Louisiana Man Charged With Attempted Murder In Violent Anti-Gay Attack

Surveillance video shows that a vicious attack on 52-year-old John Skaggs in a Shreveport, Louisiana tavern was totally unprovoked.  Several eye witnesses, including the owner of the Sandbar, said the victim was a regular patron at the bar and never bothered anyone, and had never even made eye contact with the attacker, William Payne.  Payne had told someone in the bar that he knew Skaggs was gay and that he was going to go beat him up.  Fucking sick.

face of ignorance: gaybasher William Payne

 

This comes from only one place: the church.  Christian leaders are working overtime to desensitize their flocks to violence and to encourage them to break the law (as declared in the Manhattan Declaration by Chuck Colson, a convicted felon from the Nixon administration).

Keith Bardwell resigns

LOUSYANA

(from PHB) – Keith Bardwell, the Louisiana Justice of the Peace who refused a license to an interracial couple, has resigned under pressure from several state officials all the way up to the governor, Bobby Jindal.

Good riddance …

I said good riddance to Louisiana in 2006 after living in that absolute hell hole for 26 years.