The low road to violence: Governmental discrimination as a catalyst for pandemic hate crime

JA Garland - Law & Sexuality: Rev. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & …, 2001 - HeinOnline
JA Garland
Law & Sexuality: Rev. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Legal Issues, 2001HeinOnline
My father once told me that the saying" take the low road" was once quite popular in parts of
Alabama. To this day, neither of us is exactly sure what that saying means, although we do
know that the choice to take a low road has often made a disturbing difference for those
dragged along it against their will. When Steven Eric Mullins and Charles Butler traveled
such a road in Alabama in February 1999, they did it with Billy Jack Gaither-a gay man-
stuffed in the trunk of his 1. Charles Morgan addressed his speech on the bombing of the …
My father once told me that the saying" take the low road" was once quite popular in parts of Alabama. To this day, neither of us is exactly sure what that saying means, although we do know that the choice to take a low road has often made a disturbing difference for those dragged along it against their will. When Steven Eric Mullins and Charles Butler traveled such a road in Alabama in February 1999, they did it with Billy Jack Gaither-a gay man-stuffed in the trunk of his
1. Charles Morgan addressed his speech on the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to the Birmingham Young Men's Business Club the morning after the bombing. The speech, which became the subject of national debate in 1963, is reprinted in its entirety in CHARLEs MORGAN, Atimeto SPEAK 10-14 (1964).
HeinOnline