By Michael Miner
Bowles reasoned, “The issue of homosexual marriage involves a great deal more than ‘live and let live’ tolerance for that which is different. It opens doors that are best left closed. What will we say to the bisexual who demands the right to marry the man and woman of his choice? What will we say to the pedophile who swears he never chose to be what he is?
Thomson went on, “Your paragraph concerning psychological research on the subject of homosexuality is grandiose in its generality. The assertion that, ‘the case has not been made that a homosexual is anything other than a misdirected male or disoriented female’ is unsupported, and how can we debate your premise if you do not provide your supported documentation and you require gay people to prove a double negative. Similarly, your dismissal of the genetic studies about sexual orientation with the cavalier and again unsupported assertion that they ‘do not stand up to the most casual and perfunctory examination by anyone familiar with experimental methodology’ does not in any way advance a meaningful debate on the issue.
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If she’d wanted to suck all the air out of him she succeeded. “I would have accepted virtually any other response from her but that,” Thomson told me. “No response would have been better. A form letter saying ‘I disagree with you’ would have been better. ‘I disagree with you, fucking faggot’ would have been better.
Bitter Pill
“The Headline Club has defamed me before an audience of my peers,” Bolsen wrote Ed Avis, president of the Chicago Headline Club, after stewing for a weekend. (The Headline Club sponsors the annual Lisagor awards.) “I want to make it clear that I am objecting in the strongest possible terms to the process used by the awards committee. My professional reputation, the reputation of my newspaper, and the reputation of every one of my staff members was on the line…. Surely, the fact that Mr. Meyer was actively campaigning for this award should have raised suspicions. I don’t think the extent of checking done on Mr. Meyer’s attractively packaged ‘David-vs.-Goliath’ story would have passed muster in most newsrooms in America. As a result, I believe the committee was taken for a ride.”
