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DEAR EDITOR:
This is in response to a June 25 letter by Pierre Fortier. He said it was shameful and discriminatory to not show a gay version of "Romeo and Juliet" at Boardman Park. He was disappointed about not being able to take his family there to see a timeless classic.
I believe it would have been shameful to show a play like that. I wonder what Shakespeare would have thought of them doing that to his play. He wrote it as a timeless play, not a gay version. Not showing it isn't discriminatory; it's having a good sense of morals. It's ignorant today of what some people think of as discrimination.
He said asserting the existence of LGBTQIA people is a fact of life. Many things in this world are a fact of life yet still wrong. It doesn't make it OK to shove it down people's throats and put it all over the media. They want to teach little children they choose their own gender. Many young people today believe there are more than two genders -- there's bi gender, binary, gender fluid and many others. I worked with a teenage girl who didn't identify as either gender.
And gay people are some of the biggest hypocrites. I've heard gay and bisexual people criticize straight couples because of a large age differences between the man and woman. It's OK to be gay, but it's wrong for a 20-year-old woman to marry a 30-year-old man? No matter what the age difference, at least it's a man and woman, as it's supposed to be. Gay people want you to accept their relationships, but they put other people down for theirs.
Fortier's letter is a perfect example of the moral decline in our world. It's bad enough people are accepting those things; what's worse is thinking there's something wrong with being against it.
I want to commend Boardman Park for standing up for what's right and not showing that play.
STEVE BLESSING
Warren