Dear Lyle Carbert,
Out of respect for people who belong to the LGBTQ community and who I know and work with personally, I feel I have an obligation to take a stance on this topic.
In your letter to the editor of May 5 you declare great compassion and love for people of a different sexual orientation but I cannot find any in your self-righteous diatribe. According to your own words, you hold the truth and nothing but the truth on the subject of LGBTQ, and you certainly, very bravely, publicized your take on it. Indeed, how dare The Eagle give front-page promotion to this lie that affects society? You do realize that is what a newspaper does? It reports, without bias, items that concern society.
You could avoid a lot of heartache and hate by accepting people for who they are. I dare say that not one person ever woke up one morning declaring themselves gay, lesbian or whatever, from that day onward. Why? Because, thanks to opinions like yours, even in this day and age their lives and paths are painfully thorny ones that no one would want to walk voluntarily. What exactly is it that gay, lesbian etc. people do to impact your vision of society? Not once in all my six decades of living have I felt negatively impacted by a person belonging to the LGBTQ community. After all, they are not exactly standing on the street corner preaching their brand of sexuality, do they? By allowing people of a different sexual orientation to integrate into the mainstream of society with all rights and duties, there would be no need any longer for gay parades, the rainbow flag - or this discussion.
If I were to pray for wisdom, Lyle, it would be for the self-righteous to lose their blinders.
In case you wonder, I am a 64 year-old, straight‚ mother of three with straight adult children, and a grandmother of six. By the way, no degree of homosexuality could ever have moved me to love my children less.
Marlis McDouall
