His name is Tom
I think what the City
Council in Salt Lake City did was based merely on a standard of feeling
sorry for people who have sexual orientations that are not traditional
so to say. Recently I got a job doing work in Salt Lake City helping
clients with medical benefits mainly for retired people. One of my
supervisors was a homosexual and had a disease that made his skin peel a
lot. Unfortunately I was forced to have this person train me at his
office desk and it was really scary for me to just be around him. He
always looked really sick and had a huge pile of dead skin on his desk
that he would constantly peel away because he had a sexual disease. I
understand people like this need to work but I think what they do if
they have problems like this should be limited if it is offensive to
others. I quit this job within a matter of about three weeks because I
just didn't want to be in this type of environment. I'm sure this cost
the company money by training me and having me leave. I just think
people that have these kinds of problems should be limited to what they
do. I also worked at eBay in their billing department in Salt Lake and
they had some homosexuals there. They thought it would be a good idea to
put them next to each other so they wouldn't be a burden on others and
unfortunately they became very loud and obnoxious. They would always
talk about dirty sexual things with each other and what gay clubs they
were going to hit for the weekends. I couldn't stand that job for much
longer either but at least I had the choice of not sitting near them.
Currently I think the population of homosexuals in Salt Lake is pretty
large and it can be difficult sometimes to know how to manage them with
HR means so I think this is something that can be very difficult to
really come up with a definite answer with. I think banning gay marriage
in the future will become more difficult to pass. I think the gay
population is booming in many areas of the country, especially in places
like New York City and even Salt Lake. I think that while there are
many problems with homosexuals such as that they can have bad habits,
live in poor conditions, and often try making people to take part in
their ways so they can satisfy themselves that people may try having gay
marriage just to see if this can help with the problems of spreading
diseases, unethical behaviors, and so forth. I think when people are
married they have committed to stay with their partner and not go off on
their own to prey on others so this could have a potential for being
more beneficial to society. Personally however, I don't approve of this
and the outcome may be a little difficult to predict. I think there is
much validity to the factors in the fivethirtyeight analysis are pretty
accurate. The recent publicity alone for gay marriage seems to have gone
up a lot with media such as CNN or other major publications and it
doesn't really seem to ever slow down so I think their predictions could
be at least in the right direction and this also includes Utah as well.
For some reason I think Gay's in Utah are getting larger in population
and they really don't seem to be slowing down too much in their popular
ideals.
I was stunned by the ignorant and cruel assertions made by this man, but what shocked me more was that only one person besides myself said anything about it. Another student pointed out the incorrect statements made by Tom, but the rest of the class stayed silent. I am aware that the first amendment allows us to speak freely, and in his defense Tom said that he felt he had to keep these opinions to himself and so vented them online. He further defends himself by saying that he should be able to express his true feelings, I agree with that, but where does free expression end and the need for decency begin?
This man could have said "I don't like gay people", or "On religious grounds I appose gay marriage." but he did not. Instead he refers to all gay people as "the homosexuals," or "the gays". he makes unfair judgements about all gay people, and accuses them of rape and other criminal actions. I am grateful that even here in conservative Utah that this kind of language is not tolerated in public, but I know that Tom's statement in this regard is not entirely true. I am grateful that he has enough tact and a sense of shame to know that these words should not be spoken. My goal then is to make the Internet, or pockets of it such a place. A place where ideas can be shared, and differing opinions respected without allowing for the use of hate filled inflamed language. This was posted on a school bulletin board, this is the online equivalent to saying this in a class room. We must treat online discussions with the same degree of thoughtfulness as we treat face to face interactions. This is especially true in an academic setting. We must speak out, we must make the world an uncomfortable place for people like this to speak so hatefully in. There are far kinder ways to share your opinion without resorting to this horrid language.
I was stunned by the ignorant and cruel assertions made by this man, but what shocked me more was that only one person besides myself said anything about it. Another student pointed out the incorrect statements made by Tom, but the rest of the class stayed silent. I am aware that the first amendment allows us to speak freely, and in his defense Tom said that he felt he had to keep these opinions to himself and so vented them online. He further defends himself by saying that he should be able to express his true feelings, I agree with that, but where does free expression end and the need for decency begin?
This man could have said "I don't like gay people", or "On religious grounds I appose gay marriage." but he did not. Instead he refers to all gay people as "the homosexuals," or "the gays". he makes unfair judgements about all gay people, and accuses them of rape and other criminal actions. I am grateful that even here in conservative Utah that this kind of language is not tolerated in public, but I know that Tom's statement in this regard is not entirely true. I am grateful that he has enough tact and a sense of shame to know that these words should not be spoken. My goal then is to make the Internet, or pockets of it such a place. A place where ideas can be shared, and differing opinions respected without allowing for the use of hate filled inflamed language. This was posted on a school bulletin board, this is the online equivalent to saying this in a class room. We must treat online discussions with the same degree of thoughtfulness as we treat face to face interactions. This is especially true in an academic setting. We must speak out, we must make the world an uncomfortable place for people like this to speak so hatefully in. There are far kinder ways to share your opinion without resorting to this horrid language.
