Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 109 Editor's Choice: 12
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Not sure what to think
[Read the article: Sexiest Man Living 2007]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The list (which is an idea that has long been the staple of the teen magazines, not serious news magazines) included:
a man who tried to kill himself and a substance-abuser
a man who has been long rumored to have abused his first wife. (Wonder what Broadsheet would say about that.)
A closet case
If drugs, violence, and lies are sexy, I guess Salon nailed it.
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Attack on Marriage
[Read the article: Brian Williams: "Marriage is under attack"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's probably on a GLBT site, because they have become adept at recognizing Focus-on-the-family-speak that pervades right-wing radio and television. Some of the one that have been mentioned here:
Marriage is under attack = gays and lesbians shouldn't be allowed to marry
Christmas is under attack = our holidays are too secular
I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ = I am one of you.
This shorthand is used over and over without facts or figures, but it serves as a way to reinforce their beliefs with their followers.
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"Pro-life"
[Read the article: Are you there, God? It's me, Rudy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Tobin's pro-life comments would by nature also mean that the church has strong anti-death penalty and anti-war stances. However, I don't see any of that in their positions. Rudy is one of the most military might-minded of the 2008 crowd, and they don't seem to mind that at all.
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Immature Arguments
[Read the article: Your cheating stars]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a teacher I hear the exact same argument all the time. "Everyone else is doing it. Why do I get punished for it?"
As I point out, if you are driving 90 on the highway and everyone else is too, you're just as guilty and the police don't care what everyone else was doing -- you're guilty of speeding.
Perhaps Bonds was visible because he made himself that way. He didn't try to fly under the radar. He tried to fashion himself as an old-fashioned slugger and home-run king. Lots of press, lots of self-promotion.
Not everything is about race, and yet Joan keeps playing that one note. At least African-Americans are allowed to play -- how many openly gay players are there?
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Clarence Thomas is not a sellout
[Read the article: Clarence Thomas is not a sellout]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would have used the word hypocrite.
He benefitted from affirmative action and then says it's not needed.
He made use of miscegenation laws and then votes against gay marriage, insisting that the court *does* have a right to look in your bedroom.
Do as I say and not as I do.. Hypocrite.
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Biased
[Read the article: MoveOn endorses Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I tried to vote in the MoveOn poll yesterday. However, they only gave you 2 choices, Clinton or Obama. There was no way to indicate that you didn't want them to endorse either candidate or that you weren't impressed with either candidate. You had to vote for 1 of the 2 in order to leave a comment or say anything else.
This type of survey makes it very clear that MoveOn wanted to endorse 1 of the 2 candidates.
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inkredulous
[Read the article: Mitt Romney's Mormon detour]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Romney's faith does impact others, and I do feel its fair game for the media. The Church of the LDS has been instrumental in many of the anti-gay policies around the country, starting, but not ending with the Boy Scouts' recent discrimination against gays. Hinckley was very involved in that movement, and therefore it is political. A funeral is also a time to reflect on the life of the person who is gone, and in this case, it is a political event, seeing as how he involved the church in politics.
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Homophobia
[Read the article: A gay-marriage anniversary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gavin Newsom did not make those constitutional travesties pass in states like Ohio. Even if Newsom never existed, the right-wing extreme groups like CCCV and people like Tom Brinkman would still be around Ohio trying to demonize gays. Homophobia cost Kerry this state, but its roots are far deeper than what goes on in SF, CA.
Blaming Newsom might feel good, but it doesn't match the facts.
Plus no one has commented on BO's comments that civil unions and marriage are the same thing. If they are, why don't heterosexuals get them? Probably the same reason that whites didn't drink out of the blacks only fountain or sit at the back of the bus.
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Voting for Bill
[Read the article: McCain: Reformer or phony?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's not forget that McCain voted guilty in the Senate during the Clinton impeachment. Hypocrisy is always a story, as it was with Newt, Henry Hyde, etal.
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Misconceptions
[Read the article: The gay marriage slump]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The author wants to combine too many things into the category of "gay marriage", but that just doesn't work. MA is the only state to recognize gay marriage. Period. There are states with civil unions and then others with RDPs. Some allow you to move, others do not.
The article was very short on facts, just 1-2 gay people interviewed and lots of lawyers.
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It will be up to future administrations
[Read the article: George Bush told the truth yesterday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to uncover what happened when Bush was in the White House, just like it took decades to uncover all the crimes of Joseph Stalin.
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Just say no
[Read the article: I'm a condo parking-spot hoarder!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was in a similar situation this winter, and told the other condo dweller "no." It was not taken well, and now I frequently get her yelling at me out of her window. It's just a pleasure sometimes to live so close to your neighbors.
We're looking at houses now.