[Winona Online Democracy]
Hello Lori and Online Democracy Folks,
I agree with Lori. I've been so saddened to see all the hate, prejudice,
and ignorance about homosexual rights in the newspaper.
I have been so busy with other work that I thought I would sit this fray
out but after reading the newspaper letters over the last couple of days, I
decided to stand up and say something. I sent in a letter to the newspaper
today.
I have read some really enlightened and caring words in this e-mail list.
I hope some of you might consider sharing those thoughts with the
newspaper. If you are interested, the e-mail addresses are:
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Winona Daily News: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (350 word limit)
Winona Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I had even deleted the messages because I was so busy and I knew I couldn't
read them even though I know I wanted too.
Could someone answer this question for me? Have people discussed the idea
of starting another Boy Scouts organization that is very similiar to the
current wonderful one but does not discriminate?
This would be somewhat similiar to the King of England forming his own
church, the Anglican Church, that was just like Catholicism but had one
major differance, it allowed divorces.
Thank you.
Dwayne Voegeli
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>Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 13:41:38 -0500
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>From: Lori Baumgardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Winona] Recent Newspaper Letters
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> Anyone else getting depressed by the overwhelming ignorance and hatred
>being spewed forth by recent letters to the editors verbally bashing gays
>and lesbians? I found the following on the internet awhile back. I think
>it puts things into perspective. ---------------------- Remove My Name
>From Your Rooster The Best of Homophobic Mail by Kathleen DeBold and
>George Neighbors, Jr. (contributing writers) Reprinted from The Lavender
>Network Newspaper, February 1994. [One of the joys of working for a gay
>organization is the singular pleasure we get from reading the daily dose
>of hate mail. We've arranged our favorite snippets in a letter form so we
>could share with you the best of Beavises and Buttheads of the biblically
>impaired:] "Dear Faggots, Dikes, Soddomites, Lissbians, and Queer Bates:
>I recently came across your address in a magazine I was reading and a plea
>for donations to support your perversions caught my eye. Their is no
>excuse for you. Your all sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick,
>sick, sick. Gays are barf-inducing because you know what they do in
>private. Sex organs are not very sanitarilly clean. Regardless of a man's
>ability as an artist, dress designer, or choreographer (three favorite
>professions, I'm sure) the bottom line is that he enjoys [Lavender
>editors' note: a long, explicit and obliviously well-researched
>description of gay male sex]. I'm sure that lesbians engage in similar
>disgusting acts [Lavender editors' note: no description: they still can't
>figure out what we do in bed!]. Who is Barry Goldwater compared to God?
>Check the following versus of scripture: Genises, Romens, Leviticals, and
>Profits. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. The Bible makes it
>clear that Jesus preferred straight men. That is why God sent you Aides.
>In our day Aids were helpers in the principals office. The homophiles
>are nothing short of a hatred spreading group that has joined forces with
>the KKK, and the brown shirters and the antisemetics. Homos have no right
>to teach in our public schools. You just want to pray on our children and
>lead them in a stray. There isn't a homosexual alive who fought and died
>for his country like we did. My wife is not a lesbian and neither is my
>son. I've never had sex with a man and neither has my wife. I hope that
>your campaigning for homosexuals is due to your being unknoweable rather
>than you thinking the things they do are just `sexual preferance.' Keep
>your sexual perversions to yourself and I'll keep my sexual perversions to
>myself. I also challenge the word "homophobic" as fear of hobosexuals.
>I'm not homophobic--I have no fear of your type, only contempt. And now
>you have homophobia to wave around just like the jews have anti-semenic.
>So lets get rid of the word homophobia: How about "Homo-Blyiccch" (gag,
>choke, vomit)? Sure, you can call me homophonic if you like but I know
>what's right and what's wrong. When all you perverts are in hell it will
>be a much better place. I am curious about how you got our name. I
>suppose that's a secret you'll keep buried in your bosom. I do not
>encourage anyone likely to place me on your mailing list to get more such
>weird offers. I demand that you remove me from your rooster! [Signed]
>Satan Hell Fire Lane Hell, Inc." [As you can see, we have met the enemy,
>and they are illiterate.]
>
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