Texas couple to flee after ‘die fags’ message painted on porch

MasterAdrian CC BY-NC-ND 5/10/2012

Texas couple to flee after ‘die fags’ message painted on porch | Gay Star News
►http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/texas-couple-flee-after-%E2%80%98die-fags%E2%80%99-message-painted-porc

Texas couple to flee after ‘die fags’ message painted on porch
Gay couple from Clarendon, Texas, say preachers’ hate advert may have sparked anti-gay vandalism that has left them fearing for their lives
05 October 2012 | By Tris Reid-Smith
Message scrawled outside the home of Clarendon gay couple Joshua Harrison and Jeremy Jeffers reads ’leave or die fags’.
A gay couple from the Texas panhandle are planning to flee their small community after vandals scrawled ‘leave or die fags’ on their front porch.
Joshua Harrison and Jeremy Jeffers woke up on Monday (1 October) to see the abuse spray-painted outside their home in Clarendon – a town of just 2,000 people.
They now fear for their safety and point out that hatred towards them only started after a preacher posted an anti-gay message in a local newspaper.
Harrison states: ‘It was a nice message painted on our front porch right in front of our door,’ and that he and Jeffers reported the incident to police right away.
Donley County Sheriff Charles ‘Butch’ Blackburn said the authorities are currently investigating the vandalism and that he considers it a hate crime.
The couple who have been together for about a year and a half, have said the homophobic message has left them fearing for their lives.
Harrison added: ‘I’m absolutely terrified because if there are people in this town that are willing to go to the lengths to vandalize our house and to scare us, they might be going the lengths to do physical harm on us.’
The couple say they have noticed a change in people’s attitudes towards them after an advert about the ‘homosexual movement’ was published in the local newspaper the Clarendon Enterprise by Pastor Chris Moore of the Clarendon Church of Christ.
In it, Moore warns the town: ‘Folks, don’t be fooled, the “gay” agenda isn’t about “equal” rights for gay couples… Their agenda would force everyone to compromise their values, make our children legal prey for pedophiles.’
Citing that it is due to the advert, Harrison said: ‘It’s funny that two weeks after this article comes out in the newspaper that people in town are starting to be rude to us and then we get out front porch vandalized.’
The pastor defended his advert by saying that it is based on facts but added he does not support the anti-gay attack the couple suffered.
‘What I wrote was facts and if I wrote something that wasn’t factual - I would gladly fix it… I don’t condone that type of behavior. It is un-Christian to vandalize or be violent to anybody,’ he said.
However Pronews 7 who brought the couple’s plight to wider attention suggested Moore’s ‘facts’ may not be exactly that.
In his article he cites a group called The National Coalition of Gay Organizations as having dictated the gay agenda. The only reference which can be found to that is a conference dating back to 1972.
The incident has left the couple so concerned, they are ‘trying to leave,’ Harrison said.
‘It’s sad,’ Jeffers added. ‘For the first time in my life, I have never felt this scared.’
Officials from Equality Texas, the state’s principal LGBT advocacy group, say that the couple should not be afraid to live in Clarendon.
‘Joshua Harrison and Jeremy Jeffers should not have to live in fear in their own home simply because of their sexual orientation,’ interim executive director Chuck Smith said. ‘No Texan should ever have to live in fear of violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identity/ expression.’
Smith also commented on Moore’s ad. Although, he said, the pastor is ‘entitled to his own beliefs,’ he takes issue with him teaching and preaching ‘homophobia and anti-gay rhetoric. It can inflame people to the point of violence.’
GOP Governor Rick Perry signed a bill into law in 2001 that added sexual orientation to the state’s hate crime laws despite Texas being considered a conservative state.
According to the 2007 crime in Texas report sexual orientation accounted for nearly 20 percent of hate crimes in Texas.
Watch the Pronews 7 report on the case here:

MasterAdrian CC BY-NC-ND

MasterAdrian CC BY-NC-ND 5/10/2012

The pastor says that homosexuals make children pray to pedophiles, and claims that that statement is based on facts........ My question is what facts?

The facts of christian fathers abusing their daughters?

The facts of christian mothers using their sons for sexual pleasures?

The facts of christian fathers making their daughters pregnant?

The facts of roman catholic priests and nuns abusing boys and girls in orphanages?

The facts of protestant parents who force their children to marry within the religious community?

Or perhaps the facts of hundreds of thousands of heterosexuals who sexually and mentally abuse children?

If this pastor is referring to those facts he should be ashamed of himself, as he points at homosexual people, not towards his own people!

Besides, this pastor, and no doubt millions of others, should be getting their information on and about pedo-philes and pedo-sexuals right.......

A pedo-phile never ever would harm a child, it is a known fact that pedo-philes 99% of the cases will never get involved with a child sexually or physically!

A pedo-sexual wil try to involve a child in a physical relation, yes indeed.
But... and that is shown in various reports and studies also, a pedo-sexual is in 90 percent of the known cases not using force... were the facts as described above have shown that all the children abused by roman catholic priests and nuns were forced by these animals, that were christian fathers were involved in breeding with their daughters these were forced to accept the deed by the their fathers, that christian mothers forced their sons to take part in sexual games with them.......

I am not defending any relation with minors, mentally nor sexually, and neither am I defending, or promoting, or accepting any activity that involves a minor in any relation or activity that is harmful to the minor, what I do defend is correctness of facts and an end to the hypocrisy by religious zealots and bigots!

MasterAdrian CC BY-NC-ND