In October of 1992, a guy names Steve Woods (at least I think that
was his first name) was killed by nine gang members in Southern
California by having a paint roller slammed into his brain.  He died
after 25 days in a coma.

The story goes that Woods and his buddies went to the beach after a
foot ball game for beer and food.  Two of their group had to leave
the gathering early and so three of them got into a car and drove to
the gateway which leads out of the beach parking.

At the gateway, they encountered another vehicle coming into the
beach parking.  The driver of the car stopped and waved at the other
car thinking it was more school friends coming to join the party on
the beach.  The driver, it seems, got out of the car and was
threatened by various gang members and hit in the face.  He got back
into his car and went to warn his buddies on the beach that they
should leave as "trouble" was on its way.

As the whole group left the beach, they found that the gang members
had blocked the exit and taken up weapons, knowing that the others
would have to go through the gateway.  The lead car which Woods was
riding as passenger in was so badly trashed that investigators said it
looked like it had been through a war.

Some time during the assualt one of the gang members shoved the paint
roller into Woods' head.  Six were charged with second degree murder,
four have been found guilty, and the remaining two are still as yet to
go to trial.

What's on-topic to this forum is the fact that the defense of one of
the gang members asked the jury how this fine Christian member of the
community -- a man who regularly went to church and was an Eagle
Scout -- could have committed such a crime.

So much for the myth that claiming Christianity doesn't grant special
rights.

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In later disclosure during the O. J. Simpson trial it was found that
one of the lawyers for the defense of O. J. Simpson planted a Christian
bible on a table in front of O. J.'s fireplace -- the day before the
Jury members were walked through the house to get a general look at
the place where O. J. lived.

The fact is that claiming Christianity grants special rights.  When a
convict is up before a parole board, claiming that one's a Christian
grants special dispensation -- against all logic and reason.

Were people to have firm knowledge of the history of Christianity and
realize that belief in the Christanic deities in no way detracts one from
being inhumanly criminal, such special rights and dispensations would
be a thing of the past.