Reply #72: That's what I've found, too [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

When the Oregon Citizens' Alliance attempted to pass its first anti-gay initiative, I tried to honor my various gay and lesbian friends past and present by working against it.

I'd go right up and confront OCA reps who were handing out literature. The men would get all fuming and irrational, but the women were at least willing to consider my arguments. A lot of them were in the anti-gay movement because they had been told that all gays and lesbians were out to molest children.

Then I'd tell them about the heterosexual music teacher in my old school system who seduced girls ages 12 to 16 over a period of twenty years before he was finally fired. Was that okay?

They'd agree that it wasn't.

"So," I'd say, "maybe heterosexuals shouldn't teach school either. Maybe only eunuchs should teach school?"

That always got a laugh, and I hope I made them think. But I couldn't even talk to the men, because they'd start ranting.