Hearts break on Valentine's day

A teenage boy was brutally slaughtered in a middle-school computer lab in Oxnard, California, last Tuesday. Today, his murderer was charged with a hate crime, because the motive seems to be that he was different.

Susan Russell has a challenge especially for we Anglicans:

If our eyes are not open to the truth that GLBT people live in fear of their very lives throughout the global communion of ours then shame on us as Anglicans.

A commenter on her blog said:

We live in a sad time when the freedom to express oneself without harming others attracts harm to oneself by others.