The Scranton Times today published a letter-to-the-editor that contains blatant homophobic rhetoric. Anthony DePaolo says that homosexuality doesn’t provide happiness, it’s unnatural, and it harms children.
If somebody sent a blatantly racist letter-to-the-editor, somehow I doubt that it would be printed. Why, then, did the Times allow this trash in there?
Bigotry is pervasive in our society when it comes to homosexuals. They can’t get married (but straight people can) and they can’t fight and die for our freedoms in the armed forces (only straight people can). Now, DePaolo gets in there and joins the “I hate gays” chorus. As you may have noticed, I’ve been pretty critical of the Republican Party, calling their anit-gay stances “hatred.” Denying equal rights based on sexuality, whatever false logic they want to use to back it up, qualifies as hatred in my book. Remember when Bush said terrorists “hate our freedom”? Yeah, that made no sense to me. The issues were probably a little more broad than that. How can you hate freedom? But then, I see all of this homophobic, anti-gay rhetoric, and I think to myself, these people must hate the freedom of gays. They restrict it, and limit it.
I hope the Times doesn’t print this kind of trash any longer. Even if their intent was to showcase an ignorant opinion, it’s still bigotry in print.
