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Tuesday November 26, 2002
HOMOSEXUAL MURDERER SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH 'HATE CRIME', GROUP SAYS
'There seems to be a politically correct hierarchy of victims...'
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CHICAGO, November 26, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Observers say the killing of Mary Stachowicz, 51, a Catholic who had talked to 19-year-old co-worker Nicholas Gutierrez about his sexual orientation prior to her first-degree murder, should be treated as a "hate crime." Gutierrez has been charged with the murder.
"We condemn this murder, like we do all murders," said Laura Montgomery Rutt of Soulforce, a homosexual activist group. "A hate crime needs to have an intent to intimidate a whole class of people. If in this case, it was directed at this person and intended to intimidate Christians, that would be a hate crime in my mind."
Media have not covered Mrs. Stachowicz's murder to nearly the extent that they did the 1998 beating death of homosexual student Matthew Shepard -- prompting Peter LaBarbera of the Culture and Family Institute to say there is a "politically correct hierarchy of victims, and at the top of the list are gay victims."
Catholic League president William Donohue says Stachowicz's fate "demonstrate[s] the utter futility of hate crime legislation," which he called useless" and "politically corrupt." According to Donohue, "Mary asked, 'Why do you [have sex with] boys instead of girls?' This was enough to provoke Gutierrez to mutilate her with a knife, place a plastic garbage bag over her head, strangle her and then jam her body in a crawl space... The fact is she was murdered for having a Catholic-informed conscience."
To read Washington Times coverage see:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021126-72638468.htm
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