Here's a Flint Journal letter to the editor for April 29, 2009:
It takes a stretch of imagination to make the illogical conclusion that expanding rights in the United States to include all Americans, including homosexuals, is going to lead to a law that prescribes prison time for those who make fun of gay people ["Christians must keep soldiering on vs. courts, media," John Tomlinson, Opinion, April 19].
Then again, the paranoia the right has shown against laws protecting homosexuals requires such an imagination -- and a giant gap in logic. Same-sex marriage opponents have been saying for years that granting homosexual couples the right to marriage would destroy the institution, yet nobody can explain how the private activities of a couple, any couple, affects my marriage.
I don't care if Tomlinson doesn't like homosexuals. What I object to is how members of the religious right, who live in the most free nation in the world, complain about being persecuted because our elected government won't impose their specific denomination's viewpoint upon the nation.
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