LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

Based on the letter to the editor published in the July 19th edition of the Citizen and penned by the esteemed Chris Christensen, I see that bigotry is still alive and well in Colorado County. Ordinarily this is where I would shred Mr. Christensen’s arguments with actual facts however his entire point seems to be this: God hates fags and therefore civil government shouldn’t recognize Pride month. Setting aside the fact that on one hand he says it’s nobody’s business what people do in their own homes, then proceeds to make it his business to denounce their behavior, I would like point out a few things to Mr. Christensen and his ilk.

Pride month began as a way to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The irony is that Mr. Christensen wants to keep people’s behavior private and government out of people’s lives yet it was the very nature of this policy that led to the modern Pride movement. The government DIDN’T stay out of people’s lives because of people like him who found their behavior, let me make sure I get this right, “immoral sexual” (whatever that is) and “abnormal behavior”.