Best Bacon Ranch Chicken

Our meal tonight is a variation of an old favorite. Mixing chicken with cream cheese and ranch dressing is a classic. Our usual LGBT hero will be replaced by an important legal topic that effects all LGBT's, “The Homosexual Panic”

Here chicken thighs are roasted with cream cheese and a ranch dressing with bacon. Throw in some fresh roasted broccoli and you have a wonderful meal that is an easy clean-up!

Ingredients

• 4 slices thick cut bacon

FOR THE CHICKEN

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 4 (2-pound, total) chicken thighs
• salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon smoked or sweet paprika
• 1 head of fresh broccoli

FOR THE RANCH CREAM CHEESE

• 4- ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 tbs Ranch dressing mix OR:
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder
• ¼ teaspoon dried dill weed
• ½ teaspoon dried chives

FOR GARNISH

• chopped fresh parsley
• sliced green scallions

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400F.

Lightly grease a 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.

 Cut up the fresh broccoli into Florets set aside.

Set a large skillet over medium-high heat and add in bacon; cook until crispy.

Remove bacon from skillet and set aside. DON'T discard bacon fat.

Return skillet to heat and add vegetable oil to the remaining bacon fat.

Season chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika.

Add chicken to the hot oil - you may have to do this in batches if skillet isn't big enough - and cook chicken for 6 to 8 minutes, or until golden brown.

Flip over the chicken, add butter, and continue to cook for 6 more minutes.

Remove chicken from skillet and arrange in previously prepared baking dish. Set aside.

Put the broccoli into the skillet with the chicken grease and stir to coat. Spoon this around the pieces of chicken in the baking dish.

In a small bowl combine cream cheese and 1 Tbs of the ranch mix powder; mix until thoroughly combined. Taste for seasonings and adjust accordingly. *You can also just stir in 1 tablespoon of store-bought ranch seasoning.

Top each chicken piece with 2 tablespoons of the cream cheese mixture. Press the pieces of bacon into the cheese.

Bake, uncovered, for 25 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and cheese is melted and lightly browned.

Remove from oven.

Garnish with fresh parsley and scallions.

Serve.

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Homosexual Panic Defense

In legal practice there are, of course, the laws. These are the statutes and regulations set forth by government and signed into effect.

There is, however, much more. This is refereed to as the “Second Body of the Law”. It is made up of how the courts have interpreted those laws and set what is called “legal precedent”. It is within this area we find the subject of our article today.

Researching how the courts dealt with homosexuality is difficult. The words for the gay sex act were considered so vile, for centuries they were not allowed to be used in court! Sometimes phrases were used like: “The certain detestable sin of the Greeks”. Terms were kept so vague often the defendant never knew just what he was being charged with!

I shall try to describe the “Homosexual Panic Defense” in layman's terms. (since this is set up by lawyers – you can count on it being much more involved)

A homosexual is of course a vile and detestable creature so horrifying that when unexpectedly exposed to this, it can be expected to induce a temporary insanity, forcing the poor victim (the murderer) to commit an act that he normally would never even consider.

The loss of life may have been regrettable but not unexpected. The loathsome disgusting proximity would cause a reflex to rid society of this monster and make the bathrooms once again safe for our children.

The net result of this precedent lead to the reality that you could be beaten to death for looking the wrong way in the men's room. And the perpetrator would be hailed as a hero.

In 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders listed "homosexual panic disorder."

Today there is an effort in the legal community to outlaw this defense

(including California in 2014, Illinois beginning last year, and Rhode Island in June.)

According to the LGBT Bar Association, it's usually invoked in three legal senses to mitigate murder charges: a defense of insanity, provocation, or self-defense.

Still, gay panic persists in the courts. A University of California–Los Angeles law review found that, since 1960, about half the states have issued court opinions dealing with the defense—and 16 of those were after 2000. Often, it doesn't work: Florida, Illinois, and Kansas courts have rejected the defense under state laws, and juries have rejected it across the country. But sometimes it does work, either by deadlocking juries or mitigating murder charges.

In September of 2015, 32-year-old Daniel Spencer was stabbed to death in his own home in Austin, Texas. His murderer, James Miller Jr., claimed he killed Spencer in self-defense after Spencer had come on to him. Miller and Spencer were drinking and playing music together shortly before the attack. Miller argued he reacted in self-defense but never claimed that Spencer intended to cause him bodily harm.

In April of last year, a Travis County jury found Miller guilty of a lesser charge, criminally negligent homicide. He received a sentence of 10 years' probation and six months in county jail.

“I have a huge hole in my heart. Something’s wrong in the world when you lose your child before you go,” the victim’s mother, Marsha Spencer, told the jury. “I’m tortured by the thought of how Daniel died and I’m tortured by the fact that he suffered and that he was alone when he died. It’s a loss that cuts deeply.”
The jury apparently didn’t care about the hole in her heart as much as they did the idea of a gay man supposedly making a pass at a straight man. To them, that’s deserving of death.

Trans panic is a similar defense applied in cases of assault, manslaughter, or murder of a transgender individual, with whom the assailant(s) engaged in sexual relations unaware that the victim is transgender until seeing them naked, or further into or post sexual activity.

In Australia, it is known as the homosexual advance defense

Today the gay panic defense is generally invoked in cases where the guilt of the defendant is unquestioned, but only to strengthen a more "traditional criminal law defense such as insanity, diminished capacity, provocation, or self-defense" and is not meant to provide justification of the crime on its own. While using the gay panic defense to explain insanity has typically not been successful in winning a complete acquittal, diminished capacity, provocation, and self-defense have all been used successfully to reduce charges and sentences. 
 
Often in US courts, judges and juries may have cited homosexual solicitation as a mitigating factor, resulting in reduced culpability and sentences.

Some legal remedies have been proposed: Potential "gay shield" laws would exclude evidence pertaining to the victim's history, identity, and behavior (the way rape evidentiary shield laws protect a victim from cross-examination of her sexual reputation and behavior) to avoid playing on the potential homophobic and transphobic biases of a jury.

For the foreseeable future we will still see cases were the victim will be called a monster and the murderer portrayed as the hero.