"Just one more question that you will again not answer... If you are a victim then why do you need a lawyer to shield you from answering questions?"
Posted on 07/26/2012 7:56:58 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Hundreds packed a Near South church Wednesday evening to promote loving one another three days after a woman reported three men broke into her house, tied her up and carved anti-gay slurs into her skin.
Less than a block away from Sunday's reported attack, some 300 people jammed into the pews of First-Plymouth Church at 20th and D streets for the vigil. Workers brought out folding chairs to accommodate the overflow.
“We’re here to claim love is stronger than fear, hatred and violence,” the Rev. Nancy Erickson said.
Supporters sang, prayed and cried together. Gay and straight couples held hands. Parents held their children. Friends wrapped their arms around each other and put their heads on each other's shoulders.
Then they poured out of church for a silent prayer walk, their numbers wrapping around 1 1/2 blocks as they passed the house where the attack took place.
“The fact that it happened in the first place made me want to vomit,” said Beth Loofe, a 42-year-old Lincoln woman who works as a chaplain at Inclusive Life Church in Omaha. Loofe said she’s been openly gay since she was 15 and thinks it’s important to support Lincoln’s gay community.
“When you’re a part of a community, you support your family through good times and bad times.”
Before the walk, the Rev. Greg Stewart told the group Sunday’s attack rattled him, that he wakes up at night to make sure his family is safe, that all his windows and doors are locked. But walling yourself in and backing down in the face of hateful violence doesn’t solve the problem. That’s why coming together Wednesday night was key to healing and resolution.
“Nothing good comes from shrinking back and barricading myself when hate lies at my door,” said Stewart, who’s openly gay. “Hate, hate, hate backs down when love stands up.”
The Rev. Jim Keck, senior minister at First-Plymouth, told supporters none of them knew what happened early Sunday morning.
Regardless, prejudice exists in Lincoln, Keck said. Wednesday night was not only about helping people heal after Sunday’s reported attack, but about battling discrimination generally.
Police continued investigating the crime Wednesday, a day after the FBI joined the investigation. Police are looking for three suspects, who they say could be white, but they haven't been able to determine for certain that an attack occurred.
“There’s so many unknown facts,” Keck said. “We don’t know the facts, but we know these facts: People are hurt."
Loofe said she didn't think the woman staged the attack. She doesn’t know the woman well, but she said her friends and neighbors love her.
Loofe urged Lincoln residents to calm down and let the police do their jobs before jumping to conclusions one way or the other.
“I know public opinion is hard to stop,” she said. “I think we should let opinion rest. Opinions are so easily formed, swayed and changed, and they get into the way of facts.
Supporters and well-wishers of the 33-year-old woman have donated money to several groups in the past few days, said Megan Mikolajczyk, a Lincoln attorney representing the victim.
“We will make the account as transparent as possible, and the survivor will have no direct access to the funds,” Mikolajczyk said, until the investigation is complete.
“If and when funds are distributed, it will be to cover the survivor’s expenses directly related to the incident."
The woman would be able to give any leftover money to a nonprofit organization of her choice.
Mikolajczyk said her client was “very appreciative” of the community’s support.
Police are looking for three suspects, who they say could be white, but they haven't been able to determine for certain that an attack occurred.
I guarantee they already know it is an easily provable hoax but are waiting to get the confession from the "victim."
Agreed. It is folly and vanity that they keep holding vigils for this criminal numbskull and half-wit.
What really bothers me though is that now that she has “lawyered up” and shut her mouth ( and why pray would an innocent victim need to do this?) how are law enforcement and FBI going to get her alone? If you see any hope please tell me.
When I first saw this story, I immediately thought it was a hoax.
Remember the lesbian girls who wrote anti-homosexual graffiti on their own garage door, to get sympathy, and allegedly prove how bigoted their community was?
Remember how the media told us that racists were planting nooses to intimidate black people about lynchings? Many of those noose plantings were later found to be hoaxes, perpetrated by the allegedly persecuted minorities.
This story has hoax written all over it.
When I first saw this story, I immediately thought it was a hoax.
Remember the lesbian girls who wrote anti-homosexual graffiti on their own garage door, to get sympathy, and allegedly prove how bigoted their community was?
Remember how the media told us that racists were planting nooses to intimidate black people about lynchings? Many of those noose plantings were later found to be hoaxes, perpetrated by the allegedly persecuted minorities.
This story has hoax written all over it.
"Well, it doesn't matter if it happened or not, but it COULD have happened, because there is so much bigotry agains us poor gays, and THAT is what we are standing up against..."
“We will make the account as transparent as possible, and the survivor will have no direct access to the funds,” Mikolajczyk said, until the investigation is complete.
“If and when funds are distributed, it will be to cover the survivor’s expenses directly related to the incident.”
The woman would be able to give any leftover money to a nonprofit organization of her choice.
Won’t matter to the moonbats. Any deviation from the narrative would shatter their sensitive world view.
Isn’t it possible, just possible, that there is NOT as much anti-homosexual bigotry out there as the liberals and gay activists claim???
So then, they have to go and make up a story about an anti-gay attack such as this one.
Question — with the legalization of homosexual marriage in many places, where have we seen violence or unrest of any kind as that controversial event has happened? Since homosexual marriage is the capstone of the “gay rights” movement, certainly we should have seen many instances of gay victims as they exercise their right to marry. After all, if America is so bigoted, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. then the bigots should have been out in force.
This “victim” should be arrest for criminal stupidity for attempting to perpetrate such an obvious hoax which has been tried and FAILED countless times before. You really have to be terminally STUPID to think you can get away with a “hate crime” hoax that has been discovered every time it is tried. But, trust me, there will be more IDIOTS who will attempt this “hate crime” hoax in the future. I am expecting a plethora of them to conveniently take place in the weeks and days leading into the November election.
What message did the intruders carve on her back ? .... the story doesn’t say.
"Just one more question that you will again not answer... If you are a victim then why do you need a lawyer to shield you from answering questions?"
Its my constitutional right to HATE whomever or whatever I wish too...that is NOT a Crime.
a crime is when I hurt or steal from another...and the govt. has no right to care whether or not I hate those that I would hurt.
The perps were unable to reach her back so "they" carved the message into her arms and stomach.
But when a pro-lifer has his house vandalized with graffiti, it’s legit, right?
“The pro-abortion criminals also spray-painted coat hangers and vulgarity in large letters on the front and sides of their house.” - LifeNews.com
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Ask the long-time, well-known freeper who posted last month that, "the only good queer is a dead queer."
Fake but accurate.
I thought HOAX when I read the original thread, of the victim claiming ‘they’ doused the house with gasoline ... but it only did $200.00 worth of damage.
RED FLAG ALERT!
If someone here actually said that, you should be able to provide a link.
It’s interesting how all the people quoted are openly gay, and 3 of them are “church” leaders.
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