Words
T-Notes
by Robbi Cohn February 5, 2011
http://goqnotes.com/9950/words/Words have consequences. That's what Gabby Giffords said before the tragic events in Tucson had transpired. Words have consequences. That's what many of us in the LGBT community think, as well. Spend just one November evening remembering our dead on the Transgender Day of Remembrance and it's crystal clear that language all too often leads to violence.
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My recent letters to the editor to The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.) have not gone quietly into the night. Instead, the rhetoric has been ramped up to the point that I now have actually had to consider the possibility of physical violence to me.
One writer had averred that we live in a Christian nation which has now deteriorated because of so-called deviant homosexual behavior animated by the Antichrist. He then elaborated with this sentence, "You can be homosexual, bisexual, murderer, rapist or whatever because there's no moral law against it." I responded that I was Jewish and American and that diversity of religious expression is alive and well in the United States.
