"Well, anyone's life experience would be degraded by having a pesty queer in it. "

>To any greater extent than having a pesty evangelical ini t? A pesty vegan in it? A pesty PETA member in it? A pesty Neocon? No.

"Now, if a possum was digging under your chickenyard fence-wire, you'd plug him."

>>A possum isn’t a person–it isn’t even a pesty evangelical. I’d be inclined to cut the possum some slack--it's acting in accord with it's nature. But to date there's no evidence (at least that I'm aware of) that the victim was doing anything equivalent to diggin under McInerney's fence..

"True, he wasn't through it yet, but you can reasonably surmise the possum is going to suck eggs or eat chickens once he gets in there."

>>There was absolutely no reason to presume the victim was trying to do anything other than express who he was. I know of no evidence to suggest he’d even communicated an attraction to McInenary.

"So Brandon could reasonably surmise that the queer wanted to use him sexually which would be a fate worse than death and therefore a situation that called for the termination of the offending party in order for there to be, without a doubt, a normal life without a queer in it."

>>He could assume this based on what, exactly? Be specific. (And spare us "You know what they’re like", since clearly you don’t know what they’re like.)

"This would also serve to give notice to other queers to avert their eyes when a certain butt is in the room."

>>Whenever did "serving notice" justify premeditated murder?

"You let one queer make your life miserable then you will have millions of queers making your life miserable. Better to nip it in the bud."

>>So I should start killing evagelical Christians? After all, you let one evangelical make your life miserable...

"A stitch in time saves nine!"

>>Only if the garment you're repairing actually is torn and requires stitching, dd.