Darkside Rainbow

You know, when you spend so much time covering news of discrimination and violence against gays and the absolutely horrid things that people do to try to prevent us from having equal rights, it’s easy to gain the strange impression of gays as martyrs and saints, utterly blameless, guilty of nothing save for a desire to be treated like human beings and perhaps a few diva-style temper tantrums now and then. It’s not hard to create the illusion that we’re somehow above the rest of humanity, more highly evolved, flawless.

Let me be the first to tell you that we sure as hell ain’t, sugar.

We can be cruel, vindictive, petty, bigoted, hateful, prejudiced, and downright hypocritical. We’re just as flawed as the rest of humanity, and like the rest of humanity we’ve got our share of cold-hearted, violent, scheming crazies, too. Want proof? Take a gander at this:

Gay Man Accused Of Plotting To Kill Wife - 365gay.com

(Reno, Nevada) Police have charged a Reno, Nevada man with trying to hire a hit-man to kill his wife so he could avoid a messy divorce and be able to live with his same-sex partner.

Reno Police say that James Gau, 50, sought to have his estranged wife murdered so that his gay relationship would not become public and possibly lead to his being denied custody of the couple’s six children.

Police Sgt. Dave Evans tells the Reno Gazette-Journal that Gau had spent weeks trying to convince a man to commit the murder, even providing him with a picture of Sheryl Gau and their children.

Sounds like something out of your average soap opera, doesn’t it? If you want your proof that gays can be just as sleazy as any other average Joe on the street, you’ve got it right there.

That’s some pretty twisted logic, anyway, and takes one warped mind to think that actually makes sense. I think a murder rap would have a hell of a lot more impact on the judge’s custody decision than a gay lover, honey. How do you think Junior and the others would feel if they found out that you had Mommy offed by a hitman, hm?

I’m just having serious problems wrapping my mind around this. “I’m going to kill my wife so I get to stay in the closet and keep my kids.” I’ve heard of being devoted to your rugrats, but that’s taking it a bit far - to the point where it’s breaking my brain trying to comprehend it.

Oh, sure, I could go out on a limb and say “If the U.S. judicial system didn’t discriminate so much against gays, he wouldn’t have been driven to such extremes” but that’s the kind of blame-shifting that makes people think child molesters and rapists aren’t responsible for their own actions just because Mummy didn’t hug them enough. Nuh-uh. I don’t cotton towards that BS. That right there is one cold-hearted crock of crap that just eats away a little more at the dying fragments of my faith in humanity.

I feel quite sorry for that woman, knowing that her husband would do that to her for such shallow and self-serving reasons. It’s got to have quite an impact on her…and it’s going to be difficult, explaining to six children why their father is now serving hard time.

I wish her all the strength in the world…and wish her husband a little karmic justice at the hands of the U.S. penal system. I imagine he’s not going to be particularly pleased with his lot once he trades in one ball and chain for the other.

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