(not for the squeamish)

Ronnie Paris would shake, wet himself and vomit as his father forced him into a box and repeatedly slapped him on the head in an effort to prevent him from being gay, the child's mother, Nysheerah Paris, testified Monday. The boy was 3 years old when he died from swelling on both sides of the brain on January 28.

Others backed up the mother's testimony on the first day of the capital murder trial of Ronnie Paris Jr., 21, of Tampa, Florida. Paris is accused of physically abusing the toddler until the boy slipped into a coma.

"He was trying to teach him how to fight," the boy's aunt, Shanita Powell, told the court. "He was concerned that the child might be gay."
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When I first read about this story, I was overcome by a mixture of rage and sadness that just wouldn't go away. What kind of sick bastard would do this...and then I saw this quote from the update yesterday...

"He didn't want him to be a sissy," Shelton Bostic, the defendant's Bible-study friend, testified.

HIS BIBLE STUDY FRIEND....a man of faith who was sufficiently active to participate in Bible study. How was it Rodgers and Hammerstein put it..."You have to be taught to hate and fear." Three guesses where he learned to fear that his infant child might be gay...

Did I mention this happened in Florida? Perhaps Governor Bush will think twice before he tries to again justify their legal ban on gay adoption by suggesting that children need to be raised in a home with a mother and a father.

May Ronnie's memory protect some other child from abuse...