Dear representative Sally Kern
My name is Danilo Goldfarb. I live in San Diego. I go to High Tech Middle Media Arts. This is a charter school designed to teach students in new ways that involves creativity, art, environmental science and much more. I respect how you have devoted your life to being a state representative and trying to better the United States. I am writing to you concerning your views on Homosexuality expressed in your speech to your colleagues.
There are a few things that bother me about that speech. This letter will cover most of the issues. The two main issues are how your speech may affect the number of hate crimes in the world and the factuality of some of the things you said.
You said that this speech puts you in jeopardy but is free speech. It makes my heart drop when you say it puts you in jeopardy because it puts homosexuals in jeopardy much more than you. Many people have been murdered recently for being gay. Saying things like this promotes this type of violence even though you did not make any comment suggesting that you support this. But this does give them a reason to think what they did was right. 10 years ago Mathew Shepard a young teen was beaten until he died for being gay. For recently Lawrence King an 8th grader was shot down by one of his fellow students. I do not blame the kid who killed him but both his parents and people who say things like what you said. But its not only the hate in this speech that made me feel so terrible is also the ignorance that is going around that this speech is a great example of. I am in a GSA (a gay straight alliance), have a lesbian mom, have had gay teachers and gay friends and I am still straight. Also the comment about suicide was one of the most offensive parts because they feel so tormented by things people say and things people do. This discrimination causes them to resort to suicide. You also said that no civilizations that fully have fully embraced homosexuality have not survived more than a few decades; this is not a true fact. Greece did fully embrace gays. They lasted much more than a few decades. It is true that if everyone was gay our population would decrease but the amount of gay people will not increase because on person is gay. The amount of gay people who are gay stays about the same. Studies prove that gayness is not contagious and is not passed down thru families. When you say gays are invading that is saying they don’t have rights to have jobs. You also say that they are telling children that being gay is an acceptable life style and that its not. If you think your speech was free speech then there speech is free speech too. Also if a lot of your opinions are based on your religion then are you truly following separation of church and state? In my opinion everything about this speech was very offensive. I would be very happy if you could apologize and re-think some of you opinions. Thank you for reading.
Sincerely Danilo Goldfarb
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2 comments:
Wow Nilo, this letter is really heartfelt. Great points about what causes people to be gay and how her speech puts homosexuals in more jeopardy than herself.
A couple of questions:
Beyond apologizing, what else would you like Sally Kern to do to right the wrong that's been done?
Maybe share what you learned during Intercession at the GLBU Center in Hillcrest?
Divide this up in distinct paragraphs to organize your thoughts. :)
Put paragraphs.
spell check!
otherwise right on the money.
wow nilo you are the poison in my rats and the garlic on my pop corn.
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