Readers' forum: 'Pride' an oxymoron

Published: Thursday, June 11 2009 12:03 a.m. MDT

Summary

Using the term "pride" to describe a parade by homosexuals is an oxymoron. Can there be pride in the high rate of alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide among homosexuals? Can there be pride in the spread of AIDS?

Same-sex marriage is a danger to humanity, the family, children and is against the law of God.

Reynolds MacKay

Provo

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No Standard of Decency

The publication of this letter tells us more about the owner of this newspaper than the letter's author tells us about reality. To be sure, the world is full of those who are misinformed, ignorant, and bigoted. The shame is that this newspaper More..

1:18 a.m. June 11, 2009
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Linguist

I am a gay man, and "pride" has always struck me as something of a misnomer for what the Gay Rights Movement is about.

Rather, it is about the removal of the incredible stigma and animus that society has placed upon good, decent, innocent More..

4:53 a.m. June 11, 2009
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the pointless rampages go on

The author seems to be under the impression that if you rampage on with the same lies long enough people may just start to believe them. These same false claims have been made hundreds of times on these threads and shown to be baseless as many times. More..

6:12 a.m. June 11, 2009
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