Eleventh Avenue South: Katherine Kersten Gets Letters

July 17, 2006

Katherine Kersten Gets Letters

KERSTEN ON GAY MARRIAGE

A fine propagandist

Katherine Kersten's July 13 column, "Pay attention to New York court on same-sex marriage," is a beautiful study in propaganda writing.

"Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision compelling same-sex marriage ..." Compelling? Does that mean that the court decision requires that all gays be married? Gee, I don't think even the Massachusetts court went that far.

"New York will impose gay marriage ..." Impose? Impose on whom? The court could have ruled that gays may get married if they want to, not that they must. It's a big difference.

I think she's using words like these to inflame her fans, and while she's entitled to her own opinions, she not entitled to her own facts.

DAVID PERLMAN, NEW HOPE

Live and let live

No one is imposing gay marriage on Katherine Kersten or her children. She is free to live all her days in her own heterosexual world.

But she must understand there is a real world that includes others.

For those of us in the real world who have loved ones we cherish who happen to be gay, we long for the day they live in equality. Simple equality.

RANDI REITAN, EDEN PRAIRIE

Posted by Andy at July 17, 2006 11:18 AM

Comments

Randi Reitan ROCKS!!!

Posted by: greg | July 17, 2006 12:55 PM

When is the Strib is going to come clean on the fact that KK is not an independent 'columnist' writing on 'her experiences and interests' in 'education, American culture, religion, family life, the suburbs and small-town Minnesota'? You would think from their description of her that she is some apple pie mom from the suburbs, not a paid propagandist for right-wing funded policy think tanks including the Center for the American Experiment and Institute for Religion and Democracy (IRD)? This woman has about as much journalistic credibility as Ann Coulter.

Posted by: Mark Poole | July 17, 2006 8:33 PM

Well, they COULD hire a conservative who actually knows how to write and/or make an argument. Kersten does neither very well, and I think she makes their side look weaker as a result.

The Strib has to hire a conservative writer, as all other newspapers do, and they've chosen a shitty one. It's not the worst thing in the world.

Posted by: Dunner | July 18, 2006 1:36 PM

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