Pastor Lyle Carbert’s June 23 letter to the editor, Pastor responds to critics of LGBTQ letter, made me want to weep.
His letter was in response to critics of his May 5 letter in which he accused the Cochrane Eagle of supporting the “lie” about the LGBTQ community in its informative April 25 article, "Why can't we be part of the normal?"
In his letter last week, Pastor Carbert insists that he is a loving person and that he has “no hate in my heart for anybody” when he defends this views that “nobody was born gay.”
I’m willing to take the Pastor at his word that he has no hate in his heart, but does he not understand that his outspoken ignorance enables hatred?
Does what happened in Orlando not cause him to reflect on the link between his homophobic, religious fundamentalist views to that of the Orlando madman, Omar Mateen, and his homophobic, religious fundamentalist views?
What stops me from weeping is the fact that in my lifetime of 65 years, I’ve witnessed society in Alberta move from marginalizing the LGBTQ community to marginalizing people that share Pastor Carbert’s illogical, uniformed and hate-enabling views. If only it could happen more quickly.
Brian Malone
