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Rogi Riverstone I
think you allowed a right-wing Queer basher to publish an "opinion"
piece in New Mexico Politics in which he completely mischaracterized and
slandered Queer people. I think, when I used an inoffensive word to
describe his arrogance and ignorance, you made an editorial decision to
censor my comment, even though what I said was absolutely not harmful to
him, whereas what he said about us could get us: fired, evicted,
harassed, beaten, raped and murdered. I think an article, posted by you
as editor of NMP, singling out ONE religion over all others &
proposing it as an authoritative piece on Queer rights (ignoring
scientific literature, other faith systems, social sciences, atheism,
etc.) betrays a bias toward Christianity from you, as the editor. I also
think we're supposed to have a firewall between church and state in
this country, that the firewall has been horribly violated & abused
and that we're plummeting into a Dark Ages theocracy that will destroy
human progress. I think what one, heterosexual, cis-gendered man (a
person of great privilege) thinks of Queer people, especially in the
context of xianity, is completely irrelevant to the real needs of Queer
people. And I think so-called "moderate" xians are at least as poisonous
to social progress as the rabid Queer bashers, because they're trying
to put a "kinder, gentler" veneer on the face of a genocidal,
megalomaniac, abusive deity that would prefer to see most humans suffer
eternal agony than live, right here, right now, in peace. And I
certainly think New Mexico is steeped enough in ignorance, superstition,
hatred and fear without having that reinforced. That's what I think.
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Today
I want to write about something that has bothered me for the better
part of a decade. Truth is, I’ve been trying to write it off and on for
more than a year now, and the right words have been seemingly impossible
to come by.
