Posted on 07/18/2008 9:35:31 PM PDT by mngran2
Violence broke out Sunday in Anderson when an 18-year-old man returned home from a gay pride parade and was assaulted by his father.
According to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, the battering took place about 1 p.m. Sunday on P Street.
During the assault, the teen's 49-year-old father yelled, cursed, swung a baseball bat, prayed and tried to “cast the demon of homosexuality out of him,” according to the teen's version of events to Deputy S.C. Weymouth, the incident report states.
About 2 p.m. Wednesday, the teen said his father punched him when he returned to the house for clothes that he left on Sunday, the report states.
The teen told deputies that his father “has a problem with him being gay and that is why he hit him with the baseball bat Sunday,” Weymouth said in his report.
The teen filed both complaints about 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Deputies, who have not been able to make immediate contact with the teen's father, report that both incidents are under investigation.
Assault is assault. Period.
I somehow don’t think its that simple. He probably came home from the gay pride event in chaps and told his father off.
And so that would make it okay for his father to whack him with a baseball bat?
What kinds of things do you take the baseball bat to your kids for?
SO...it’s ok to hit your son with a baseball bat if he wears chaps and tells you off? I don’t think so. Sorry, that’s like a Muslim beating up his daughter for not wearing a veil. Same thing.
Well, there is a RIGHT to choice of association in this country....although the queer-pandering liberal socialist pols just do it for votes.
Agreed.
Sounds like the gay demon wasn’t cast out.
A Fathers worst nightmare.
Actually, as a father, I’d say my worst nightmare would be a dead son or a sick son.
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Would the father assault the teenager for screwing a married woman?
But I seriously doubt He would take a baseball bat to an errant, off-course young gay kid.
Somebody needs a lot of prayer and Christian witnessing, not black-eye pummeling.
If true, this father seems way out of line IMHO.
Good one Nick. I agree. The most we can do is tell our children the truth and love them and pray for them. Their choices are their own.
I figure the father was probably just drunk or high.
I’m going to have to come down on your side, and the side of a number of other folks here.
It would be hard to have the son you loved turn to homosexuality. It is still not our job to beat sense into them.
When judgment day comes, God will sort the wheat form the chaff. During our lifetime we try to treat people with love.
I view homosexuality very dimly, but I don’t see it as a crime. It is something that I cannot do anything about. I try to treat people with respect.
It would be interesting to hear the other side of the story now.
Can't ignore them until they are teens. Gotta set the path early.
My judgement? Daddy's fault.
/johnny
From a pragmatic standpoint, do you want someone (family or not) who has just returned from the foo-foo festival using your facilities?
Before you dismiss this as nonsense, please state your experience with fomites & decon.
And how do you thing most male homosexuals end up?
I believe, unless I’m mistaken, that Jesus Christ preached to hate the sin, not the sinner.
If hitting him or using a baseball bat would work, I’d think that West Hollywood would look like Yankee Stadium by the weekend.
Yeah that’s right, he should of beat the homo out of him when he was a youngster, that would showed him, hmmm hmmm.
Idiot.
It was daddy's fault. The kid has a lifestyle that kills, is alienated from his father, and the father's action of assault pretty much proves to me that dad screwed up, and the kid is paying for it.
/johnny
I’m not sure what you think dad should be rebuking. Sometimes children,, despite our best efforts, don’t turn out the way we would like.
You do the best you can and pray it’s enough. The Lord has a way of making boastful people humble.
I don’t know if the kids story is true, I do know once you are an adult everything you do is your own fault
Which gay demon?
That took a mommy and a daddy and a lot of sacrificing going out with the guys/girls to the bar, and taking care of our children.
Idiots are the ones that don't train up the child, and when he turns out queer, beat him with a baseball bat.
/johnny
Yep, that Ronnie Reagan sure was an idiot. I mean have you seen his kids?
Blaming the father for the sins of the son is idiotic.
Congratulations on the success of your children, I’m sure you did the best you could.
Let's start with most of what's on Television these last 25 years, and then move to the leftist idiots at the public schools that we let cram mush into our kid's heads, then we can go with rebuking and removing the kid's loser trash friends that are latchkey kids raising themselves (poor kids), but are NOT good peers.
All that takes a lot of effort and time, and does not get you liked by many people.
But it does help produce good kids, when coupled with regular chores, regular play time with the whole family, arms training, mechanical training, deep discussions on philosophy, life, taking responsibility, learning to be empathic, and high-explosives theory... you know, the regular family stuff.
And I raised girls.
/johnny
/johnny
Your instructions for raising children seem just fine to me.
