Comments on: Why Haven’t Georgetown’s 2 Gay Bashing Victims Reported What Happened to the Cops? http://www.queerty.com/why-havent-georgetowns-2-gay-bashing-victims-reported-what-happened-to-the-cops-20091103/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.queerty.com/why-havent-georgetowns-2-gay-bashing-victims-reported-what-happened-to-the-cops-20091103/#comment-232573 Joe Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:55:29 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=73245#comment-232573 Bill, I'm a gay catholic at Georgetown. The university is the first Catholic university in the nation to establish a progressive LGBTQ Resource Center. Jesuit priests, wearing their collars, spoke out against the violence at the vigil you see above. The university president sent out an email calling the violence unacceptable... precisely because we're a Catholic university. I get where you're coming from, but I just don't think you can say all Catholics are the same. Yes, it's part of what's causing a culture of homophobia here, but it's coming from the church hierarchy and the more elite/entitled students. DC Archbishop Wuerl is your target. Rich conservative people are also your target. Bill, I’m a gay catholic at Georgetown. The university is the first Catholic university in the nation to establish a progressive LGBTQ Resource Center. Jesuit priests, wearing their collars, spoke out against the violence at the vigil you see above. The university president sent out an email calling the violence unacceptable… precisely because we’re a Catholic university.

I get where you’re coming from, but I just don’t think you can say all Catholics are the same. Yes, it’s part of what’s causing a culture of homophobia here, but it’s coming from the church hierarchy and the more elite/entitled students. DC Archbishop Wuerl is your target. Rich conservative people are also your target.

]]> By: Bill http://www.queerty.com/why-havent-georgetowns-2-gay-bashing-victims-reported-what-happened-to-the-cops-20091103/#comment-232104 Bill Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:32:08 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=73245#comment-232104 Where are these heterosexual morals I keep hearing them scream their silly breeder heads off about? Why aren't the Mormons and Catholics and Christians speaking out to condemn this type of violence? Oh, wait... They condone it. As long as it's just the fags and dykes. When do WE bash them BACK? Enough is enough. Where are these heterosexual morals I keep hearing them scream their silly breeder heads off about?

Why aren’t the Mormons and Catholics and Christians speaking out to condemn this type of violence? Oh, wait… They condone it. As long as it’s just the fags and dykes.

When do WE bash them BACK?

Enough is enough.

]]> By: Cam http://www.queerty.com/why-havent-georgetowns-2-gay-bashing-victims-reported-what-happened-to-the-cops-20091103/#comment-231980 Cam Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:41:26 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=73245#comment-231980 Often the DC police will try to avoid filing, I know of one person who had his house robbed, the stuff from his house was found in the house of one of the theives. The kid was under age and the mother claimed she didn't know anything was in there. The police wouldn't file charges because they said it wasn't a solid enough case. I'm guessing they are not really eagar to file in this case either. Often the DC police will try to avoid filing, I know of one person who had his house robbed, the stuff from his house was found in the house of one of the theives. The kid was under age and the mother claimed she didn’t know anything was in there. The police wouldn’t file charges because they said it wasn’t a solid enough case. I’m guessing they are not really eagar to file in this case either.

]]> By: Joe Hoya http://www.queerty.com/why-havent-georgetowns-2-gay-bashing-victims-reported-what-happened-to-the-cops-20091103/#comment-231934 Joe Hoya Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:50:20 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=73245#comment-231934 We've heard from friends of both victims that the victims in both cases actually *are* talking to police. This could easily be the Metropolitan Police Department just saying things to cover up their own inability to pursue a hate crime case. I was the victim of another assault in Washington DC a few months ago, and the officers on the scene laughed at us. It took days of us calling them to get them to go forward with the case. ... And our attacker eventually pleaded guilty! I'd take the MPD's statements with a big old grain of salt. We’ve heard from friends of both victims that the victims in both cases actually *are* talking to police. This could easily be the Metropolitan Police Department just saying things to cover up their own inability to pursue a hate crime case. I was the victim of another assault in Washington DC a few months ago, and the officers on the scene laughed at us. It took days of us calling them to get them to go forward with the case. … And our attacker eventually pleaded guilty! I’d take the MPD’s statements with a big old grain of salt.

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