Where Is the Heterosexual Outrage Over Benjamin Balter's Suicide?

Where Is the Heterosexual Outrage Over Benjamin Balter's Suicide?

When 18 year old, aspiring violinist Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River on September 10th, 2010 after discovering his roommate had videotaped and publicized his homosexual liaisons, Clementi’s death inspired widespread sincere tributes and outraged condemnation.




The outrage came from those who had known and from those who hadn’t known the Rutgers University freshman as well as from non-Rutgers students nationwide, from an empathetic mass media and, mainly, from the homosexual community.



The condemnation–of Clementi’s alleged murderers Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei–emanated from the same sources whose fury intensified when a New Jersey judge gave Ravi a slap-on-the wrist jail sentence of 30 days and Wei copped a plea.



Regardless of the merits of the Ravi-Wei case, the question has now arisen as to why college students, the mass media, and gays aren’t outraged by the 2009 suicide of Benjamin Balter who was driven to that ultimate resolution of his personal angst because of homosexual molestation at the elite, private Horace Mann School in Riverdale, the Bronx.



Horace Mann’s school anthem, “Great is the truth and it prevails; mighty the youth the morrow hails. Lives come and go; stars cease to glow; but great is the truth and it prevails”, is as much a joke as the idea the school is “prestigious.” Truth is a foreign concept at Mann especially when it’s ugly truth.



Last Wednesday, Ben Balter’s mother, Kathy Howard, currently a teacher at Horace Mann and now in fear of losing her position, finally went public with a letter written by her son 19 years ago.



In his 1993 letter, then 16 year old Ben wrote, “I am writing concerning the faculty member Johannes Somary, chairman of the arts department. Recently, Mr. Somary has made grossly inappropriate sexual advances towards me,” once on a school trip and also during music lessons. Ben added that Somary had “kissed him, French kissed him, put his tongue in his mouth and that he put his hands down his pants.”



After receiving her son’s claim of clearly homosexual child sexual abuse, Howard confronted Somary, indignantly demanding, “How dare you put your tongue in my son’s mouth!” to which the gay pedophile blithely responded, ”That’s how we Swiss kiss.”



Subsequently, Howard met with Horace Mann trustees who bullied her and told her “to forget it, that I would not have a case because it would always be Ben’s word against Somary’s word and I would’ve had to have had the abuse on tape.” (



Had Ben Balter’s experiences at Mann been exceptional or unusual we could dismiss his allegations . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26784.)