Letter to the Editor

To the editor:

It would be considered a matter of public ridicule if some of the letters to the editor from April 5 had been printed in other countries.

At Iowa State, the opposite is the case. If students used the same “analytical” skills in class that they applied to the Daily, they would encounter serious difficulties.

Aside from the fact that people like this encourage hate groups, they feel the need to shower us with their sharp insights into current media events.

Let us sum up how the authors of one letter did. “Don’t talk about it, write about it, or, above all else, jam it down our throats.” I am not sure exactly what it is that is being “jammed” down anyone’s throats, but it certainly isn’t a homosexual “agenda.”

If anything, heterosexuality is being thrust upon everyone as the ideal way to be. As a society, we are inundated with sexual images, a disproportionate amount of which is heterosexual.

Personally, I don’t have a problem with sexual images of any type regardless of whether it be human, animal, vegetable or mineral. It is shocking that someone would be so disillusioned with some aspect of their life as to say that gay imagery is being written or talked about so much.

As to Mr. Chamberlain’s strange attempt to illustrate how homosexuality is immoral, like any unsupported accusations, it falls short.

“Gays are destroying our heterosexual unions in America?” Might Mr. Chamberlain be implying that if a lesbian came up to him and his girlfriend that his girlfriend would find the lesbian a much better pick?

Perhaps he could give us a little more that might help support his claims.

Even though the Daily has faults and should perhaps cover more controversial issues such as current attacks on the First Amendment and international news, I do not agree that coverage of National Awareness Week is bad.

The rest of the year, heterosexuals get to smooch and grope all over each other in all forms of visual media, it seems not only fair, but insufficient that what has been estimated at approximately 10 percent to25 percent of the population gets a week of real attention.

Stephen MacDonell

Senior

Biochemistry and philosophy