Coping with the Phelps crowd

["Joan Opyr" <auntiestablishment@hotmail.com>]

Alas, Debi, you're being mail-bombed.  It may go on for quite awhile, at 
least until Fred runs out of family members with Internet access.  Never 
fear, though: once all twenty-eight of them have logged on and personally 
condemned you to hell, I'm sure they'll go back to singing along with the 
"Hee-Haw" reruns.

(If, however, any of them should cross the line and threaten you with actual 
harm, you can contact <admin@> whatever internet provider they happen to be 
using.  That'll shut that down.)

On a related note, I'd just like to say that I found Mark Rounds' post quite 
touching.  In the gay community, we often toss words like "fag" and "dyke" 
around at one another in order to take the sting out of them.  While I 
certainly found Bill's post and all the follow-ups very funny and 
supportive, it's also nice to read a thoughtful piece by a person of good 
will about the continued negative power of epithets.

Sincerely,
Auntie E.

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