I especailly like the high explosves training, which I had not thought of before :).
My point is that even with all that and more you can’t be sure how junior will turn out. All you can do is give them the love and the tools. The rest is up to them.
I’ll now ask you to forgive my idiot remark. I don’t like to get personal and I do apologize.
For all you know the kid in the article was a product of divorce. Is it still dad’s fault?
Ambivalent.
Some teen kids need an ass whipping. I brought a few on myself.
I would hate to have a homosexual son...God forbid.
The bat was excessive. Very few cakers can fight anyhow.
But, yes, I'd like to hear the other side too.
When my youngest scored expert with grenades, they let her call me from Basic training. I was surprised to get the call. They didn't have phone privs yet. Proudest day of my life.
Point I was trying to make is that it takes a lot of TIME. A LOT OF TIME. Gipper may not have had as much time as I did. He was famous. Actor, Governor, commentator.
I don't blame the Gip for how his kids turned out, but I think he could have changed that. And maybe he wouldn't have been the actor, governor, and President that we all know and love and miss.
And no harm, no foul. I know I'm not an idiot. Dumb sometimes... I'll own that. ;)
/johnny
this is one of those areas where I disagree with my Christian brethren that all homosexuality is conditioned.
conditioning can certainly help....distant dad....coddling mommy (we are sure to have more cakers coming down the pike)
but I've got 5 and I have observed a buttload of kids....some act cakey at 18 months...toddling around....posing femme and pursing lips...
i wonder if moms coddle sissies or do they get sissy from coddling?
the one near constant is an confused relationship with mommy and the inability to view women as sexual objects like a normal man would
but..this may be genetic a bit....who the hell knows.
ain't nothing normal about men blowing men and exploring each others fecal cavity and worse....nothing. that cannot be rationalized away..
don't believe me just cruise some porn....some queer porn will pop in and it will curdle yer damn hair...violent disgusting shite..
this ain't Jane Austen sex with guys huggin and kissin....this is perverse...it just is
I'll never get why men would want that crap...and the incidence of pedophilia and pederasty (chicken hawking) is way disproportionate
they should keep their sex private
Yes. There is always a way. My daughters were the product of a divorce also. But I didn't leave and run wild. I stayed in the neighborhood, and worked with their mom..... for the kids.
It comes down to placing the needs of the kid ahead of your own wants. Even if the divorce has to happen. Not many parents are willing to do that.
But once I made a child, how they turn out, reflects on what kind of person I am. And that includes genetics and environment.
/johnny
On that we can agree. "The love that dare not speak it's name.... just won't shut the F!$k up now."
My view? Ok you are, don't make me support it, pay for it, or pretend that it's like a marriage. When you two have a baby together without outside intervention, maybe I'll rethink #3.
/johnny
Well I agree that putting your children first and commiting the time for them gives them the best chance at a good life.
I just don’t agree that it is always enough.
Front-load your highest success options, then work down the list.
/johnny
The son has free will. Sodomy is against natural law. Go to any hardware store and the clerk will help you understand natural law - two male parts do not fit together. Blaming the parent because he is against Sodomy is right in line with the rest of extreme left idea of morality. Yes, smarten up the son’s ideas!
Reagan’s first two children with Jane Wyman turned out fine although Michael had a tough time growing up - remember his first book? Reagan’s two children with Nancy are a disgrace.
Hitting someone with a baseball bat is ‘assault with a dangerous or deadly weapon’ and could possibly be considered ‘attempted murder’. Both of those offenses are felonies.
Yes, President Reagan was married to Jane Wyman first. They had Maureen naturally and then adopted Michael. Everything that I have read about Maureen, who is now deceased, suggests that she was a pretty solid person who was active in the Republican party. I remember Nancy saying how much she depended on her in caring for the President and how devoted she was to him. I think that we all know that Michael is a straight shooter and a solid conservative. I think that both Maureen and Michael would be considered the children of divorce in this case and they turned out well.
Patti Reagan and Ron Reagan are the President's children with Nancy. They are not children of divorce, but I think that they are the ones that come to mind when upbringing is cited as not always the reason that kids turn out the way they do.
Sounds like there is more than one demon at work.
Well, the gay "lifestyle" often leads to a horrible sickness and death, not that I advocate what the father did. Driving out demons with a baseball bat, what a loon.
Son is 18 years old.
Father should just ask the young man to move out.
Not beat the young adult with a ball bat.
At 18 the guy is of age and can fend for himself. He’s big enough to make big boy decisions about life, he’s big enough to deal with the consequences.
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