By Bill Maxwell
St. Petersburg Times/TampaBay.com
I predict that one day in the distant future, the clarity of biology, along with the old standby common sense, will irrefutably demonstrate that homosexuality is as normal as heterosexuality.
That clarity will give us reason to look back on homophobia and wonder how on earth anyone, even right-wing politicians such as Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair, ever believed that an omniscient and omnipotent God would have created a group of people to be despised, denigrated and killed because of their sexual orientation.
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A few days ago, according to the St. Petersburg Times, Blair sent a mass e-mail to "friends" asking them to protest the annual "Day of Silence" to be held at several area schools on April 25. The observance, which is not school-sponsored, urges students to make a pledge of silence and to distribute cards explaining their reason for remaining silent.
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Blair and the [Amerian Family Association] are promoting several distortions of the truth, if not outright lies. First, "Day of Silence" is not "government sanction and support" to promote anything, and, second, these students are not out "to promote their social and sexual agenda upon" anyone. They are merely asserting their right to memorialize another kid who was murdered in school for being who he was, and they are asking the rest of us to respect their right to be left alone, to live as they wish.
Read the whole column here:
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article450085.ece
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