] Via Unqualified Offerings we have this letter to the
] editor written in 2000 in response to the "pro-family"
] haters.
]
] Letter to the Editor
] by Sharon Underwood, Sunday, April 30, 2000
] from the Valley News (White River Junction, VT/Hanover,
] NH)
]
] As the mother of a gay son, I've seen firsthand how cruel
] and misguided people can be.

[ One of the best letters i've seen... well said. -k]

] If you want to tout your own morality, you'd best come up
] with something more substantive than your
] heterosexuality. You did nothing to earn it; it was given
] to you. If you disagree, I would be interested in hearing
] your story, because my own heterosexuality was a blessing
] I received with no effort whatsoever on my part. It is so
] woven into the very soul of me that nothing could ever
] change it. For those of you who reduce sexual orientation
] to a simple choice, a character issue, a bad habit or
] something that can be changed by a 10-step program, I'm
] puzzled. Are you saying that your own sexual orientation
] is nothing more than something you have chosen, that you
] could change it at will? If that's not the case, then why
] would you suggest that someone else can?

This is one of the better ways I've heard the "gay as a choice" -vs- "gay from birth" views compared.