Yet again Daddy Dobson, Don Wildmon, Tony Perkins and their religious lunatic allies are being proven wrong when they claim that gay adoptive parents are a threat to raising healthy, well adjusted children and maintain that only one man and one woman can properly raise a child. They also claim that gay marriage is a travesty and will deprive children of having fathers. Tell that to the apparent son of Sergio Casian Aguiar. Oh, but you can't: his dad killed him trying to "get the demons" out of the boy. I suspect dad would have killed him likewise if he had been older and gay or interested in a GSA. Once again, I feel more and more with each passing day that religious extremists are a clear and present danger to their children, society as a whole and world peace, be they Muslim or Christian. Here are highlights of this sad story from the San Francisco Chronicle:
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Turlock, Stanislaus County -- A 27-year-old grocery store worker who police say punched and kicked his 2-year-old son to death on a country road calmly told motorists who stopped at the scene that he had to "get the demons" out of the boy, two witnesses said Monday.
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And when a Modesto police officer jumped off a helicopter and ordered Aguiar to stop at gunpoint, he raised his middle finger and continued his attack. Officer Jerry Ramar, standing in a cow pasture behind an electric fence, shot Aguiar once in the forehead, the witnesses and police said. Aguiar died at the scene. "Good shot, thank God," said Deborah McKain, a 51-year-old resident of nearby Crows Landing who pulled up to the beating scene on a cracked two-lane road while on her way home from dinner in Turlock, 10 miles to the northeast. "That guy needed to die."
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The boy was beaten so savagely that DNA tests will be needed to confirm his identity, Singh said. His name has not been released. The crime shocked this agricultural community and stunned those who knew Aguiar and his wife, Frances, who had recently separated from her husband. She was in Southern California when her son was killed.
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McKain, of Crows Landing, said she drove past Sergio Aguiar's pickup Saturday night on West Bradbury Road and, at first, thought he was "kicking garbage or something." But she said her boyfriend, Dan Robinson, told her to back up and put her headlights on Aguiar. "Sure enough, he was kicking a baby around," McKain said. She said the child was unconscious, his clothes falling off, and looked liked a "rag doll." Robinson, a volunteer fire chief in Crows Landing, showed Aguiar his badge and ordered him to stop, but Aguiar calmly said something like, "It's just trash," McKain said.
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I've received a few snide comments on this post (naturally by gutless wonders who only post anonymously - hence why I rejected their comments), so I wanted to clarify my reasoning. First, as a gay parent, I feel that despite many shortcomings, I have been nonetheless a far better parent than many straight parents. Thus, the bile put out by Daddy D and those like him against gay parenting and gay adoption pisses me off big time. Second, as a parent of three wonderful children, the notion that parents should be allowed to do whatever they want with their children is, in my mind, bull shit. These children are living, breathing individuals and they have the right to happiness and a feeling of self-worth which should not be destroyed or damaged by their parents' religious lunacy. Unlike what many Christianist think, they are not chattel belonging to the parents.
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