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Fearless

(18,421 posts)
Fri May 4, 2012, 04:09 PM May 2012

Boy, 4, Shot To Death For Being Gay Because He Slapped A Boy’s Behind

A four-year old boy was shot to death by his common-law father, a religious leader who thought the boy was gay, because he had slapped another boy’s behind. As The New Civil Rights Movement reported earlier this month, four-year old Jadon Higganbothan was murdered by Peter Lucas Moses, 27, who also shot to death a 28-​year old woman, Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy, police and prosecutors say.

Now that prosecutors have revealed Moses’s motivation for thinking four-year old Jardon was gay, we also learned on Friday they asked for the death penalty in this tragic North Carolina case. Moses now faces two counts of first-degree murder.

Moses, whom police had stopped short of calling a cult leader, is believed to have belonged to a religious group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/boy-4-shot-to-death-for-being-gay-because-he-slapped-a-boys-behind/news/2011/07/31/24662

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Boy, 4, Shot To Death For Being Gay Because He Slapped A Boy’s Behind (Original Post) Fearless May 2012 OP
the craziest mfer d_r May 2012 #1
This horror beggers belief. "The defendant asked the boy’s mother to get rid of him. snagglepuss May 2012 #2
I have never even heard of the "Black Hebrew Israelites". Behind the Aegis May 2012 #3
I saw them on Jerry Springer. SolutionisSolidarity May 2012 #10
Ah, religion. xfundy May 2012 #4
Words fail. Scuba May 2012 #5
Maybe it's always been more or less like this, but I, for one, have just run out of patrice May 2012 #6
Oh my god, KatyaR May 2012 #7
You Got THAT Right! RetiredTrotskyite May 2012 #12
Grotesque. Nt xchrom May 2012 #8
WTF is wrong with fundamentalists? Initech May 2012 #9
A four year old? Jamastiene May 2012 #11

snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
2. This horror beggers belief. "The defendant asked the boy’s mother to get rid of him.
Fri May 4, 2012, 04:18 PM
May 2012

“Moses then ordered two of the other women to set up computers and speakers in the garage, prosecutors contend, then the defendant took the boy into the garage, where music and the Lord’s Prayer in Hebrew blared, and a gunshot sounded. One of the women told investigators the boy was shot in the head.

“Some of the women cleaned up his bloodied body, prosecutors said, then put it in a suitcase in the master bedroom until Moses complained about the smell.”"


Words fail.

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
3. I have never even heard of the "Black Hebrew Israelites".
Fri May 4, 2012, 04:21 PM
May 2012
Allegations of black supremacy and racism

In late 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described as black supremacist what it called "the extremist fringe of the Hebrew Israelite movement". It wrote that the members of such groups "believe that Jews are devilish impostors and ... openly condemn whites as evil personified, deserving only death or slavery". The SPLC also said that "most Hebrew Israelites are neither explicitly racist nor anti-Semitic and do not advocate violence".[54]

The Black Hebrew groups characterized as black supremacist by the SPLC include the Nation of Yahweh[55] and the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ.[54] Also, the Anti-Defamation League has written that the "12 Tribes of Israel" website, maintained by a Black Hebrew group, promotes black supremacy.[56]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites


This is just fucked up!
10. I saw them on Jerry Springer.
Fri May 4, 2012, 10:24 PM
May 2012

He had these guys and the Klan on the same stage. It was not humanity's finest hour.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
6. Maybe it's always been more or less like this, but I, for one, have just run out of
Fri May 4, 2012, 04:40 PM
May 2012

knowing how to respond to the horrors anymore.

RetiredTrotskyite

(1,507 posts)
12. You Got THAT Right!
Sun May 6, 2012, 03:18 AM
May 2012

Sometimes it seems as if this country is descending into madness every time one turns around. And the damn Stand Your Ground laws don't help at all. My husband is pretty peaceful and he is considering seeing if there is a nearby Pink Pistols group. It is getting so bad that we are planning to move to the UK just to get away from all this insanity.

This Moses creep deserves the death penalty. I mean, come on, shooting a little kid in the head because he slapped another boy's rear end?!

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
11. A four year old?
Sat May 5, 2012, 09:50 AM
May 2012

Have they no sense of decency, compassion, or even so much as a heart at all?

This is why words matter. If so many religious leaders in this country (and the world) did not preach outright hatred against gay people so much, these people would not feel so emboldened as to do such things. The hatred for gay people is drilled into people's heads from the time they are born until the day they die. If it takes, they carry it on and spread it to the next generation. If it does not, they grow up and then have to put up with nasty family members and locals in their neighborhood who constantly blame everything on gay people.

If people need to know why words matter, this is one reason why. This indoctrination and adherence to the strict, fundamentalist, hate filled versions of religions causes these kind of horrors to happen.

A four year old? I still cannot fathom what would possess someone to shoot a four year old.

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