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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Another (?) cat, and a link to a column

Make that three cats, a turtle, a frog, and two fish. My wife's Aunt is in a nursing home recovering from an illness, and so we've agreed to watch her cat (our old cat Gizmo) for a few weeks.

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Anyway, here's a link to a column I wrote for the Journal-Sentinel last week. It's on gay marriage, and so will no doubt pi** someone off. So be it. I have no hate in my heart - but the same doesn't appear to be the case for some folks on the other side of the issue.

I'd kept it on the hush-hush rather than risk an argument at work, as I try not to sh*t where I eat. But tonight the cat was let out of the bag and a (civil) debate occurred with a transgender co-worker, so I guess there's no longer a reason to keep mum.

"Circumventing the Electorate"

As always, columns read better in the format they were designed for, the printed page (they really do, it's odd). In this case my picture and column were plop in the center of the page, next to a large graphic, so it was kind of hard to miss.

In response I got a few letters of agreement, some that were against my view but civil, and some absolute crap. I received two pieces I'd describe as hate mail: one today that called me names and wished me ill, and another last week that called me names and then oddly, given that it was in opposition to my views, ended with links to gay porn. I suppose that last bit was sent to scare my "phobic" self. What an as*hole.

Anyhow, I hope you at least find it readable.

6 comments:

Sybil said...

Hi Dan, just read the article and I ( for wat it's worth) think it was an excellently written piece.....My sentiments exactly..
how many animlas are you going to end up with. ever thought of opening a "home Zoo" LOL
Love Sybil xx

Beth said...

You've probably guessed that I'm a proponent of gay marriage. I appreciate that your column didn't get nasty with the morality stuff. As we all know, there are jerks on both sides of the fence, so it was inevitable that you'd hear from some of them.

Ken Riches said...

Brave to include your e-mail on the article, hope that does not become to bothersome.

jeanne said...

I loved the article and I feel it was well written. I'm in favor of civil union, but it was voted down, I don't feel that the state should have done the register. What were they thinking.

Slapinions said...

Amy S - I'm assuming it was your column in Friday's paper that set them off, which was very good by the way. You need to learn to expect emotional, rather than logical responses from liberals.
Wed at 9:42am ·

Slapinions said...

From Facebook: Curry = Hey now, not always, you just have to expect people who are going to respond to a column are the ones who are emontional and therefore are the ones who tend to write the horrible things that you got. Sorry you got the hate mail.