One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[delwynmarch]

susanmcgee wrote:
> Well, it would be nice if someone would 
> address me directly, but I guess that people 
> who are abnormal and who have chosen a sinful 
> lifestyle don't deserve simple courtesy.

Del replies:
Of all people involved in this conversation, you 
are the last one who should try and play that card, 
since you did exactly that to me, and I wasn't 
even participating on OTC at the time, so you can't 
even pretend that you thought I would read it anyway.

> I'm trying to make the point that we are 
> dealing with real peoples' lives here, 

Yes we are. I'm real, my beliefs are real, my 
relationship with God is real, my efforts to 
show compassion to everyone, including gays 
and lesbians, is real. And for you to talk as 
if all of this weren't real, yes, it does hurt.

> Everyone IS entitled to their opinion. My 
> opinion is that the type of nonsense that is 
> being spouted by people about lesbians and 
> gay men is based in bigotry and ignorance.

Funny you should say that, since you never 
bothered to ask ME *WHY* I am not fully 
accepting of homosexuality. You just assumed 
you knew, or something, I guess?

> Someone might want to take a look at the 
> scientific research about "changing" someone's 
> sexual orientation. Or at the research that 
> is finding that children of lesbians and gay 
> men do just as well emotionally as the 
> children of heterosexuals.
> 
> Otherwise, a poor young kid who is gay or 
> who is a lesbian is going to read this stuff, 
> and say (gosh, I don't want to live a life 
> where everyone thinks I'm abnormal and immoral, 
> maybe I can change?) or worse yet, thinks about 
> killing themselves because they can't imagine 
> leading a happy or normal life.

What about being told that you should change 
your beliefs? What about growing up in a world 
that ridicules your beliefs? What about thinking 
that maybe one will have to deny what they believe 
in order to be able to live a normal life? What do 
YOU know about that?

> It really seems as if people would like me to be 
> silent. 

Correction: YOU are the one who has been wishing 
for other people to stop saying what they think.

> It seems to me that it's okay for YOU to have 
> YOUR opinions about the abnormality and immorality 
> of "homosexuality" but it's not okay for me 
> to have MY opinions about injustice and intolerance.

I'm not saying that you can't have your own opinions 
of injustice and intolerance. I'm just saying that you 
are just as intolerant as you claim me to be, for 
example. My opinion, you know.

Del