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I have received a couple of e-mails regarding my coverage of the heinous crime committed against the innocents in the Norwegian capital and on Utoya island yesterday from persons who view this forum.
I need to point out that I am most certainly NOT posting with any thought towards a sense of sensationalism in regards to these unspeakable acts of violence. Rather I am providing information that I have received as I have been covering the unfolding events requisite in my discharging the duties of my profession.
Of paramount concern to me is that this was an act of religious based bigotry and terrorism committed by an unstable individual with obvious mental health issues. He most likely was influenced by the hateful rhetoric spewed by so-called christian values groups who take an inappropriate and wrongful interpretation of that faith. Instead, it becomes a twisted form of propaganda that quite frankly, in my opinion, leads to these sort of scenarios.
As this is a LGBTQ forum, need I point out that those same influences deem those of us who are queer as an evil abomination that needs to be eradicated. As a journalist and as a gay man I have a responsibility to the greater community of humanity both queer and heteronormal to raise an alarm.
This horrid crime illustrates sadly and graphically that words do indeed kill and that we must take those persons or organisations whose sole purpose is to demonise others and in our particular case as a queer community, and force accountability upon them and force them to realise that this is not an abstract argument. Words do kill.
I feel no need to issue a Mea Culpa based on the rubbish e-mails of a few malcontents who apparently cannot see the forest through the trees.
For Tor, indeed all of his countrymen, I am truly sorry for your loss.
Brody Levesque
Washington D. C.
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On a personal note re: Norway Tragedy 
