LETTER: Gays aren’t just victims

Dear Editor,

Spring is here. The birds are out, the blossoms have bloomed and warmer temperatures are upon us. It also means the inevitable: The homosexuals around campus are about to have their big Gay Day at USU. Their “in-your-face” tactics to “educate” and shock the public will undoubtedly include their renderings of the 1999 Matthew Shepard killing in Wyoming. They will, as they have in years past, tell everyone of the plight of this young man who was viciously beaten and left for dead, tied to a fence in the middle of nowhere. What they will not tell you is about the murder of young Jesse Dirkhising, also in 1999. The 13-year-old Arkansas boy was abducted by two homosexuals and, over the course of a weekend, was bound, blindfolded, gagged with his own underwear, repeatedly raped while unconscious and sodomized by a number of foreign objects wielded by the two gay men in an apparent sex-torture fantasy gone bad.

For reasons that are not clear to me, the gays on campus have made such a big deal out of the Matthew Shepard killing over the past couple of years, when two of their own not only killed, but robbed a 13-year-old of his virtue in a most disturbing manner. Now, is this because the gays claim that the Shepard killing was a hate crime and the other was not? I don’t know if hate was the motive, but to me, the Dirkhising murder involved pedophilia, sexual perversion and deviance, heinous cruelty and moral dementia, which are not exactly wholesome virtues, either (that is, unless Jeffrey Dahmer is your role model).

In addition, I think the Dirkhising murder was far more serious and vicious than the Shepard killing. But gays love portraying themselves as the victims, not the villains. They will not mention the Dirkhising murder, since they want the world to think that gays are not capable of committing such atrocities. They want us to believe that they are only capable of being the victims of such atrocities.

Dave Bethers