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Editor’s word: Oct. 13, 2010

October is LGBTQ Pride Month, so we at the Journal are extremely confused as to why such negative news has been affecting the gay community lately. This is supposed to be a month of celebrating diversity and aspiring for equality, but recent events have seemed to diminish both of those intentions.

Let’s consider those who are desperately trying to push the Gay Rights Movement backward. There are the straight-up haters of all that is different. They call themselves conservative, but in reality, they’re no better than the worst of all bigots – the kind of people who would make Hitler proud and giggly.

There are also the hypocrites who preach equal rights for all, but really only mean for some. These are people who pledge their allegiance to a nation supposedly filled with liberty and justice for all. Again, this is another fallacy when considering that the U.S. government does not actually support equal rights for all (see Prop 8 and “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”).

News regarding anti-gay action and slander has been particularly disconcerting. First, we received news of three gay young men being brutally tortured in the Bronx for no apparent reason, and that was enough to make one question the goodness of humanity. Eight suspects have been tied to the horrendous torturing of these unfortunate men who endured unimaginable treatment for hours in an abandoned building.

Next, we received news of a public figure, a gubernatorial candidate at that, speaking out against homosexuality. Yep, it was “Crazy Carl” Paladino running his filthy mouth yet again, only this time it was against a group that was completely undeserving of his prejudicial remarks. He claimed that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking it is okay to be gay because homosexuality is not an equally valid and successful option. Hence, Paladino is disgusting and absolutely unfit to govern New York – one of the most proudly diverse states in the Union.

Well, Carl, we’re mad now, too. Enough is enough. This staff editorial is a call to end all of the nonsense that comes with intolerance and begin an era true acceptance.

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    PubliusOct 13, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    This article found me with particular unease. I would imagine the love of Democracy, through an extreme liberal scope, governed the writing of this article. Carl Paladino being “disgusting and absolutely unfit to govern New York” defeats our societal and political views in favor of a more single tracked ideology. Adolf Hitler would indeed be proud of the ultra-conservative and anti-gay bigots as he would you. Ignorance lies on both side of the political aisle. Furthermore, you address a radical fraction of the conservative population as bigots. This is not dissimilar from considering a pro-gay liberal to be a closet homosexual who harbors illegal immigrants with whom they smoke pot.

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