Font ResizeDoug Roper's "Gays as hatemongers" (Forum, June 6) interested me. I agree that gay and lesbian groups, or any organized group, would be more productive acting positively, but not all gays support the negative actions.
The gay boycotts that Roper condemns are similar to Latter-day Saint retaliations against Time Warner for depicting the LDS temple ceremony in HBO's "Big Love."
Consider this from "The Publicity Dilemma" at http://newsroom.lds.org, "The Official Resource for New Media, Opinion Leaders, and the Public":
"Certainly Church members are offended when their most sacred practices are misrepresented or presented without context or understanding. Last week some Church members began e-mail chains calling for cancellations of subscriptions to AOL, which, like HBO, is owned by Time Warner. Certainly such a boycott by hundreds of thousands of computer-savvy Latter-day Saints could have an economic impact on the company. Individual Latter-day Saints have the right to take such actions if they choose."
Roper cited a charge by a gay advocacy group to boycott A-1 Self Storage Co. because it supported California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8. Isn't this action similar to the above LDS actions?
Whatever happened to turning the other cheek?
Todd Andrizzi
Sandy
