Dear Editor,
Re: “I step up for rainbows,” Voices, June 20.
I would like to respond to Eve Edmonds’ column in the Richmond News.
In regards to the LGBTQ issue and/or community, it is amazing how the mainstream media more or less never talks to the average citizen who disagrees with the LGBTQ position and then report back to the public at large why they disagree with it and/or what they do believe.
One thing for sure is that those who disagree are immediately labelled with being some kind of phobia.
A quick googling of phobia on the internet gives you this following definition “an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.”
Is this what we are like? Are we irrational? Do we have no critical thinking skills? Do we have an extreme fear or aversion to those in the LGBTQ community? Do we lock ourselves in our homes if someone who is LGBTQ crosses our path? I think not.
So stop this play on words and labelling us who disagree with LGBTQism (if that can be a new word) as if we have some kind of phobia.
Second, on the issue of what is “hatred?” Have we come to the place in Canadian society that if we disagree with something that this is immediately being “hateful” or the content of what is believed is “hatred?”
If this is so then we no longer live in a free and democratic society where freedom of speech is championed but rather one group’s/community’s (LGBTQ) intolerance of another group’s/community’s (those who disagree with LGBTQ) disagreement with them is championed.
I challenge Eve Edmonds to meet one on one, face to face with myself and my wife and have a talk with us, find out why we disagree with what the LBGBTQ community believes and find out if we have irrational fears or if we’re being hateful. If she does she not want to meet, is it because she has an anti-LGBTQ phobia?
Keith Mead
RICHMOND
Editor’s note: A meeting is currently being arranged.
