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Friday, 4/6/2001
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Friday, 4/6/2001
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 People should respect gay activistsI am writing in response to Chad Williams' article on March 8 titled "Gay Activists Show Intolerance." Mr. Williams implies that gay activists promoting hate crime legislation are trying to keep anti-gay advocates from expressing their opinions about what they perceive to be gay immorality. Mr. Williams, you and your friends have just as much a right to free assembly and press as my friends and I do. The difference is that you use these constitutional rights to spread hate and intolerance when we are trying to enact legislative laws that protect all citizens under the law regardless of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. I am not intolerant of the people who try to actively persecute me, convert me (religiously or otherwise) or oppress my friends and me as you suggest. I pity them; I pity them for not being able to look past one little part of my personality and see the love and respect that I have for all of humanity. Mr. Williams makes many outrageous claims in his letter that cannot be addressed in 300 words or less. All of these claims are either unsubstantiated or lacking other key information that puts the claims into a correct light instead of the slighted truth he presents. I do not mean this to be a personal attack; simply furthering clarification of what has long been an issue for radical right heterosexuals in a world of mixing values and morals. I respect Mr. Williams and his opinions of what he believes to be my immorality. I would like to believe that respect is reciprocal. So, then, who is the one showing the intolerance, Mr. Williams? Who is preaching intolerance at our pulpits and teaching it at our schools and dinner tables — teaching our children to hate and not to love? Chad Sullivan |
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