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Letter: Love them, pity them, pray for them

By J. David Zimmerman, Washougal
Published: January 1, 2023, 6:00am

I wonder how we have allowed the apologists for the LGBTQ community to reduce all the possible responses to their behavior to only two. They insist that either we must approve and applaud their agenda and behavior, or we must hate them. This dichotomy is patently false. There is a wide range of attitudes between those two extremes.

Disapproval of a person’s behavior does not necessarily imply hatred for the individual. For example, a parent may often disapprove of a child’s behavior but obviously that does not prove that she therefore must hate her child.

There are people in my extended family who are part of the LGBTQ community. I deplore their behavior and disagree with their rationale for it but do not hate them. Instead, I love them, pity them and pray for them.

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