIES, Senegal — Even death cannot stop the violence against gays in this corner of the world any more.

Madieye Diallo’s body had been in the ground for only a few hours when the mob descended on the weedy cemetery with shovels. They yanked out the corpse, spit on its torso, dragged it away and dumped it in front of the home of his elderly parents.

The scene of May 2, 2009 was filmed on a cell phone and the video sold at the market. It passed from phone to phone, sowing panic among gay men who say they now feel like hunted animals.

There are people who will tell you with a straight face a) that it is culturally imperialistic to attempt to change the kinds of attitudes that inform this violence and b) that no member church in the Anglican Communion has any business ordaining LGBT priests and bishops until such attitudes change.

Posted by Jim Naughton on April 12, 2010 9:04 PM | |
Comments (3)

Animals only dig up the dead for food. Those who are egging this on are responsible for great evil.

Paige Baker

Posted by paigeb [TypeKey Profile Page] | April 12, 2010 10:39 PM

In desecrating the dead, these people are desecrating the image of God in which all human beings are made. Does nobody understand Galatians 6:7 anymore: "You reap what you sow"? Or Matthew 7:12: "Treat others the way you want them to treat you"? The last of the traditional seven Christian works of physical mercy is burying the dead -- not digging them up, spitting on them and abusing them. That's just plain demonic.

Gregory Orloff

Posted by Gregory [TypeKey Profile Page] | April 12, 2010 11:40 PM

What´s the difference?

The same weakspirited degenerates who are inspired by crackpot despotic religious zealots who ¨refuse Communion¨ and/or show sickly Gay porno in Church or claim LGBT people are pedophiles and Heterosexuals have simply ¨nature gone amuck¨ are near beyond hope...they are two bit liars on the farside of the cusp of insane!

Gossiping/Squealing and PREACHING about US, slandering US, abusing US, refusing US, wounding US, demonizing US and then then killing US (or having vulnerable ¨followers¨ do it after saturating them with over the top spiritual soul-sick selling)...digging us up after we are dead, spitting on us, and then delivering us to OUR lovedones is the ONLY THING LEFT for the gullible wretches TO DO! Unfortunately they forget that we may also have gone to ¨a better place.¨

Have we heard from OUR religious ¨first amongst¨ or is he still stuck in the thickest of cloudy cowardly behavior and denial?

Moral leaders are revealing their non-morals more alarmingly each day (along with the instigators of fear and hate).

Desperation is setting in, best to beat on the dead when the drums no longer make any noise.

Posted by Leonardo Ricardo [TypeKey Profile Page] | April 13, 2010 5:09 PM

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