The Best Thing I've Read in a Long Time

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This woman hit the nail on the head.

Sunday, April 30, 2000
By SHARON UNDERWOOD
For the Valley News (White River Junction, VT)

Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I've taken enough from you good people.

I'm tired of your foolish rhetoric about the "homosexual agenda" and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.

My firstborn son started suffering at the hands of the moral little thugs from your moral, upright families from the time he was in the first grade. He was physically and verbally abused from first grade straight through high school because he was perceived to be gay.

He never professed to be gay or had any association with anything gay, but he had the misfortune not to walk or have gestures like the other boys. He was called "fag" incessantly, starting when he was 6.

In high school, while your children were doing what kids that age should be doing, mine labored over a suicide note, drafting and redrafting it to be sure his family knew how much he loved them. My sobbing 17-year-old tore the heart out of me as he choked out that he just couldn't bear to continue living any longer, that he didn't want to be gay and that he couldn't face a life without dignity.

You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don't know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn't put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse. God gave you brains so that you could think, and it's about time you started doing that.

At the core of all your misguided beliefs is the belief that this could never happen to you, that there is some kind of subculture out there that people have chosen to join. The fact is that if it can happen to my family, it can happen to yours, and you won't get to choose. Whether it is genetic or whether something occurs during a critical time of fetal development, I don't know. I can only tell you with an absolute certainty that it is inborn.

If you want to tout your own morality, you'd best come up with something more substantive than your heterosexuality. You did nothing to earn it; it was given to you. If you disagree, I would be interested in hearing your story, because my own heterosexuality was a blessing I received with no effort whatsoever on my part. It is so woven into the very soul of me that nothing could ever change it. For those of you who reduce sexual orientation to a simple choice, a character issue, a bad habit or something that can be changed by a 10-step program, I'm puzzled. Are you saying that your own sexual orientation is nothing more than something you have chosen, that you could change it at will? If that's not the case, then why would you suggest that someone else can?

A popular theme in your letters is that Vermont has been infiltrated by outsiders. Both sides of my family have lived in Vermont for generations. I am heart and soul a Vermonter, so I'll thank you to stop saying that you are speaking for "true Vermonters."

You invoke the memory of the brave people who have fought on the battlefield for this great country, saying that they didn't give their lives so that the "homosexual agenda" could tear down the principles they died defending. My 83-year-old father fought in some of the most horrific battles of World War II, was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart.

He shakes his head in sadness at the life his grandson has had to live. He says he fought alongside homosexuals in those battles, that they did their part and bothered no one. One of his best friends in the service was gay, and he never knew it until the end, and when he did find out, it mattered not at all. That wasn't the measure of the man.

You religious folk just can't bear the thought that as my son emerges from the hell that was his childhood he might like to find a lifelong companion and have a measure of happiness. It offends your sensibilities that he should request the right to visit that companion in the hospital, to make medical decisions for him or to benefit from tax laws governing inheritance.

How dare he? you say. These outrageous requests would threaten the very existence of your family, would undermine the sanctity of marriage.

You use religion to abdicate your responsibility to be thinking human beings. There are vast numbers of religious people who find your attitudes repugnant. God is not for the privileged majority, and God knows my son has committed no sin.

The deep-thinking author of a letter to the April 12 Valley News who lectures about homosexual sin and tells us about "those of us who have been blessed with the benefits of a religious upbringing" asks: "What ever happened to the idea of striving . . . to be better human beings than we are?"

Indeed, sir, what ever happened to that?

The Best Thing I've Read All Year
 
Excellent letter.

Unfortunately, the people to whom the letter is written do not function in the realm of other thinking humans, and would likely respond:

"God hates fags. God hates your son. He should have committed suicide to rid the world of filth like him."

It's sickening.
 
I was just surfing and I happen to open this most disturbing site. Why do people that put something like this together, believe they are "good"?:

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Defend the Family - Defending the Natural Family, Marriage and Family Values

At the bottom of the page were a bunch of links like:

· Douglas Spink Arrested In BESTIALITY Case: Mice In Vaseline, Dogs, Horses F...
· Is sex with animals becoming accepted?
· Former Mr Gay UK 'slit lover's throat then marinated his diced flesh with f
· Secret snapshots
· Not even baseball safe from 'gay' promotions
Masculine Christianity
· Analysis: Repealing 'gay' ban would 'paralyze' forces
· Spain promotes bestiality to school children
· "Gay" Writer Admits Most Fascist Leaders Were "Gay"
· Church of alleged lesbian rapist/murderer searched again
· Help available for those struggling with same-sex attraction
· Palin church promotes reparative therapy

The Pink Swastika: 4th Edition

The Pink Swastika is a thoroughly researched, eminently readable, demolition of the "gay" myth, symbolized by the pink triangle, that the Nazis were anti-homosexual.

My Letter to the Ugandan Parliament and Reply
perspective: pro-family
from the 'Uganda' topic
23-May-2010

As the duly elected representatives of a sovereign democratic nation, it is certainly within your prerogative to regulate criminal conduct in your society through the threat of harsh punishment. Indeed, until recent decades similar laws were used successfully in the United States and other Western countries to suppress the spread of sexual deviance. It is also Uganda’s right and responsibility as a member of the community of nations to advocate the social policies it deems necessary for the preservation and advancement of civilization, and I applaud the Ugandan government for taking a firm stand against the legitimization of homosexuality in the face of intense opposition from nations with different views.
 
Great letter. Shame that some of us are so damned ignorant that we find homosexuals so frightening.

If we would all just mind our own damned business and stop thinking we have the right to tell other people how they should live, we would be better off as a country. That goes equally for the stupid left and the stupid right.
 
Outstanding letter - very heartbreaking.

One of my sisters is a lesbian who "came out" when she was in college. I am very grateful that my parents have been so accepting and supportive of her. Fortunately, living in CA, it's not the issue it is other places.

She has been very involved with a charity organization to which she brought our folks as her dates a couple of years ago. During the event, word spread that they were there - and many of the gays and lesbians attending wanted to meet them. Sadly, most of them were estranged from their families (I'm betting largely due to the hateful environment created by the "communities" described in the letter above).

Life is challenging enough without bullying someone else and tearing apart his family. I hope all of the people in that town who contributed to that family's pain recognize themselves - although I doubt they have the proper capacity for self-awareness.
 
Outstanding letter - very heartbreaking.

One of my sisters is a lesbian who "came out" when she was in college. I am very grateful that my parents have been so accepting and supportive of her. Fortunately, living in CA, it's not the issue it is other places.

She has been very involved with a charity organization to which she brought our folks as her dates a couple of years ago. During the event, word spread that they were there - and many of the gays and lesbians attending wanted to meet them. Sadly, most of them were estranged from their families (I'm betting largely due to the hateful environment created by the "communities" described in the letter above).

Life is challenging enough without bullying someone else and tearing apart his family. I hope all of the people in that town who contributed to that family's pain recognize themselves - although I doubt they have the proper capacity for self-awareness.

well said.
 
my daughter is gay. when she told me i remember thinking i wouldn't have to worry about her getting pregnant. :lol:

her generation is much more accepting of differences among people.

some decry this as a breakdown in our moral standards, but i see it as the exact opposite. good letter
 
my daughter is gay. when she told me i remember thinking i wouldn't have to worry about her getting pregnant. :lol:

her generation is much more accepting of differences among people.

some decry this as a breakdown in our moral standards, but i see it as the exact opposite. good letter

Truer words never spoken del.

Thanks for sharing.
 

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