Anderson man chases gay son from home

By Pearce Adams
Originally published 05:53 a.m., July 18, 2008
Updated 05:53 a.m., July 18, 2008

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ANDERSON COUNTY — Violence broke out
Sunday in Anderson when an 18-year-old man returned home from a gay
pride parade and was assaulted by his father.
According to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, the battering took place about 1 p.m. Sunday on P Street.
During the assault, the teen's 49-year-old father yelled, cursed,
swung a baseball bat, prayed and tried to “cast the demon of
homosexuality out of him,” according to the teen's version of events to
Deputy S.C. Weymouth, the incident report states.
About 2 p.m. Wednesday, the teen said his father punched him when he
returned to the house for clothes that he left on Sunday, the report
states.
The teen told deputies that his father “has a problem with him being
gay and that is why he hit him with the baseball bat Sunday,” Weymouth
said in his report.
The teen filed both complaints about 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Deputies, who have not been able to make immediate contact with the
teen's father, report that both incidents are under investigation.

posted on July 18, 2008 4:45 PM ()

Comments:

The father might think the son has a problem, but it's the father with the problem! A SERIOUS problem! Poor kid and I'll be surprised to learn if anything productive and justified comes out of this.

comment by donnamarie on Aug 2, 2008 5:05 PM ()

Papa is clearly mad as a March Hare. That's a clear cut assault and battery! And "The incident is still under investigation?" That's polite for "The police are sitting on their thumbs, hoping the kid will take the hint and disappear." Most do. I hope he puts a thousand miles and fifteen years between them.