Radio personality's apology hollow

Dear Dr. Laura:

I read your apology to gays and lesbians in Daily Variety for your "poorly chosen" remarks about homosexuality on your national radio program.

But I cannot accept it.

This is so clearly an attempt to foster a better relationship with the gay community for the purpose of profit. The only thing more disgusting is your use of an important Jewish holiday as an excuse.

Only after your national sponsors dropped you like a hot rock as a result of the gay community's efforts to inform them of your rhetoric did you try to explain. There is no more sincerity in this apology than there was in any of your numerous attempts to reconcile yourself. After every attempt at an apology, you persisted in stating your damaging position on homosexuality to the American public.

I am writing this letter on behalf of the incredible number of gays and lesbians who have been attacked or killed since you started this broadcast of ignorance. When you describe them as "biological errors," or "deviants," you justify the actions of those who seek to hurt them.

I hold you and everyone else who makes similar statements in the public arena partly responsible for the ongoing assault on gay Americans.

I understand that homosexuality goes against your newfound pledge to Orthodox Judaism. I do not begrudge you for having religious convictions. But when those convictions translate into the physical harm of innocent people, your religion ceases to be acceptable.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gendered people are innocent. The only thing they have done is to go against religious scriptures. The same outdated scriptures that advocate the sale of one's daughters and the murder of neighboring countrymen.

I know that you are a doctor of physiology, but I wonder how you arrived at the conclusion that I am a biological error.

I am happy. I am in a long-term, loving relationship. I support myself and contribute to society. I love and support my family and I have friends who love and support me. I do not break laws and I do not harm other people.

I am as natural, normal and happy as any heterosexual person I have ever met.

Yes, it is true; I do not have children. But how can you say that is not part of nature's plan? How is it, exactly, that I am an error?

I stand by my fellow "deviants" in rejection of your hollow apology. Your type of insincerity and hate does a lot more to damage our society than any deviancy from the "norm" could ever do.

Sincerely,
John Caldwell

John Caldwell is a print journalism major at Cal State Long Beach

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