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Originally Posted by GoldHeart
But he won't be the only gay man convicted in South Dakota surely?. But for some reason this particular story is making headlines and it's being spun into a predjudice argument.
How do you know it's not just another BS story??!! .
And the prison comment about men being together is pretty disgusting ,I can't imagine anyone with a brain saying something so ignorant about a guy "enjoying it "  , if that's the case then why don't they care about every straight man that gets sentenced in prison in risk of getting abused there ?.
We all know in both male & female prison violence & abuse happens .
But anyway I'm going off topic , I'm not missing the point either as the man is still a murderer . Now if he'd been WRONGLY arrested & accused then that's a different story  .
I've already said America is frustrating with their different laws and punishment's on every state , I've watched crime programs which makes us scratch our heads at the different sentences and punishment's   . |
This is giving me a headache. Right, last time I explain it.
The story suggests there is court records of discrimination within the sentencing, that this gay man is being given a harsher sentence, not because of his crime, but because of his sexuality. Do you understand the issue with that? Are you following me thus far?
This story isn't about overturning a conviction or even other court cases involving gay people (unless it's revealed that there's more cases like this in which gay people were handed harsher punishments on the grounds of their sexuality) so I'm quite bewildered by your opening sentence tbh. It doesn't have any relevance to the topic at hand. This story is making headlines because a gay man is being killed when he would have likely been given a life sentence if he was straight? Do you understand the problem with that?
As for the BS line, there's one thing I'm growing increasingly tired of in today's world and that is people declaring anything they dislike as fake news so they don't have to pay attention to it or deal with it. Delusion is not an answer. If there is grounds to believe this sentence was handed down because of homophobia rather than because the crime demanded it then it's the morally correct decision to raise awareness of the story and hope there's an investigation into the sentencing, if it turns out to be true as the articles suggest then the courts will likely hand out a more ethical sentence and he would likely be spending the rest of his life in prison.
Again, you've shown in your paragraph (the one that starts off with the weird prison violence line, that you simply aren't getting it. This isn't about him being innocent or overturning the verdict. This is about making sure that he is not being sentenced to die, not because the crime demands it, but because he is gay.
I honestly don't know how else to say it to help you understand what this story is about.