Posted on 11/21/2002 4:58:51 PM PST by Polycarp
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/nov/02112108.html
HOMOSEXUAL TEEN STABS DEVOUT CATHOLIC TO DEATH
Violent reaction to suggestion that teen try to change sexual orientation
CHICAGO, November 21, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A homosexual teen stabbed a middle-aged devout Catholic woman to death, apparently after she suggested that he try to change his sexual orientation.
Police arrested Nicholas Gutierrez, 19, after he confessed on video and the body of fellow Sikorski Funeral Home employee, Mary Stachowicz, a 51-year-old Polish translator, was found in a crawl space beneath his apartment. He has been charged with first-degree murder, attempting to conceal a homicide and burglary.
"She was a very intense person concerned about the good of the parish always seeking things for the poor as well as the spiritual welfare of people," said Rev. Francis Rog of St. Hyacinth Church.
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November 21, 2002
Woman Murdered After Reportedly Witnessing to Homosexual
By Bob Kellogg, correspondent
A killing in Chicago last week could turn "hate crimes" laws on their head.
A brutal murder in Chicago last week highlights the double standard surrounding hate crimes. A homosexual killed a woman that was trying to witness to him. Will authorities call the killing a hate crime and will the media report it in the same way they did the Matthew Shepard murder?
Nineteen-year-old Nicholas Gutierrez is charged with first degree murder in the slaying of 51-year-old Mary Stachowicz. He allegedly beat, stabbed and hid her body in his apartment after she told him God would not approve of his lifestyle. The two were co-workers. Gutierrez allegedly has said he was enraged because it reminded him of heated debates with his mother. Relatives say Stachowicz was probably trying to help.
Peter LaBarbera, of Concerned Women for America, was pointed in his response to this crime.
"This woman, Mary Stachowicz, was killed evidently because she was sharing the truth about homosexuality to a gay activist," LaBarbera said. "We will be waiting to see, now, if the media treats this case like it treated the Matthew Shepard case."
So far it has not. Laura Montgomery, of Soulforce — a gay-activist organization — seemed to avoid the hate crime aspect of the incident.
"Our understanding of the Bible in no way condemns sexual orientation or the love that two people of the same sex feel towards one another," Montgomery said.
But, when pressed, Montgomery grudgingly said she might consider this murder a hate crime.
"If it was directed at this person and intended to intimidate Christians, that would be a hate crime in my mind," Montgomery said.
For LaBarbera, this murder was blatantly a hate crime.
"It's going to be hard for people to say this is not an anti-Christian hate crime committed by a homosexual activist. But I fully expect the media to not pay a lot of attention to this case."
Prosecutors say they are considering the death penalty for Gutierrez.
The Cook County State's Attorney's office says since Gutierrez is being charged with murder, a hate crime charge would be irrelevant.
There is crime and that is all. There are serious crimes, property crimes, capitol crimes, willful crimes, malicious crimes and intentional crimes. There are millions of laws in thousands of jurisdictions that define various crimes and suggest appropriate punishments. There are no such things as hate crimes. That is liberal diversity doublespeak. Don't play their game.
We don't want to play their game. We want to make them realize that they could LOSE this game so maybe they'd better not play it anymore either.
No, but the two crimes are very similar. Both were precipitated by remarks offensive to the murderer. The only difference is that the motivation of the woman was to save a young man's immortal soul, while the motive of Mathew Shepard was to commit a perverted sexual act.
I'm sure we all agree with the mainstream media that it is better to b*f* a young man than appeal to his higher nature.
Not nearly as many as the number of innocent teenage boys these predators molest every year, and the numbers who commit suicide due to molestation and/or the psychosis that accompanies homosexuality itself.
And if you don't, and you butt into the life of some mentally-ill 19 year old, don't complain if he hacks you up and stuffs you in the crawl space.
It doesn't matter what anyone says to a homo. No one needs to live their lives in fear of being killed simply for witnessing to the Gospel Truth. And I am not a pacifist. If I witness to some homo and they take offense and pull a knife, they will regret bringing a knife to a gun party.
Live and let live.
Sounds like you got a bigger problem with practicing Christians than homos.
Interesting.
Presumably keeping your opinion to yourself would, by necessity, include homosexual advances on heterosexual young men teeming with testosterone. But in your world nobody could complain when they hack up or otherwise hurt the fellow doing the advancing.
I think you should give this some more thought, eh?
In neither case do you get to kill the person annoying you.
Matthew Shepard was a homosexual in a bar trying to pick up two non-homosexual men. He was engaged in objectively disordered, self destructive and objectively sinful behavior.
As a result of this self-destructive lifestyle, unfortunately, Shepard paid the ultimate price
On the other hand, this woman, out of genuine concern for his physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, was simply trying give advice to a young man engaged in objectively disordered, self destructive and objectively sinful behavior.
As a result of her selfless, Christian, charitable behavior, this woman tragically has been killed.
And you are so debased as to compare the two deaths.
You are a sick individual.
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