Eva Lovia Ere

Speaking as a gay man who lives in a very big city, this is one issue far too many people are afraid, or embarrassed to talk about it, but we have to, because it happens a lot more than you could imagine. I have a friend who works on the Toronto police force. He tells me that men being raped, and/or assaulted is not that uncommon, particularly through these dating apps. Most of them are too ashamed and embarrassed to come forward and tell the police, even though Toronto is a very gay friendly city, that stigma still remains, and we are shaming people into silence. I’ve been very lucky in my life, having met my husband, when I was only 20, before the Internet existed, I met them by a newspaper advertisement in the personal section, remember those? It was love at first sight, and we have been together for 34 years now, but not everybody is so lucky. Even back, then, through personal advertisements in the newspaper, men have been attacked and raped more times than I care to remember. No hesitation, I can honestly say that almost every friend who is gay that I know of, has had either violence or rape happened to them sometime over the past few decades, while using advertisements, either in the old fashion newspapers, or the more modern dating apps. take heed of the advice they give you in this video, if you’re going to meet somebody you haven’t met before, make sure at least one person knows where you’re going, allow them to track your movements using the find friends app, it’s available for Apple, and android, allowing whomever you designate to follow your movements. Option number two, you can use a tracking device like an apple AirTag. I keep both with me at all times, because you never know what could happen. I’ll share with you one thing that’s very painful for me to share. About five years ago, one of my dearest and oldest friends, who had been single for a few years, decided to start dating, used tinder, and another app called grinder, I don’t know which app it was, but he met a man, didn’t tell anybody that he had arrange a date, and foolishly agreed to meet this complete stranger in his own house. That was the last time anybody saw him alive. He went to the guys house, and from what the police have told us, he was pulled inside, immediately beaten over the head with a crowbar, knocked unconscious. He was then tied up, stripped, naked, raped, and then beaten to death. Because it happened in a private residence the police don’t have all the details, and they never will. Forensics can only tell them so much. Blunt force trauma was the cause of death, but I just keep playing it over and over in my head what he must’ve went through in those last few moments. Even if you are homophobic, we are still human beings, nobody deserves this, and it happens to a lot of women as well. The media doesn’t cover it as much as they should, but most times, especially if it’s a gay man, families, do not want the media to know. I was there with his parents when they found out, you do not want to ever hear a mother scream the way I heard her scream that day, it’s the most heart wrenching, horrific sound you could ever imagine. they nor I will ever be the same, luckily, they caught his murderer, and he was sentenced to life in prison with no parole, but that will never bring back my dear friend. So please be careful, it might seem like a lot of fun, but the Internet is full of danger, people pretending to be somebody they’re not, if you decide to use an app, that’s fine, millions of people do, just make sure that you meet in a public place for the first time, make sure at least one person knows exactly where you are, and at what time, and make sure somebody has the ability to track your location. 99% of the time nothing happens, but that 1% is well worth the extra effort of making sure someone is watching out for you, I wouldn’t wish what I went through with my friend and his family on anybody, it completely devastated me, and his poor family will never recover. Please don’t ever let it happen again, just imagine if it was somebody that you loved, how would you feel? Thank you for listening, and please be careful and stay safe, thank you.

Minor correction. The Rock actually started off as a Football Player. He played for the Miami Hurricanes from 91 to 94. He even helped win us the Championship. In 95 he signed up to play for The Calgary Stampeders but was cut from the team.

The story of Sodom is the lesson of using a moral imperative to justify the genocidal slaughter of a people for a valuable resource, in this case, water. This is made perfectly clear in a Genesis 13 passage.

I've literally been laughing so hard because the dog looks so dead inside😂