First, I would like to greatly and sincerely thank Ben "Mouse" McShane for his very supportive column on Feb. 25 regarding gay marriage. It's much harder to support the "underdog" in a controversial topic than it is to help add to the negativity.
This brings me to Jeff Nicoson's column on Tuesday. We live in Indiana. How much support do the Conservatives really need? They have controlled this state as long as I've lived here, and their views make it uncomfortable for many minorities to live here, whether it's from their "hue" or their sexual orientation. Nicoson states that the Conservatives "don't hate the poor... they're just pro-business." So, I guess that if you don't have a business of your own, your status in the community doesn't really count? Or does it just mean that if you don't have your own business, you don't need any extra money for your family? This seems to need a little clarification.
Next, how do you (Jeff) know whether all the Conservatives are quite Libertarian when it comes to bedroom issues? Have you been invited to several Conservative-hosted orgies? I certainly don't know anyone who has. As a matter of fact, the gay community is sometimes colored as "it's all about sex." I would have to certainly speak up on that and say that sure isn't true! If it were, maybe I would have been invited to several Liberal-hosted orgies. You continue to say Conservatives aren't "anti-gay ... just pro-family." So that must mean that you only know what a family is if you are intimate with the opposite sex. Well, that can't be true because then gay people apparently weren't raised by a family, or they wouldn't know what a family is. Or is it that if you are intimate with the same sex, you don't know how to dress a child for school or pick a child up from soccer practice or tuck in your child and read him or her a bedtime story. Is that how it works?
There are so many examples of heterosexual couples that are negligent of their children or abusive of their children that saying "pro-family" is just a load of crap. A really big load of crap, actually.
Did you know that when some gay people first meet, they ask, "Are you family?" Do you think the song "We Are Family" is an anthem to the gay community by accident? The gay community is very dedicated to family. Just because a child is being primarily raised by two women or two men doesn't mean there is no influence missing from the "missing" parent. In other words, if two women are raising a boy, the boy will probably get plenty of male attention from a grandfather, brother, uncle, godfather, etc. Maybe the biological father is actually involved, but is referred to as an uncle or just a close friend of the family.
If the Conservatives are going to be so "pro-family," they should probably make sure they know what a family is. I'm not anti-Conservative, I'm just pro-open-minded, loving people.
Billie Laverghetta
Student-senior
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