[Winona Online Democracy]
Dean,
So, how was the spelling and punctuation in that comic book? I'm just
wondering if the authors are wacko and illiterate, or just offensive ;) (In
case someone doesn't understand, that comment was meant to be humorous, and
was not intended to offend anyone- except maybe the morally challenged who
send such material)
Years back when HBC started as Luminet, a lot of people participated in the
online Winonanet, which was set up much like this. However, you didn't have
to sign your name, and most went by nicknames. I found that many people
were incredibly mean spirited when they could be anonymous. I really like
that e-democracy requires your real name, I think most people think twice
about what they write, when they know they can be called on it.
Cherisa Templeton
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>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Winona] yesterday's mail
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:55:44 EDT
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>[Winona Online Democracy]
>
>Not to re-open old wounds, but i just wanted to share a rather disturbing
>piece of mail (snail mail) i received recently.
>In an envelope addressed to me with no return address and postmarked in
>Rochester (all Winona mail goes through the Rochester office to be
>postmarked,
>doesn't it?) was a "comic book" (for lack of a better definition) entitled
>"Sin City". Poorly written and even more poorly illustrated this "comic
>book: consisted of an attack on homosexuality and gay rights from an
>extreme conservative Xian point of view.
>Even though a vast majority of the Xian world no longer holds this
>antiquated view of homosexuality, what bothered me more than the message
>was the fact that whoever sent it was apparently in such a hurry to save my
>soul that they forgot to put their return address on the envelope.
>Any coward can anonymously mail a religious track to someone they disagree
>with. At least the people who have engaged in the discussion surrounding
>the United
>Way's courageous decision here on onlinedemocarcy have had the courage to
>sign their names. I doubt if anyone on onlinedemocarcy sent that track to
>me, but if
>anyone who reads this is the culprit know that sending an anonymous
>anti-gay religious track on this issue is only going to further my
>commitment to eradicating the
>prejudice and bigotry felt by gay and lesbian members of our society.
>
>Dean A. Lanz
>
>
>
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