(October 16, 2015 at 1:53 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: It's possible that the boys were gay. The older of the two was beaten to death by his own parents. Christopher, the younger, supposedly still survives? Perhaps he will wake up and give us the details.
It's not unlikely that people of this ilk would kill a gay son. But they could have also caught him masturbating. He could have talked back to them. He could have expressed doubt in some of their "christian" teaching. What I'm reading in the news reports isn't offering enough information yet to know what the brothers "crime" was.
GOT IT!
I had to dig around because it appears the mainstream press has dropped this story like a hot lava rock because the Christian coalition is as eager to make this go away as they are to have Hollywood make a dozen sequels to kiss of the spider woman, but it turns out the rumor that it was a gay conversion gone wrong is the story THEY WOULD ACTUALLY PREFER!
It was just as I feared, they did just try to leave the church, I knew it because I've seen little churches just like that one when I was a kid in the southland, I just know how they are. check it out, I had to dig this out of the internet because as I said, the mainstream press has dropped it fast.
http://www.wcax.com/story/30278156/the-l...ave-church
The Latest: Hearing postponed for 2 in church beating case
Posted: Oct 16, 2015 8:59 AM MST Updated: Oct 16, 2015 10:55 AM MST
Significant quotes:
Nineteen-year-old Lucas Leonard died and his 17-year-old brother, Christopher, was seriously injured after both were beaten for hours at the Word of Life Christian Church.
Parents Bruce and Deborah Leonard have been charged with manslaughter. The Moreys, the teens' sister, Sarah Ferguson, and Joseph Irwin have been charged with assault.
Church members have told police that a counseling session that escalated into a fatal beating of a teenager began as a discussion of his desire to leave the upstate New York congregation.