IFI Joins Vigil for Mary Stachowicz, Chicago Woman Brutally Murdered Three Years Ago by Homosexual; Calls Media Silence 'Staggering' Compared to Matthew Shepard Case
11/13/2005 11:14:00 AM  |
Mary Stachowicz was murdered because she told the truth to a homosexual. The media has ignored her case while it made Matthew Shepard a household name. |  |  | Concerned Women for America's Culture & Family Institute honored Mary with this drawing after her horrible murder. |
IFI News Release
CHICAGO--Illinois Family Institute Executive Director Peter LaBarbera will be among those attending a candlelight vigil this (Sunday) evening for Mary Stachowicz, a devout Chicago Catholic woman who was brutally murdered three years ago by homosexual co-worker Nicholas Gutierrez, who was reportedly irate that she tried to persuade him to change his lifestyle.
The candlelight vigil will be held tonight at 6:15 in front of St. Hyacinth Basilica, located at 3636 W. Wolfram in Chicago.
The Stachowicz case has received infinitesimal media coverage compared to "gay" murder victim Matthew Shepard--despite the "hate crime" nature of her murder. Nicholas Gutierrez beat and stabbed Mary to death and then hid her mangled body in a crawl space. He then prayed with and consoled Stachowicz' family as they worried frantically about her disappearance.
Gutierrez confessed to police that he attacked Mary after an argument in which she urged him to change his homosexual lifestyle--discussions that reminded Gutierrez of his mother's disapproval.
"Mary Stachowicz is a modern day martyr who died because she told the truth to a man caught up in homosexuality," LaBarbera said. "Her compelling story is largely unknown to Americans, because the same media that devoted millions of print column inches and broadcast minutes to covering the Matthew Shepard murder case have largely ignored Mary's story."
Given the notoriety over the Shepard case, LaBarbera said the media silence on Stachowicz is "staggering."
LaBarbera said that, incredibly, some homosexual activists cheered Stachowicz's murder. One online writer, Barry, said that it was Gutierrez who was "verbally assaulted by homophobes relying on their religion," and asked sarcastically: "Where do I send a check for [Gutierrez's] defense fund?"
Another writer, Iris, posted this message on the ACLU Online Forum: "I really don't feel sorry for her. She paid the steep price for being an arrogant religious fascist. Too bad for her."
Many homosexuals denounced such comments. Laura Montgomery Rutt of the homosexual activist group Soulforce, which works in churches to oppose the traditional Christian view of homosexuality, said: "We condemn this murder, like we do all murders. A hate crime needs to have an intent to intimidate a whole class of people. If in this case, it was directed at this person and intended to intimidate Christians, that would be a hate crime in my mind."
Said IFI's LaBarbera: "The reality today is that growing secularist intolerance threatens to redefine Judeo-Christian beliefs as 'prejudice,' 'intolerance,' or worse, 'hatred.' The result is widespread intimidation of Christians and, in the most extreme cases, actual physical suffering or death for people like Mary who dare to boldly live out their faith and not check it at the church door on Sunday."
IFI is a non-profit, non-partisan group associated with Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and Alliance Defense Fund that works to protect marriage, the natural family and the sanctity of life in Illinois. Phone: 630-790-8370.
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