A friend sent me the link to this. Someone has their bowels in an uproar over the wedding listing that was in the paper a few weeks ago.
Imagine my surprise when I scanned the wedding announcements (Erie Times-News, Oct. 26) and felt compassion for the woman who had no hair, probably because of chemo treatments.
See! He just told us how compassionate he was. Which certainly beats having to behave in that way.
But wait! It is a wedding announcement of two men, married in California and living in Manhattan. This only tries to normalize an abnormal practice and behavior.
You boil a frog by raising the temp one degree at a time and, before he realizes it, he is cooked.
I am unclear here. Is this guy thinking that he will turn gay by reading an announcement in the paper for 2 people he has never met. Is he THAT impressionable? For public safety, should he not watch any murder mysteries?
Thanks anyway for the cooking tip! The next time I find I want to make Grenouille Provencal, I will definitely keep this in mind.
I am sure this announcement was sent to many papers as a deliberate act.
As opposed to all of those wedding announcements that are randomly sent out, of course! Are the ones for straight couples some kind of insidious campaign to promote penile-vaginal intercourse? If he had bothered to read the announcement, he would have noticed that one of the mothers of the couple was from Erie, so there was indeed a familial connection to the area.
Literacy. It's a good thing.
The gay and lesbian community has every right to practice its private behavior, its civil unions and relationships, but please don't announce it as "normal" and part of my everyday life.
Greg Tower
Fairview
Um no, it's part of their everyday life and of those people who know and love them. Why is Greg trying to make this all about him? When I read the announcements in today's paper for straight couples, I didn't see them as some kind of grandstanding appeal for my personal involvement. Two people were simply celebrating an important milestone in their lives. Those that know them can share in their joy and those who don't can simply blip on by. How arrogant and self-centered to think that everything is about oneself!
I was so mad when I read his comments this morning. You've said exactly most of what I was thinking in your blog. Why, I wonder, if he thought it was woman going through chemo, and therefore had compassion for"her"
Why then when he realized that it was two gay men (one bald) did he not question that maybe the bald man was also going through chemo for cancer? I don't think this is the case, but it seems that his compassion has a limit to its concerns! And for him, I guess the gay card trumps the cancer card in his doling out of compassion. And the comment about how the announcement was probably planted throughout newspapers across the country to wedge our way into normalcy "degree by degree" was way out of line. Apparently, like you said, he didn't take the time to read further and see that one of the couples parents lives in Erie. I wonder whether that parent felt compassion for Greg Tower when he read his letter?