[Winona] Lori Baumgardt's April 5 posting

[Steve Schild Winona Online Democracy]

[Winona Online Democracy]

If I correctly understand Lori Baumgardt�s April 5 posting and the article 
reprinted therein, the point is this: People who don�t accept homosexuality 
must be ignorant. You can tell, because they don�t spell or write well.

So, to apply the same logic (and I use the term �logic� very loosely here), 
are people who accept homosexuality ignorant, too, if they don�t spell or 
write well? If you wonder why I ask,  check Dwayne Voegeli�s April 5 posting. 
Then ask yourself if Mr. Voegeli, a schoolteacher who wrote in to agree with 
Ms. Baumgardt, is ignorant because he doesn�t correctly spell �difference� or 
the preposition �to.� I trust that Ms. Baumgardt, Mr. Voegeli, and the authors 
of the article reprinted in Ms. Baumgardt�s posting are less likely to equate 
their own errors with ignorance than they are to do so with errors made by 
those with whom they disagree.

A related point: Not long ago someone was thrown off this list for calling 
someone else a �twit.� The article reprinted in Ms. Baumgardt�s posting is 
nothing more than name-calling by another name. If Online Democracy�s goal is 
to encourage and nurture debate, to get people to speak to and listen to one 
another, to try to understand rather than to try to win, then participants on 
the list should use better judgment--and more kindness--than is shown in the 
article in Ms. Baumgart�s posting.

Steve Schild 

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