Letters to the Editor
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Actually, so long as our society promotes homophobia, the closets will be crowded
I'm sure much can be said as to the psychological causes for men like this to act so vehemently towards gays while being closeted homosexuals themselves. There is an undeniable pattern in this kind of behavior. I'll leave it to a professional therapist to decide why a person would be drawn to such masochistic rhetoric.
Ultimately though, I have to be able to look at the society we live in as a whole, and it's deep and strong tradition and undercurrent of bigotry and hostility toward gays and lesbians.
It is unconscionable that we allow such bigotry to fester and thrive in 21st Century America. If we as a society (especially in politics) would stop using sexual orientation as a political and social football, we will move toward a society that is accepting of all of its members.
I dream of an America where the closet door need no longer exist- for all Americans, regardless of political belief. Life is difficult enough without people having to go through such intense distortions and double-lives. We as a society need to shake loose of that vestigial bigotry that has constrained us for so long.