Gay bashing victim to perpetrators: You are cowards

At an Austin, Tex. sentencing hearing for two men who pled guilty to several assault charges in the sexual assault and beating of a gay man, the victim faced his attackers and called them "cowards, not real men, pathetic," and "spineless." He continued:

"You don't want the world to know you are rapists," the victim said. "You don't want the world to know you rape faggots."

And:

A police affidavit says that during the assault, one of the assailants told the victim that the book of Leviticus in the Bible "says to put to death any man that lays with another man, and tonight we are passing judgment on you for being a faggot and a queer."

"That was quoted by you, Darren," the victim told Gay in court Thursday. "Like all religious fanatics, you pick and choose religious verses to fit your hatred and fit your crimes."

As the two men were led away, one's mother called out to her son "I'm very proud of you."