Outsidepride.com followup
Aug. 9th, 2006 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenNow that I'm home from work I had a chance to write to the folks at Outsidepride.com, aka "I'm not a bigot but I want those fags to stop destroying America." Since I know from Stoney's LJ that most of the major points have been hit by now, I figured aim at something different.
Dear Mr. Hale,
I am one of the many people who was forwarded a copy of your Outsidepride.com newsletter regarding homosexuality on prime time television. Of the many things that you wrote, I must say this one sentence in particular stood out to me:
> There are teachers who have been asked to make sure students know that, "This person in history was a homosexual."
Really? Would these be the same teachers who have been asked to make sure students know that one plus one equals two, Canada is actually to the north of the United States, and that gravity means that things tend to fall down when we drop them? Because if so, I'd like to know where I can write to these teachers to commend them for teaching their students something we like to call "facts" which is part and parcel of why we send children to school.
Now not all facts are happy facts. The history of slavery, the Holocaust, that "E pluribus unum" was actually one of our first national mottoes and not "In God We Trust," but the facts still are what they are. We may feel about these facts what we wish--such is the joy of our country and its Bill of Rights--but if we need to change said facts in order to shore up our beliefs that says vastly more about our beliefs than it ever could about the facts themselves.
Feel free to write to CBS all you like, feel free to hate homosexuality all you like. But if your religion and spirituality can't stand up to the truth well, maybe the problem with faith and morality in this country isn't one that's found on TV.
Sincerely,
[TBQ]
Incidentally, Liz Marcs has some other links on the subject for those of you interested.
Dear Mr. Hale,
I am one of the many people who was forwarded a copy of your Outsidepride.com newsletter regarding homosexuality on prime time television. Of the many things that you wrote, I must say this one sentence in particular stood out to me:
> There are teachers who have been asked to make sure students know that, "This person in history was a homosexual."
Really? Would these be the same teachers who have been asked to make sure students know that one plus one equals two, Canada is actually to the north of the United States, and that gravity means that things tend to fall down when we drop them? Because if so, I'd like to know where I can write to these teachers to commend them for teaching their students something we like to call "facts" which is part and parcel of why we send children to school.
Now not all facts are happy facts. The history of slavery, the Holocaust, that "E pluribus unum" was actually one of our first national mottoes and not "In God We Trust," but the facts still are what they are. We may feel about these facts what we wish--such is the joy of our country and its Bill of Rights--but if we need to change said facts in order to shore up our beliefs that says vastly more about our beliefs than it ever could about the facts themselves.
Feel free to write to CBS all you like, feel free to hate homosexuality all you like. But if your religion and spirituality can't stand up to the truth well, maybe the problem with faith and morality in this country isn't one that's found on TV.
Sincerely,
[TBQ]
Incidentally, Liz Marcs has some other links on the subject for those of you interested.
