Note to Andrew Sullivan: Don’t Blame Breitbart For My Thought Crimes
by Charles WinecoffDear Andrew Sullivan,
Thank you for your Halloween Daily Dish in response to my Big Hollywood blog about the latest LGBT assault on Mormons. We actually met once, briefly, at DC Pride, circa 1990. I had never heard of you or The New Republic. I do remember liking your accent.
More recently, about five years ago, I shot you an email to say thanks for a column you’d written about the threat of Islam to gays. You sent a nice thank you back. I’ve also admired your calling the hate crimes bill “boutique legislation” and urging your readers to stop sending checks to the Human Rights Campaign.
I appreciate the restraint of your posting, “A Gay Voice Against Marriage Equality,” though the title concerns me a little, as the last thing I want is for LGBTers to assume I am some kind of Anita Bryant (she was very active when I was coming out, and we don’t need a repeat of that). Few things are as terrifying as the thought of becoming the object of gay fury (which I understand you’ve had some experience with). It’s a sorry state of affairs when people within the gay community no longer feel they can speak freely without risking ostracism or threats. I sometimes wonder if there should be a hate crimes bill to protect gay people from other gay people.
That said, there are a couple of points in your piece I’d like to address.
First, one does not have to ”search high and low” to find lesbians and gays who are suspicious of the cause formerly known as same-sex marriage. Contrary to popular mythology, not all of us feel a pressing need for “marriage equality,” nor do we derive our self-worth from the state. I know gay Californians who voted for Prop 8 last year because they sincerely believe it is in the best interest of children (some of whom will grow up to be gay), and of society as a whole (which includes gay people), to uphold the ideal of the man-woman nuclear family. (more…)
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