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Oh
My
God.
A friend of an LJ friend recently recieved an email from a gardening company. This is a link to the letter she recieved and response she wrote.
The Letter
I actually did leave a comment for CBS, thanking them for including the issues of homosexuality on their network. So many treat homosexuality as an issue to garner attention for whatever viewpoint they have. This leads to so many forgetting that this isn't an issue for us to decided: it is an emotional issue between two people. Its their business, not ours. Television is supposed to be an entertaining depiction, usually with some basis in the real world. Homosexuals are real, they exist. They are a part of this world, why shouldn't they be represented.
Oh, and the funny part (to me) was this guy saying "If homosexuality was the norm, civilization would have ceased to exist thousands of years ago. Procreation takes a man and a woman. " Hmm... apparently he's never heard that homosexuals are a minority. Most people are not 100% straight. Even if they never act on it, most have at least noticed the opposite sex. Okay, enough preaching. Please go back to your regularly scheduled... blogging.
Update:
I did send a letter to CBS and one to the gardening company. This is what I wrote to them:
It is the sanctimonious hypocrisy of those like yourself that have driven me away from the religion in which I was raised. I personally feel that all people should be free to pursue love, regardless of sex. Fifty years ago a kiss between two people of different races would have been seen as scandalous, an action worthy of a lynching.
If you stop and consider just how few same-sex relationships are portrayed on network television, you truly have no cause for anger. Most consider sexuality to be on a scale, with few people being perfectly straight or gay. The current percentage of the U.S. population that classifies themselves as homosexual is generally (depending on the poll), around 10-15%, excluding those that consider themselves bisexual.
You seem to feel that this display of love is uncalled for and disgraceful. You know gardening, so stick to gardening. You have every right to speak out about what you believe, but subjecting your customers religious/moral sermons isn’t one of them. Instead, consider the fact that the number of Americans who claim to be Christian decreases each year. It isn’t because of the dogma, but the arrogant words spoken by those like yourself. People like you do more for the gay rights movement than any staged kiss on a t.v. program.