Portrayal of gay relations on television ‘sickening’

Nicholas Benjamin, ‘07 / Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

While home for the weekend during the fall semester, I walked into the living room while my mom, using the wonderful new invention Tivo, was rewinding a part of the show “Will and Grace.” She said only, “You won’t believe this,” and pushed play.

Standing there, disgusted, watching two men kiss on national television, I asked myself the same thing Blake Hinton asked himself in last week’s column while watching the State of the Union address. “What the hell is going on?”

I, for one, representing many other Americans Hinton has obviously never met, cannot tolerate the way homosexuality is being represented on television in America.

I am sickened by the way it is being represented on television: as a normal, everyday thing that everyone should openly accept and approve of.

I think Hinton even put it correctly in his article when he stated that one would get the impression that’s it is OK. One would get that impression, but homosexuality is not accepted and shouldn’t be.

I’m sure he does not care too much for President Bush, but the last thing Hinton should be doing is blaming Bush for trying to pass an amendment banning gay marriage.

In case Hinton has not noticed, it’s not just George Bush who doesn’t approve of gay marriage. The last thing I would think is Bush is holding America back by not “looking into the future,” as Hinton put it.

When Hinton talks about sanctity of marriage in his column, I actually found it amusing. He basically tries to bring down the level of sanctity that marriage holds today in an attempt to pass gay marriage as acceptable. If that is what it takes, do you really think America is ready for such a thing?

If someone has to belittle marriage by making it seem like it is not as sacred as it was 50 years ago, then he or she should realize that perhaps homosexual marriage is not as acceptable as he or she makes it out to be.

I also was surprised by the comment about marriage being not about love between a man and a woman, but about love between people.

Well, if Hinton is in a position to make up his own definitions, then I will make up mine.

Actually, I will do better and quote one from a higher source: “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable,” Leviticus 18: 22.

Even if marriage between same-sex partners is legalized, which would certainly create an end to anyone’s political career, homosexuals in America will not be considered normal or ordinary in any way.

Get used to it.