Dear Editor,
I have a couple questions for Mr. VerStandig arising from his “Gay-marriage advocates make case for incest?” Where, Mr. VerStandig, do you get this stuff?
Does your priest or minister feed it to you from the pulpit, right along with your communion wafer?
I have to confess that, among my gay acquaintances, I don’t know a single one who wants to marry his or her sibling or parent. Not even any of my straight acquaintances have expressed such a desire. Since you seem to insist that gay-marriage advocates are making a case for incest, my circle of acquaintances must be too small, then.
Perhaps a little factual information regarding legislation, morality and marriage is in order, Mr. VerStandig.
The state with the lowest divorce rate? Massachusetts. Followed by eight other “blue” states.
Excepting Nevada, the highest divorce rates are found in 10 “bible belt” “red” states. Divorce laws, are, after all, a legislative cave-in in the fight for moral legislation.
Moreover, in writing this column, Mr. VerStandig, you have failed your constituency; you left out at least half of the standard boiler-plate anti-gay marriage litany: pedophilia and polygamy. Not to mention intra-species and extra-species marriage.
I confess, I have no interest in marrying an orangutan, but I am in love with my butch little Ford Ranger 4×4 and I do hope someday soon that I can run off to Massachusetts with it and get married; my Ranger, after all, has never let me down, unlike most of the men I’ve dated.
I can only hope that you were attempting humor in writing this column; but if you were, Mr. VerStandig, you failed, just as I did in the previous paragraph; at worst, you insult and abuse survivors of incest and perpetuate inflammatory anti-gay sentiment — the kind which results, daily, in LGBT people being attacked and killed for simply being LGBT.
If you were actually attempting to be serious and make an intellectual argument, you still failed; at best, you’re abusing your major by spewing irrational and illogical, unsupportable rhetoric.
Unless that’s what they’re teaching rhetoric majors these days.
Eric W. Trekell, Director
LGBT Campus Center
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