Investigator says gay man in Puerto Rico deserved to die, gay rights groups ask FBI to step in
People across the globe are reacting to what seems to be a hate crime that took place in Puerto Rico causing one teenager to lose his life.
The body of 19-year-old George Lopez Mercado was found by the side of the road in Cayey, a city near his hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico. Cops have arrested Juan Antonio Martínez Matos for the murder. Matos evidently told cops that he killed Mercado out of fear and panic when he found out he was having sex with another man. The murderer evidently thought his victim was a female prostitute, not a gay man.
Mercado was practically mutulated. Matos not only burned him, but he also appears to have been decapitated with his limbs removed from his torso.
The case is evidently being treated as a hate crime, but it might be hard when even homophobic cops are justifying the killer's action.n The police office investigating the case insinuated that the young man deserved to die because of the “type of lifestyle” he was leading.
Gay rights groups are calling for the FBI to get involved. New Yorkers are planning a rally and candle light vigil on Sunday in Lower Manhattan at 7pm.
LGBT activists say Puerto Rico has never classified the murder of a gay man as a hate crime.

Comments
This is why I carry a stun gun.You put your bigoted homophobic hands on me and I will shock dat ass to the ground.If I got a clear shot Ill dat ass in the dick so you'd become sterile and cant reproduce,Id be doing the world a favor,that means you cant create the shitty scum that you are
Posted by: Quinton | November 18, 2009 01:53 AM
There is something seriously wrong in all the Caribbean islands when it comes to homophobic bigotry. Such ignorance is sickeningly rampant there. I hope attorney general Holder is paying close attention to this and will send investigators in if the locals aren't professional or competent enough to understand the concept of equal protection.
Posted by: Miranda | November 18, 2009 06:33 AM
Its damn sad when anyone makes light of a hideous crime such as the one spoke of above.
And its made worse when an ignorant cop who's probably a bible thumper chooses to believe the lies of homhating preachers rather than just use logic and common sense to figure out that sexual orientation is a state of being...Not a lifestyle.
Posted by: Reverend_Boony | November 18, 2009 08:03 AM
Gay people need to arm themselves with guns, knives, or ANYTHING that will allow them to protect themselves from the vulgar animals known as heterosexual men.
Posted by: Jill | November 18, 2009 10:49 AM
This makes me sick..... When will there ever be peace and love on this earth! So sad sad sad. I hope they fry that f*cker, he needs to feel pain, and so do all the homophobic cops if they help him get away with this!
Posted by: Joanne | November 18, 2009 12:03 PM
I've cancelled any vacations to homophobic Caribbean Islands...and recommended it also to all my friends! Hawaii also has it's group of "ignorant - I am better than you because I go to church" people, who would condemn their own Gay children to unhappiness and hatred. Fortunately, this is not the whole island nation, and the "Hawaiian spirit of Aloha" prevails over this discrimination! Bottom line to those who condemn, judge, and crucify Gays, Lesbians, and Transgendered ...WHAT ONE SOWS, SO SHALL THEY REAP!
Steve Leong - Hawaii
Posted by: Steve Leong | November 18, 2009 01:09 PM
Some of the most hateful people are religious fanatics.We all die. We have every right to live our lives as we are. The only reward we oet for living is happiness
Posted by: Rev. Vincent Balbas | November 18, 2009 07:45 PM
My brother passed away last year, after living his life as an openly homosexual man in a heterosexual world. He was an artist, so his universe was a lot more forgiving of his lifestyle than most gay men's. Still, he suffered his share of stupidity from "well-intended assholes" and "Bible thumpers" who had no idea that when Jesus said that there were but two commandments (Love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength, and the second, much like the first, love your neighbor as you love yourself) He made no differences between straight, gay, lesbian, or transgendered.
I believe that anyone may chose who to bed, who to make love to, and even, who to hate, no matter how wrong hate is. There is no way what they did to this young man (I say they, because I do believe there must have been more than one involved) can be understood, but the comments I have read in this post are so scary as if those who made them lived in the same universe as the one inhabited by the murderer or murderers.
I am a Christian and suffer with what I read about what happened to this boy, George. I also suffer with what I read about that woman who prostituted her 5 year-old daughter who just appeared dead. But my brother's life taught me that those things will happen, no matter what. He made the world a better place by never hating; those of you who have written in this post to say you need weapons, who have called me an animal just because I am straight, are as much haters as those who did this to George.
Shame on you.
Posted by: Helion | November 18, 2009 11:06 PM
@ Helion
If you dont want heterosexuals to be called animals,talk to your heterosexual neighbors and christian fascists to stop hating gay people and treating us like second and third class citizens.You and every other heterosexual have absolutely no place in this world to feel like a fucking victim.You said you are a "christian" well its so like you christian-fascists to try and twist things and make it seem like you are the victims from the "big bad faggots".We have every right to be angry and we have every right to protect ourselves,our friends,and our lovers.I will not allow any "christian" to make me out to be "the bad guy" Christianity did that to itself already.So if some homophobic bigot comes anywhere near me with his hate,you better believe his sorry ass is getting dropped to the fucking ground.
By the way homosexuality is NOT a "Lifestyle" its another form of being and it is NOT a choice.Homosexuality is a natural part of who we are and its only a small fragment of who we are,we have dreams and aspirations just like any of you heteros.So if you dont want gay people to be angry tell your church to stop promoting hate and intolerance toward gay people.Otherwise stand aside and let the gays handle our business.
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