Oh geez, here it comes. A Junior High school student in Oxnard, Calif named Lawrence King who was fifteen years old was shot last Feb by a fellow classmate. Most people I know are startled and shocked to hear that, but there is another factor to this case. Namely young King was openly gay.

Despite the stunned response of myself and others I can already hear activists making their signs and writing their speeches. I can already foresee the red, angry faces of the Homosexual Rights spokespeople pointing their fingers in the camera on evening talk shows and blaming people like myself for “Homophobia” as if I endorse the killing of innocent people not like me.

Frankly I’ve had it with this charge, the media slant and all the other usual garbage that swirls around a case like this one.

A quick Google search brings up about three or four stories about Lawrence King. As with all of these PC cases, each of the stories has different (sometimes contradictory) details about what happened. Not that I’m accusing the media of bias or anything, but it is interesting to note that all the stories give the perp’s full name – something most media outlets usually hesitate to do based on the perp’s young age.

But that aside, it is interesting to note that all the stories say that King was shot, but none of the stories go into detail over why the alleged perp did what he did. The best answer I could find was King asked this boy to be his Valentine. But if that said Valentine was as over the top as the rest of King’s actions, I could see how someone could feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately instead of giving further details, all of the stories go on to talk about the struggle of gays for “equality” in our society, how there is still rampant “homophobia” at every level and so on.

I think that’s very offensive. Most normal people don’t walk around hunting for people who look and talk different to shoot and kill. So if the perp is otherwise normal, there has to be more to the case. Too bad our media doesn’t think we should be privy to the details.

What we can gleam from the case is that King was very flamboyant – apparently he often dressed as a woman, would talk in a high pitched voice, would openly ogle his male classmates and even chase them around. I guess when his classmates asked him to stop, King would follow them in to the locker room where he would stare and make comments like “You’re hot.”

At this point I have several questions that no one will answer due to the PC demographic young King fit in to. Firstly don’t his actions constitute sexual harassment? If he was chasing around his female classmates in such a fashion wouldn’t he be disciplined? We’ve all heard the story of the first grader getting sued for kissing his female classmate and whereas that is a gross over reaction, it sounds like King was definitely pushing the envelope on this one.

The second question is about the school dress code. I’m guessing that even in a state as left wing as California there is a limit as to what you can wear to school. In fact, in one of the stories I read a cursory interview with the teachers revealed that several of them thought King was stretching the dress code. Thus I’m guessing no one said anything because of his protected status as a member of a “minority” group.

It is quite the irony to think that Gay Activists campaigning for “equal rights” would raise a stink when asked to follow the same reasonable rules about how to dress and not harassing the people around them. It could be concluded that they don’t really want to be “equal” at all, since they want to ignore restrictions they don’t like without consequence.

But that’s not even the most offensive part of this story to me. The thing that really grinds about this is the reaction of the principal who blamed guns and the lack of social programs for kids. I’m sorry but when I was in school part of the principal’s job was enforcing the rules and maintaining discipline in the hallways and classrooms. I’m willing to bet that with a little digging I’d discover that there were a lot of problems festering in this situation that were ignored. So basically we’re supposed to set up another bunch of government workers who won’t do their jobs either.

No one is happy about this. A young person was shot. There were weapons in the classroom. There might be a couple of people out there relishing the end of another homosexual but most people (yes, even amongst conservatives) are horrified by this. King’s actions no matter how over the top some might think they are, are not justification for his murder.

And kids can be extremely mean. I’m sure everyone has some stories of being ostracized as a teen for whatever reason: wrong skin color, wrong gender, wrong religion, wrong social clique. The idea that such problems only happen to one group of people is outrageous and offensive. But not nearly as offensive as the assertion that most Americans favor a slaughter of homosexuals – that is “heterophobia”.