Written: 10/03/2011
I try not to dwell on the negative too much, but this story made me really sad. I can’t imagine what this would be like:
“I went over to take the keys out of the ignition and all the sudden I hear someone say ‘sick’em,'” said Gibson County resident, Jerry Pittman Jr. Pittman said the attacked was prompted by the pastor of the church, Jerry Pittman, his father. “My uncle and two other deacons came over to the car per my dad’s request. My uncle smash me in the door as the other deacon knocked my boyfriend back so he couldn’t help me, punching him in his face and his chest. The other deacon came and hit me through my car window in my back,” said Pittman. He said bystanders did not offer assistance. He said the deacon yelled derogatory homosexual slurs, even after officers arrived. He said the officers never intervened to stop the deacons from yelling the slurs.
To be attacked by your uncle, at your dad’s orders. How horrible. I certainly don’t have it as bad as others, but it still makes me angry that parents would hate their children so much, and that there is so much hatred in the world to begin with.
All my best,
The King of Spades
