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...ignore large parts of the scriptures on which their faith rests. But there are some who take them seriously. These constitute a second group that would use biblical law to build a Bridge to the 11th Century and force every man, woman and child across it. As Matthew Shepard learned, some people not only support the death penalty for gays and lesbians, but they personally carry...
What is going on? It's hard to imagine that in the U.S., the most advanced country in the world, we are still faced with heinous crimes of hate like the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the young gay man in Wyoming [NATION, Oct. 26]. We must stop killing others because they are different from us. The religious right should be embarrassed by its claims and advertisements that gays can "change" to be heterosexuals. I hope Shepard's family knows that he was not "sick" but a victim of "sick" thinkers. SAMUEL LOUIS MORRIS Greenville...
...witnessed the hate crime of the century against Jews, Gypsies, gays and others. Fifty-five years later, we have ill-disguised hatred, instigated by the religious right as well as by some of our elected representatives. How many more innocent gays and lesbians will be attacked, as was Shepard? Sign me Jewish, gay and proud of it. GERALD B. ROSENSTEIN San Francisco...
...lesbian youth is three times the norm, making the quality of their young lives sadly obvious. Every year we receive tens of thousands of calls on our toll-free telephone hotline (1-888-THE-GLNH) from people who need information, peer counseling or referrals. What happened to Shepard could happen to any of us. And someday it might. BRAD BECKER, Executive Director Gay and Lesbian National Hotline San Francisco...
Publications from The Crimson--"We have reason to fear, growing homophobia from coast to coast"--to The New York Times, which wrote of the "menace and hatred that homosexuals still face in being honest in the United State," have followed this tack. While it is certainly just to condemn Shepard's attackers, along with any other brutes who would so grossly violate the basic respect due all people (whatever their sexual orientation), it is disingenuous to decry Americans in general as "bigots" or "homophobes," suggesting a senseless hatred of homosexuals. To do so is to assert that there...