SANCTIFY MY EYE!

MOBILE COUNTY ALABAMA - JAN 7 2008

2010-01-24T18:56:00.000-08:00

A judge ordered a death sentence for a Vietnamese refugee convicted of murdering four young children by tossing them from an 80-foot-high bridge to "torture" his wife. The judge, Charles Graddick of Mobile County Circuit Court, handed down the death sentence to the man, Lam Luong, and said he would order prison officials to show Mr. Luong, 38, photographs of the four children each day he is on death row. Mr. Luong was convicted of killing the children on January 7, 2008. Prosecutors said he dropped them from the Dauphin Isalnd Bridge after an argument with their mother, Kieu Phan, 23. Mr. Luong came to the United States from Vietnam when he was 13.

Even an idiot must realize that it was the mere threat of legalizing same-sex marriage that caused Mr. Luong to go against the sanctity of his union with Ms. Phan by murdering the couple's children just to piss her off.

LUBBOCK TEXAS - JULY 2007

2010-01-24T18:44:00.000-08:00

The Jury Has Spoken in the case of Gloria Ramirez, who was four months pregnant when she delivered a still-born fetus inside a filthy, rat-infested home and placed it in a baby wipe box in the refrigerator.

Authorities came to the home that same day in July 2007 after she or her husband, Anthony Moya, 42, called a funeral home to ask about a casket.

Seven children lived in the squalid home. Investigators found dirty diapers stacked nearly 4 feet high in closets throughout the house, which was infested with rats,roaches and lice, according to documents.

Please note that there is not one mention of how same-sex marriage led to the total collapse of this family. It would also appear that the couple following the teachings of Catholicism. I wonder if the Diocese of Lubbock (is there such a thing?) ever thought to include this awful situation as a topic for discussion from the pulpit.

GUSTINE CALIFORNIA JULY 4 2006

2010-01-24T18:22:00.000-08:00

I cut out this item from the July 5, 2006 edition of The New York Times. I thought at the time that I should start keeping track of horror stories like this one but, alas, the story stayed tacked to my bulletin board all that time up until now.

GUSTINE, Calif., July 4 (AP) - A man who was seen arguing with his wife early Tuesday killed his four children with a hunting rifle before killing himself, officials said.

All of the children apparently died from gunshots to the head, while their father, Trevor Branscum, 38, died of a self-inflicted wound, said Jim Bonta, the mayor of Gustine. Mayor Bonta said the police told him that Mr. Branscum had to reload the rifle before each shot.

The authorities identified the children as Aubrie, 12; Jacob, 10; and Taylor and Alyssa, 5-year-old twins.

The killings, the first in this Central Valley town in nearly 40 years, came a little more than an hour after the owner of a market called the police about an argument that Mr. Branscum and his wife, Amanda, had in the store just after midnight.

The disturbance started after Amanda Branscum went in to buy a few things and her husband followed her, the police said. The merchant said that as Ms. Branscum drove away in a van, Mr. Branscum dived through its window.

The police said that as officers searched for the van, a call came in at 1:30 a.m. reporting shots at the Branscum home. Officers saw Amanda Branscum lying in the road unhurt; the bodies of Trevor Branscum and the children were inside the house.

It should escape no one that the AP report fails to mention whether or not marriage between people of the same sex is responsible for the breakdown and ultimate tragedy that befell the Branscum family at the hands of Mr. Branscum.

WISCONSIN

2010-01-09T15:00:00.000-08:00

Day one: 2010-01-09

Ran across this story right away, from the FLDREPORTER.COM under the headline:

State Domestic Violence Homicides at 10-year High.

The article doesn't mention wehter or not the sanctity of marriage has been threatened by the continued battering, maiming and murdering of heterosexual significant others at the hands of heterosexual significant others or by extended family members.

The fldreporder.com covers a beat which includes the Wisconsin counties of Dodge and Fon du Lac.