Federal Trial Of Neo-Nazi Who Terrorised Gay Attorney, Former Skinhead Explains Why Gays Are The Target Of White Supremacist Violence, Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall Proffers Bizarre Rationale Why He Wants Homosexuals Barred From Serving In State National Guard, Focus On the Family Fears That Gays Are Co-Opting CPAC And May Boycott Event,

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on the trial of neo-Nazi William White, of Roanoke, Virginia , accused in a federal court of urging violence against 46 year old Mark Hoffman, an openly gay former Northwestern University administrator who served on a jury that convicted Matt Hale, another white supremacist in a murder plot in 2004. According to testimony, on September 11th, 2008, four years to the day after he help convict Hale, Hoffman began to receive violently anti-gay phone and text messages, personal information about Hoffman posted on a Web site – overthrow.com – operated by White; postings that called Hoffman, “gay, Jewish anti-racist,” and that he was responsible for falsely convicting Hale. It also published Hoffman’s home address, phone number, as well as a photo and information that he was in a relationship with a long-term partner who is African-American. Federal prosecutors contend that the information was meant to promote violence against Hoffman and presumably his partner. Hoffman, who is now an attorney, and who happens not to be Jewish, said that while no explicit physical threat was ever made, the messages – which including one voice mail saying “Fucking Jew bastard, are you too busy fucking your nigger buddy? Pick up the phone” – terrorised him. White’s site was removed by federal authorities in 2008, shortly after he posted a picture of the then Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, under a headline that read “Kill This Nigger?” The trial continues.

The Wisconsin Gazette on former skinhead Amo Michaels, the 40 year old now leading The Life After Hate organisation, which he founded in 2009, that promotes anti-violence programs and is currently developing an anti-bullying curriculum. Asked what the status of gays were in the hierarchy of hate, Michaels answered “Homosexuality was seen as a sick perversion of the natural order, an unnatural and unhealthy lifestyle choice, a symptom of the sick society that Jews were scheming to bring about. White men and women who were recruited into homosexuality wouldn’t produce more white offspring, further reducing the already sputtering white birth rate. Like everything else we didn’t like, homosexuality was seen as part of the Jewish plot to take out the white race. Along with a desire to clean up society, seeking out gay people to attack had something to do with making a statement about our own masculinity. Gay people were generally easy targets. Anytime we encountered them we would hurt them if we thought we could get away with it, sometimes even in broad daylight in crowded areas. I believe the first time I was arrested as a skinhead was for attempted gay-bashing. A friend and I were caught in the alley behind a gay bar, armed with axe handles. In one incident, I broke a gay guy’s eye socket with my elbow when he tried to respond to the taunts of my buddies. I will be haunted by that man’s broken face till the day I die. Today, my outspoken opposition to discrimination against LGBT people is driven as much by that memory as by a zeal for human rights in a broader sense.”

Virginia Delegate Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William) briefly debated his proposal to ban homosexuals from serving openly in the Virginia National Guard, according to InsideNOVA.com. Appearing of FOX & friends Tuesday alongside Claire Gastanaga of Equality Virginia, Marshall reiterated his contention that the Department of Defense’s own report shows that the repeal of military policy prohibiting openly gay service personal applies only to federal service in military and that enlisting in the Virginia National Guard is markedly different from enlisting in the United States Army, Marshall saying “I checked with the Virginia National Guard recruiters and Army recruiters we clearly have different admission standards right now. We have different policies. This is a separate unit. When you join the U.S. Army in Virginia, you don’t join the Virginia National Guard.” Adding that the repeal was based on bad comparisons and faulty logic, he went on to say, confusingly, “This has been the policy of the United States for 232 years and the moral assumption for the last 6,000 years, so when Congress decided to change this on the weekend when they’re in a lame duck session, when they’ve been repudiated by the voters and on a bill that dealt with the Small Business Administration and allowed no amendments except this, that’s a problem.”

The anti-gay Colorado-based Focus on the Family are questioning their commitment to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. in February because a gay advocacy group is co-sponsoring the event, the Colorado Springs Gazette reporting that CitizenLink, the lobbying arm of Focus on the Family, said that this might be the last time it sponsors CPAC since the Republican gay advocacy group, GOProud is also acting as a co-sponsoring. Tom Minnery, the senior vice-president of CitizenLink, said that “When you don’t have the influence of organisations like ours, you end up with influences from organisations like GOProud.”