Fischer: ‘Flamboyant homosexual’ Lawrence King’s murderer is the real victim

[Shana A]

Fischer: 'Flamboyant homosexual' Lawrence King's murderer is the real victim
By Kyle Mantyla

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/11/fischer-flamboyant-homosexual-lawrence-kings-murderer-is-the-real-victim/

We can now add Bryan Fischer to the list of anti-gay activists who have blamed 15-year-old openly gay eighth grader Lawrence King for his own murder, this time on the grounds that his killer was a victim of King's relentless sexual harassment:

    The backstory, which out-of-the-mainstream outlets have been reluctant to tell, is that King was a flamboyant homosexual, who not only flaunted his homosexuality but mercilessly harassed McInerney.

[Jamie D]

While I have no respect for this knucklehead, Bryan Fischer, there is a reason the trial of King's killer ended in a hung jury after eight weeks and about 100 witnesses.  And it has nothing to do with sympathy for the killer or anti-gay bias.  All of the jurors concluded that one sort of crime or another had been committed, but could not agree on the severity of the crime.

There is no doubt Larry King was the victim of a crime.  None.  Nor is there any doubt that both King and his killer, Brandon McInerney, came from pretty messed up backgrounds.  And the evidence presented in court pretty clearly indicates that King was a sexual harasser.

I do not see harassment as "justification" for the crime, but rather, as a mitigating circumstance.  This crime happened in my community.  I apparently lived within a half mile of the perp at one time.  The whole thing has given this community a black eye.