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« on: December 10, 2002, 10:37:26 AM »
This is not so amazing when you consider the circumstances.  If it was a homosexual that was the victim, it would be headlines.  However in this case it was the other way around.  I am not surprised one bit.  The following artical was taken froma  Christian news publication. Media Overlooks Hate Crime
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Concern has been voiced that a hate crime was committed when a 19-year-old homosexual man murdered a Catholic woman in Chicago after she questioned his sexual orientation, but the story has escaped the media spotlight.

Nicholas Gutierrez lived in the apartment above a funeral home on the northwest side of Chicago where 51-year-old Mary Stachowicz, a devout and outspoken Catholic, worked part-time. The woman's body was discovered in a crawl space beneath the apartment, and Gutierrez was charged with her murder Nov. 16.

Reports say Gutierrez confessed to the crime during a videotaped interrogation and explained that he had become furious when Stachowicz asked him, "Why do you [have sex with] boys instead of girls?"

Gutierrez at one time worked as a janitor at the funeral home, so the two knew each other. Apparently the woman had questioned the young man on occasion about his lifestyle, and he claimed that the way she talked to him gave him flashbacks to his mother.

Police said Gutierrez became enraged after Stachowicz questioned him about his sexual orientation and then punched, kicked and stabbed the victim until he was tired. Then he placed a plastic garbage bag over her head and strangled her.

Despite the uniqueness of the tragedy, the mainstream media has paid little attention. A number of conservatives are drawing a stark contrast to the way the media handled the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual man who was murdered by three heterosexual men in Wyoming after he propositioned them in a bar.

"If a gay man had been murdered for trying to convince someone to be gay, it would be a national news story and be deemed a hate crime. But when a gay man murders a woman who tried to convince him to change, the media spike the story," said Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst for the Culture and Family Institute for Concerned Women for America. "If Matthew Shepard's murder deserved national media attention, then why not Mary Stachowicz's?"

LaBarbera said the Culture and Family Institute will monitor the coverage of the case as they have in other cases involving anti-religious bigotry.

"It appears that Mary Stachowicz was murdered for sharing her Catholic beliefs," LaBarbera said. "This case tragically displays the intense hatred for Christianity that exists among some in the homosexual community."

Rod Dreher, a senior staff writer for National Review, also believes the media was unnecessarily quiet regarding Stachowicz's murder compared to Shepard's.

"There is no moral difference between these acts," Dreher wrote in his Nov. 26 column. "Both were heinous, and both deserve publicity. Yet the American media made Matthew Shepard an overnight cause celebre, and have so far said very little about Mary Stachowicz -- just as the media said very little about Jesse Dirkhising, the 13-year-old Arkansas boy raped, tortured and strangled by homosexuals in 1999."

Dreher went on to quote Andrew Sullivan, who he said was "probably the most articulate gay-rights advocate in journalism."

"What we are seeing, I fear, is a logical consequence of the culture that hate-crimes rhetoric promotes," Sullivan wrote in a 2001 New Republic article about the media bias in the Shepard and Dirkhising cases. "Some deaths -- if they affect a politically protected class -- are worth more than others. Other deaths, those that do not fit a politically correct profile, are left to oblivion."

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© 2002 Maranatha Christian News Service

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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2002, 10:50:33 AM »
What a surprise! A conservative christian organization wants to call this a hate crime.  As my old buddy Slick Willie would say, "Define hate crive".

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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2002, 10:54:26 AM »
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As my old buddy Slick Willie would say, "Define hate crive".

That's the problem, only someone like Slick Willie can define 'hate crime'.  The rest of us call it 'murder'.

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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2002, 10:55:49 AM »
the super highway of american political-justice system is a one way street
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« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2002, 11:34:16 AM »
" The following artical was taken froma Christian news publication."


that speaks volumes by itself..

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« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2002, 11:43:51 AM »
Hawk-

Did it happen or didn't it? Agree or disagree with the rest of the article, but either the events happened or they didn't.

Double-standards most certainly do abound in our society.

Only blacks are allowed use the word "cupcake".

Only women have a prayer of winning a sexual harrassment suit.

Not that it matters if this made headline news or not, but blacks, gays, and women's rights are sacred cows to the media.

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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2002, 11:48:28 AM »
I would not call it a "hate crime". She pissed him off by bagering him on multiple occasions - that is not a good reason to kill a person.
 But it was the fact of her badgering that triggered him, not the content of her nagging. There are plenty of people around not approving of gay lifestyle and he did not hurt them.

...was murdered for sharing her Catholic beliefs...

 Now one should share his or her beliefs by intruding on a person's privacy against his wishes.

 "Hate Crime" idea may be contrary to the ideals of justice but the meaning of it is pretty specific. The Christian News Service is way off the mark here - as well as with the other examples they cited.

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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2002, 11:51:03 AM »
hate crime....crime is crime- all crimes are hate crimes, the whole concept of 'hate crime' is stupid.

it is amusing though,  that this is the best example they could dig up- it doesn't really enhance their case and is kinda embarrasing really. y'all couldn't find something clearer than this?

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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2002, 12:11:19 PM »
I agree.  I think that part of the reason why the media no longer highlights these types of crimes is that people have come to the realization that murder is murder.  Attaching "hate" to the front of it is idiotic.

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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2002, 12:13:57 PM »
Why is it so hard to understand that there are groups of people who need protection from discrimination, and groups of people who don't.

Simple conservative common sense seems to get thrown out the window when it comes to minority protection.

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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2002, 12:15:59 PM »
I agree. I think that part of the reason why the media no longer highlights these types of crimes

Of course it does. Liberal media attaches "hate" to any crime against blacks or homosexuals by whites and straights.

 This particular christian outlet just tried to do the reverse trick and serve it as "christian-hating".

 There are instances of racially motivated or homophobia-motivated crime in US - if not as many as may be presented.

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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2002, 12:18:17 PM »
Murder is not discrimination.  Making 'hate' an aggravating circumstance for murder makes murder itself a less serious crime.

Liberals talking about common sense.   :rolleyes:

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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2002, 12:19:34 PM »
MT that is total BS! There is NO group out there that needs more protection than others!!

All that is out there is whinny bellybutton so called minorities who won't accept who they are and that no matter what they say NO one owes them anything!
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2002, 12:19:53 PM »
midnight Target:
Simple conservative common sense seems to get thrown out the window when it comes to minority protection.


 Simple conservative common sense does not even consider "minority" as a valid legal category. People are individuals and should be protected as individuals against violence whatever is the reason behind the attacker.

 How come my life is less valuable if I am not a member of legally recognised minority?

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« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2002, 12:21:10 PM »
"Gutierrez at one time worked as a janitor at the funeral home, so the two knew each other. Apparently the woman had questioned the young man on occasion about his lifestyle, and he claimed that the way she talked to him gave him flashbacks to his mother."

Apart from the obvious fact that he murdered someone I think this line goes to show he had issues.  It wasn't a hate crime.

As far as the media issue goes, the US media loves big stories, are driven by money, and aren't consistent....so what's your point?


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