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...interview in TIME two weeks ago, Laura Schlessinger spoke out about her reactions to many gays' and lesbians' negative response to her. I was fascinated by how she saw her own reflection in the mirror she has held up to the lesbian and gay community for more than a year. She claims that her image has been distorted; ironically, that's the same claim we have been making about what she has done to our image. The distinction, then, must lie in who holds the mirror and at what angle. Here...
...When Laura and I met last year, I believe that we both were optimistic that we could either change the other's mind or at least find a common ground about her opinions regarding homosexuality. We could not. By now I think most people reading this have had some exposure to the controversy over her use of such terms as "biological error," "dysfunction" and "disorder" to describe lesbians and gays. Here's why such descriptive words bother us so much...
...Laura plays fast and loose with pseudoclinical rhetoric and nonempirical statistics (mostly from political rather than credible medical sources) to portray lesbians and gays as, well, "biological errors." The fact that she is not medically qualified to make such claims is dodged by her "deeply felt religious perspectives." She not only seems unable to choose whether to espouse science or faith but also mixes an indefensible concoction of both and passes it off as truth...
...Laura has "cried more at times than I would like to admit" in response to lesbians' and gays' speaking out against her, she has nothing on the misery she has caused us with her virulent and prejudicial denouncements. For a woman who claims to be all about the family, has she considered how many families with lesbian and gay members she has torn apart with her destructive words...
...Laura can dry her eyes anytime she wants, just by telling the truth...