This is homophoburbia

~sigh... a Letter-to-the-Editor in yesterday's East Jesus newspaper.

Bad values
The East Jesus City Council made the right decision when they refused to add sexual orientation to the city’s anti- discrimination policies. What does sexual orientation mean anyway? Is pedophilia an orientation? How about bestiality or other sexual perversions?

Some consider the word “perversion” itself a bigoted expression even if speaking about a pedophile. And before you say that pedophilia is different because it does not involve consenting adults, how about polygamy or an incestuous relationship between consenting brother and sister? (At least with a brother and sister, sex is between one man and one woman!)

The same thought process that advocates protection of one’s sexual orientation also compels us to protect one’s gender expression.

In other words, when a cross-dresser wants to become a kindergarten teacher at East Jesus Elementary, the school will not be allowed to discriminate against him just because he likes to wear a dress. If he were your child’s kindergarten teacher, don’t expect the school to allow you to change classes strictly on your own bigoted views.

If we group sexual orientation into the same category as race, then that is exactly what will result.

These might be San Francisco values, but at least for now they are not East Jesus values. I hope they never are.

S. TSCHETTER,
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