Yes Virginia, Homophobia Still Exists

An email received by Andrew Sullivan:

"It's always been clear to me that you have a fine mind and the ability to write, but these talents are attenuated by your unremitting homosexuality - the emotional need to have aberrant sex. Clearly, your perversion and deviancy have affected your reason. Thus, you have no credibility as an observer of the current social and political climate. You are simply another frustrated fag who is trying very hard to legitimize his sexual perversion by striking out against anyone who wants to maintain thousands of years of normalcy. God, what must the average and decent American do to put the sexual deviates in their place (in concentration camps or mental institutions)."

What's scary about this is that the syntax clearly indicates that it was not written by some uneducated redneck, but by someone with at least something resembling a classical education. Sullivan points out that he receives such email regularly and posts it once in a while just to remind people that there are still pockets of serious irrational hatred in this country, even if covered over with a veneer of acadmic respectability.