Disgusting Anti-Gay 'Guest Column' in the Des Moines Register

[queenursula]

Chuck Hurley's Iowa Family Policy Center is behind a disgusting "guest column" in the Des Moines Register by Karl and Judy Schowengerdt about their late son being "recruited into the homosexual lifestyle" and then dying of AIDS while the homosexuals who recruited him rejected him.

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[shuraiya]

To the Schowengerdts: I'm very sorry for the loss of your son but it's bigotry like yours which prevented the U.S. Government from recognizing AIDS and taking steps to curb it until far too late. No doubt your bigotry also prevented your own son from accepting who God made him. A very sad tale indeed.

This. :(

[draperyfalls]

Damn that National Gay & Lesbian Recruitment Task Force!

[einaphets]

Bwahahaha!!!

[thedisassociate]

For the Iowa Supreme Court to sanction homosexual "marriage" is to encourage and underwrite the negative results that naturally come from the homosexual "lifestyle."

I'm twenty years old and I have been "caught up in the homosexual lifestyle" (as they put it) for oh, say, all of those twenty years. The only natural results that have come from my gayness are the bigotry and discrimination I get from straight folks.

edited because my keyboard is evil

[lostwiginity]

Come on, not all straight folks are like that!

[thedisassociate]

Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that all straight folks are like that. I just meant that the majority of the the negative results of my gayness have been from the portion of the straight folks that are like that. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[shizumaslover]

And, sadly, not all gay people aren't like that. Biphobia, transphobia, etc. That bigotry and discrimination bridges the sexuality divide. 8(

[apocalypsos]

Just from reading what's quoted right there, if the gay people their son knew weren't simply jerks (which is definitely likely, of course, every group has its jerks), then I can't imagine it would be appealing to support through an illness anyone who decides your sexuality is a cult and his parents who think you recruited their kid into it. You'd have to have an incredibly solid friendship with someone to put up with their understandable bitterness and anger while dying AND their parents behaving like bigots.

[benjersthefish]

Of course not. well, straight, white people don't get HIV.

[ojuzu]

Straight, white male people.

[misatojaganshi]

that was one of the first questions that came to mind, it seems like they only equate AIDS with homosexuality when that is really not the case. a lot of straight black women are contracting HIV too, and the evil gay cult isn't recruiting them and infecting them @.@;