Kaique Batista dos Santos (Facebook picture)

Warning this is pretty upsetting.  I hate reading stories like this but I think it is very important to raise awareness of things like this.  A 16-year old boy was tortured to death in Brazil by a gang of skinheads after attending a gay-themed party near the stadium that will host the World Cup ceremony this summer…  Kaique Batista dos Santos, 16, has ALL OF his teeth PULLED out with iron rods and then was kicked/beaten to death…This is making me tear up and just feel sick.  There is something very human that happens to us when we read things like this.  It touches us somewhere deep…at least those of us with a heart.

Here is what is sister said, “These thugs enjoy beating and torturing with their bare hands and they are please to take the lives of homosexuals.”.

A vigil will take place in memory of the fallen teenager in Sao Paulo on Friday and the official statement from the Department of Public Safety is that this report is “confidential”.  BS.  Do something about it.

Such a tragic loss.  16.  An innocent life taken because of the horrible propaganda that is spread about the gays.  This has got to stop.  And something that people need to get is that every time gay marriage is denied or every time you hear a preacher at Church say that being gay is sin, it quietly supports this type of behavior.  This is a fact.  That is why I say any sort of anti-gay propaganda is supporting hate-crimes.  Please think about this and pass the message on.