Flippy - I Rant, You Read

To the editor:

Wednesday’s letters referring to the Monday article about gay and lesbian night clubs really set us all “straight.” Why, for the Review-Journal to “advertise” alternative lifestyles, how very offensive. And to show photos of “those people” actually enjoying themselves, what garbage!

One writer said she was glad she opened the newspaper before her school-age daughter did. Goodness, the child might have learned some tolerance—she likely won’t at home.

I have always wondered why we “normal” people (well, some of us) discriminate against people who like people of their own gender. Why not include left-handed people? They’re not “normal” either, and for the same reason: they were born that way. I still remember elementary school teachers in the ‘30s who felt they had to “change” left-handed kids, even making them sit on their left hands. After all, inkwells were in the upper right corner of our desks.

But lefties make great pitchers, and are otherwise more like us, so we don’t have to bar them from marrying, or from having the same legal rights as “normal” people. Remember Richard Ziser and his Protection of Marriage campaign? I once wrote him that my marriage (now 58 years with the same woman) didn’t need his, or the Nevada Constitution’s “protection,” but we got it anyway.

But let’s not have any more horror stories about homosexuals. We must keep your readers safe from harm.