You know sometimes there isn’t enough coffee in the world to have to try and figure out something as twisted as this.
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I’m surprised that they live in Oklahoma (the guy and his husband, not gay people in general).
In OK? So long as they are white I wouldn’t be surprised if they were issued a firearm when picking up their possessions while checking out of lockup.
Everybody Run! The Albino Grinch has a gun!
Don’t feel bad. I was surprised, too…and I’m gay and living in LA, lol. You just don’t see it in print often enough, but that will change…and hopefully under better circumstances.
The police in this case dropped the ball for years and years. The Jabara family did everything legal they could do. They had restraining orders or orders of protection out against this guy. The guy was a felon who is not allowed to possess a gun. If the Muslim family had been making its redneck white neighbors’ life miserable for 8 years the Oklahoma police would have nipped the whole thing at the bud well before a death resulted.
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Having lived in that city, it didn’t surprise me at all. Tulsa had I think the highest per capita number of gay people of any city outside of San Francisco, at least it did back in the 80s. The culture at that time was pretty deep there as far as I could tell, and relatively speaking it is likely still there.
It was explained to me once that the reason is that pretty much every gay person that grew up in small towns in that area moved there, and that because people tended to be religious it was socially much more tolerant than smaller towns where gay people had to deal with gossip and I suppose lack of opportunity to be themselves. No one wants to get beat up. The international oil business made Tulsa a bit more cosmopolitan than it was usually given credit for too. Basically, people who wanted to stay close to family and their culture could live in “the big city” in a way they certainly couldn’t without moving far away from their comfort zone. (Of course, this might be old information and everything has changed in the last couple of decades…)
Now, there might be a story in why this old guy moved to Oklahoma from California. Apparently he thought these Christian Lebanese were Muslim and thought his Venezuelan neighbor was Mexican. He’s obviously a bigot but he didn’t necessarily learn that in Tulsa and he probably was in the wrong neighborhood if he thought that would go over well there.
One last thing: Oklahoma is going to vote Republican always because of oil. It’s hard to explain just how insignificant other issues are there, comparatively speaking.