Get critical!

[humanpathos]

I need feedback by noon-ish tomorrow. I should mention this is for the Wednesday edition of The Daily Utah Chronicle, the University of Utah's student rag. They'll be doing a special issue devoted entirely to gay rights.

Comments

[glitta]

You need a slogan....

"Life, liberty,and the persuit of happiness"

Support civil unions..... Pass it on.

[glitta]

Evan I really liked it.

god damn i'm a pissy motherfuck this morning*

[jemperly]

i actually like your letter as it stands (and you've already sent it besides; i just had to heave this off my chest).

a) first and foremost, i don't think you should change anything about what you've written (except possibly a grammatical error: first sentence, join "on to" to make "onto"). i feel we certainly have the right to make suggestions or rebuttals, but to request that you actually change it... i don't know. it makes me think that you're some kind of evan clay doll for our molding. what you've written is true and brilliant from your perspective, and that's honestly all it needs to be. honestb) i don't understand what gay people raising normal children has to do with sexual abuse being predominantly perpetrated by heterosexual males. wtf, really. those are two totally different issues, and two almost disjoint cultural misconceptions. sure, one is more tame, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be disarming the other. in fact, i would probably deem it more important. perhaps a different quote or paraphrasing is in order if it

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[jemperly]

d) let's pretend for a moment that the religious right doesn't have anything to do with this...

wasn't that fun? now back in reality land, we know that marriage is a basic tenet and the fundamental building block of religion and social order as we know it. religion is heavily invested in the success of marriage as a social, economic, and philosophical structure. marriage might not even exist without religion. and if religion is threatened by the empowerment of homosexuals in its established order (which it is), what fundamental institution do you think they're going to obstruct access to first? of course, we could just look at the empirical evidence of the money and time and effort religious nuts (including our own mr. president) have invested into the wrong side of this debate. but it makes sense theoretically too! and marriage isn't the only area that religious zealots oppose the advancement of homosexuals, but it is where they get a great deal of footing