William Stosine writes about tiny minds in his letter to the Cedar Rapids Gazette: “Today is Memorial Day and it’s a beautiful, sunny morning. Opening the paper, I see The Gazette has printed yet another letter from the man … who is obsessed with homosexuality, and I sigh. I start to wonder…
“I wonder if such a person gets out to enjoy life, or if he sits at home, alone in his tiny room, in his tiny world, in his tiny mind, thinking up new lies about gay people to get printed in his next Gazette letter.
“The headline on his letter says ‘Homosexuals are perverse.’ What is perverse are his delusions of what gay people are like. The writer’s imagination bears no connection to reality. …
“We all know that a hateful person is at heart a frustrated and unhappy person, afraid of something. Perhaps I should feel sorry for him. It must be very upsetting to see openly gay people today are actors, singers, athletes, decorated veterans, politicians, Olympic Gold medalists, and on and on. … Our changing world must be upsetting to a person who is determined to keep his mind closed. I wonder about these things, but not for long. It’s Memorial Day, a beautiful sunny day this year, and I have a picnic and barbecue later with my gay friends. I have better things to do than sit at my typewriter. I hope the letter writer also has something better to do today than sit at his.”