This letter is a response to Gordon Larson’s letter to the editor titled, “No Place for Intolerance in Anti-bullying Campaign” (May 2).

While I agree that Dan Savage could have — and should have — found better words to articulate his ideas, many people are allowing his use of profanity to overshadow his actual message.

Although many people, including me, object to how he said it, there is no denying that Dan Savage was absolutely correct in his message: Christians who use the Bible to denounce homosexuality but who do not use it to support slavery, the stoning of women, and other heinous acts condoned by it are being selective and hypocritical. To quote Mr. Savage himself (who was in part quoting Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author), “We ignore what the Bible says about slavery because the Bible got slavery wrong … [If] the Bible got the easiest moral question that humanity has ever faced wrong, slavery, what are the odds that the Bible got something as complicated as human sexuality wrong? 100 percent.”

As a Christian ally of the gay rights movement, I would like to hear anti-gay Christians justify this flagrant discrepancy in their views.

Darya Gemmel,
Supporter of civil rights,
Austin