Don’t print derogatory ‘opinions’

By Robert Bayuk, 801 N. Warren - 09/21/2008
When a patron enters the Lewis and Clark Library, peruses the bookshelves, discovers materials he or she finds offensive, wants it removed from circulation because it offends their delicate sensibilities and then wants everyone to wallow in their misery, polite society has a term for such a person: propagandist.

The Independent Record, however, has bigger fish to fry than worrying about a reprobate attempting to censor books and I will spell it out for all of you: Homosexuality is genetic and it has been proven scientifically. So the IR must now stop publishing all letters to the editor, feature articles and “Your Turn” commentaries which debase gay men and lesbian women as diseased or monsters, degenerates, or any other derogatory terminology used to cast aspersions upon them.
The IR would not publish hateful letters about someone’s skin color, eye color or genetic background. So it can now cease publishing such letters about our gay brethren and, instead, begin publishing articles about our ever-evolving humankind.