Letter: Misguided audacity thwarts equal rights
Regarding the Feb. 19 letter to the editor “Beware politically correct censorship,” Yes on 8 campaigner Buck Weckman has opined inflammatory anti-gay statements in Yuba-Sutter for years.
He’s no censorship victim.
Instead, Weckman wants to dictate how people react while reducing the opposing views to “politically correct censorship.” When one opines anything, all’s fair how people react.
In reality, Weckman’s exercise of his freedoms cost me my freedom to marry.
However, proponents of equality (gay and straight) will not simply concede to our anti-gay, self-righteous opponents, especially considering how so many heterosexuals have sex before marriage, get divorced, watch adult videos (the list goes on) meanwhile tolerating less and less legal restriction on their heterosexual behavior.
This is not to suggest that two wrongs make a right.
Homosexuality is only wrong to those choosing to subscribe to anti-gay religious and/or supremacist views that is it.
Instead, I’m suggesting these anti-gay heterosexuals have no authority, no credibility, and all the misguided audacity in the world to try to prohibit consenting gay adults from equal rights.
Incidentally, last time I knew of anything regarding “politically correct censorship,” it was in response to Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church – the group known for anti-gay demonstrations at soldiers’ funerals.
In California, in 2006, a bill was introduced to outlaw picketing at certain times near a funeral and violators would be fined and/or go to jail.
The bill was sponsored by anti-gay Republican Rick Keene.
President Bush signed a similar law regarding national cemeteries that year.
Jeffrey Girard
Concord
