When Love Is Deadly…

Most couples think nothing of holding hands in public, but for a few of us, that can be deadly. When you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, just that simple act can be deadly. That was the case for two teenage girls in Portland Texas.

Mollie Judith Olgin And Mary Christine Chapa, Teen Lesbian Couple, Shot At Texas Park
Huffington Post
By Wayne Besen
Posted: 06/26/2012

Details remain vague in a violent double shooting at a Texas park that left one lesbian teen dead and another hospitalized in serious condition.

As The Corpus Christi Caller originally reported, Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Christine Chapa, 18, were found in knee-deep grass in Violet Andrews Park in Portland, Texas on Saturday.
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Wright could not confirm the nature of the girls' relationship, but friends say they had been a couple for about five months. When MSNBC asked if authorities believed the girls' sexuality had provided any motive for the shootings, Wright noted: "That’s always something that we’re looking for, but as of this point, we have not been able to establish that that had anything to do with the attack."

It is so sad when anyone is killed and it is especially sad when it is teenagers in the start of their lives. We do not know if this was a hate crime where they were shot because of who they were, but all the ear marks are there.

I can never understand hate, why do people hate other people because they are different. It seems like such a waste of time and energy to hate a stranger when they never did anything to you. As Martin Luther King Jr. said,

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Let’s all work to stop the hate.