South Dakota Man Allegedly Punched After Speaking Out Against Anti-Gay Language

[joeybee12]

A South Dakota man was left with a black eye after allegedly being assaulted when he spoke out against a woman who was using anti-gay epithets on the street.

As Keloland reported, Drew Bartscher was outside of a popular bar in Sioux Falls when he overheard a woman use an anti-gay term while having a conversation with her boyfriend.

"She said these 'f**ing f-words,' referring to homosexuals," Bartscher, who is straight, told local ABC affiliate KSFY. "I stopped and I just commented to her, 'You really shouldn't call anybody the f-word, that's rude.' Then I continued to walk in the direction towards our car."

He continued, "Then I hear this guy yell at me, 'What the F did you say to my girlfriend?!?!' I turned just a little bit and then the next thing I know, my friends are picking me up off the sidewalk [because] I had gotten punched pretty good."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/south-dakota-anti-gay-attack-_n_5849944.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

A lot of the comments are pretty appalling.

[closeupready]

1. What was her boyfriend's religion, I wonder?

Things that make you go hmmm... K&R

[theHandpuppet]

2. The comments are more than appalling

They're frightening! Where does all that rage come from?

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Kinda irontic

Keloland Communications is the largest Radio TV complex in SW Minnesota and most of South Dakota. You wonder were all this hate comes from. Same source as this story. Ownership of this smelly turd is one of the big money bags for the Rethugs in SoDak. And you wonder why the Ignorance and Hate Level is so damn elevated in that region.

[rurallib]

4. can he prefer charges against the boyfriend?

I sure would.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. South Dakota is a very homophobic place. Change comes ever so slowly.