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Little Boy Lost
Recently a young boy set out in his posh neighborhood to sell candy bars (cookies?) and gift wrapping paper for his PTA. He was a beautiful youngster and loved to show off in front of the video cameras, loved to dance, had ambitions of being an actor or entertainer. He would win a walkie talkie set if he outsold the other kids, but wasn t really interested in the prize, he was mainly interested in talking with people, and meeting new friends. This story was on MSNBC, Jan. 3, 1998, Weekend Magazine with Stone Phillips , but the story was on another TV magazine earlier. His name was Eddie Manzie, he was eleven years old. His parents thought that because they lived in the upscale neighborhood their children would be safe. The homes in the neighborhood looked as if they might sell for around $250.OOO, and up. It was not a poor nor lower class neighborhood. To make a long story short, Eddie was raped and strangled.
His body was found in very short order, and the murderer almost as soon. The person who murdered and raped Eddie was a fifteen year old boy. There was nothing remarkable about Eddie, but the boy who murdered him had a long history of mental and/or emotional problems. He had been practicing homosexuality for some time, and had had four rendezvous with a 42 year old man he had met on the Internet and had traveled long distances to have the trysts. He was a computer "nerd" and had his own website. The forty-two year old man liked boys. The boy, whose name was Sam Warner, had had violent episodes and his parents had tried to have him committed, but without success. The scenario seemed to be quite simple: The beautiful young boy went to the door, the neighbor took him inside, raped him (or not, nobody knows-- it may have been consensual) and then strangled the child.
There was outrage in the community and endless speculation as to who was to blame. Some said the psychiatrists was to blame, some said the parents were to blame for allowing the eleven-year-old to go door-to-door soliciting, some said the parents of the perpetrator were at fault everyone had someone to blame. No one even came close to placing the blame. Actually, the blame was easy to place because in the first news story it was touched upon that the family of the fifteen-year-old were staunch Catholics.
Given, a strong Catholic family and a young boy turning homosexual. This is a perfect recipe for disaster.
You can see the father ranting and raving at the boy, telling him he was going to Hell, he was an abominations in the eyes of God, he was a disgrace to the family, he was the lowest of the low, he shamed his father and his mother, he deserved to die. The ranting and raving had probably gone on for years. The boy absorbed this and developed a load of guilt that was to eventually destroy him. Even if the ranting and raving had not been overt, the weekly treks to Sunday services had made their mark. Religion need not be spoken to be effective. One need not even live in a religious family for religion to permeate the psyche of an individual. It can be absorbed by osmosis from the community. There is not a single individual in the entire white man s culture that is not affected by religion. A boy, overwhelmed by guilt, hounded day in and day out with a developing sex drive on one hand and a desire to do the "right" thing for his family and parents on the other, terrified of going to Hell for not following the "good" book, all this combined to make the boy so confused he dared not let the liffle boy live after having sex with him. It stands to reason he killed the liffle boy to keep him quiet. Murder is not a part of homosexuality. Nor is it a part of pedophillia. However, it seems fairly obvious that guilt can drive one to madness, and fear of exposure can drive one to murder, and all of these are the bastard children of religion.
Who was to blame in this incident? It isn t hard for me to figure it out. The answer is obvious: The Catholic Church.
