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To the Editors:
Re “String
of killings puts Tampa gays on edge,” news, Jan. 16):
There is a reason why the practice of homosexuality is denounced by every major
religion from Catholicism to Scientology. There is a reason why homosexual acts
are condemned by every religious leader from Pope John Paul to the Dalai Lama.
This reason is the practice of homosexual acts is unhealthy, dangerous and
wrong.
These poor young men in Florida believed the lies of those who push the homosexual
agenda, and have now paid with their lives. Very sad indeed.
But there is help available. Homosexuals can go straight. It is not too late.
Nothing is impossible to someone who honestly seeks to change.
Santa Monica, Calif.
To the Editors:
I came pretty close to laughing when I read Michael Alvear’s column taking
Rosie O’Donnell to task for not only not coming out when her talk show
was at the height of its popularity, but for “defending her silence” as
Alvear put it. (“With
friends like Rosie…” op-ed, Jan. 23).
Alvear then goes on to describe O’Donnell as being “morally wrong
for her silence.”
I beg your pardon? This coming from someone who was writing an excessively
graphic advice column called “Need Wood” under a pseudonym until
it suited him to “come out” with the fact that he is also “Woody
Miller”?
Doesn’t this strike anyone else as being at least somewhat hypocritical?
I’d like to remind Alvear that coming out is a personal journey that
each person has to negotiate on his own terms. Even if the person involved
has multimillion-dollar contracts and celebrity status that could be used as
sort of a bully pulpit. Perhaps O’Donnell was thinking about the invasion
of privacy in her partner’s life.
Alvear should be careful about throwing stones into someone else’s supposed
glass house. Karma’s a bitch, and it’s always having puppies.
Glenn Dale, Md.
in denial on Bush
To the Editors:
I can’t decide which has been more surreal: the Log Cabin dance of denial
about President Bush, or the Washington Blade’s commitment to covering
the dance without the tiny grain of irony that even the healthy among us now
require to stay sane (news, Jan. 30).
I recall an Uncle Tom explaining that a credible case could be made that gay
Republicans had put Bush in office. Will they now take responsibility for the
costly, demeaning battles we face?
Washington
To the Editors:
In President Bush’s State of the Union address, which was a thinly veiled
piece of election year politicking, he called for the protection of marriage.
His attempt to further marginalize gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and
queer communities only further demonstrates his bigotry and the chokehold the
immoral and ignorant religious right has on his presidency.
The president is running scared because he recognizes that the morally bankrupt,
prejudice-filled, and hateful rhetoric of the right no longer has a death grip
on American lives, values and politics. It is only a matter of time before
the constitutional promise of liberty and justice for all made more than 200
years ago becomes fact not fiction for all people living in these United States
of America.
Chair, National Lavender Green Caucus
Green Party of the United States
Washington
To the Editors:
Let’s ask ourselves whether the good fight should be for the rights and
privileges every other culture in America enjoys, but should we use a word
other than “marriage”? Do we really want to be associated with
a word that has a 50-percent failure rate among heterosexuals?
If I were in a committed relationship, I would not want to have to travel
to New England to legitimize it in the eyes of the law. I would not have to
call it “marriage” to feel legitimate.
What I would want under the law is for the relationship to be legally recognized,
to receive the same tax credits and breaks as every other American couple,
to adopt a child without challenge if my partner and I so desired, to visit
my partner in the hospital without restraint and to inherit all we worked toward
as a couple should he die — and vice versa.
La Jolla, Calif.
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