I do not think that you should post Chuck Asay's cartoons on homosexuality. They are not intellectually valid (I feel like I hardly need to explain myself there.) They are, quite simply, ridiculous.

More to the point, they are mean. To portray homosexuality as something which is unhealthy, is mean. To appropriate the language of objectivity, which comes from his pretension of having arrived at this bigotry from a scientific evaluation is also misleading.

Why is there a forum for this on slate.com? In a time when many men and women are struggling with this biological fact-- that some of them are gay (just like some rams are gay, and dolphins, and penguins)-- it does not seem responsible to be posting these uneducated musings of Chuck Asay (for those struggling with their sexualities to see.)

Personally, I think you should leave this trash to Colorado. Spare the rest of us, please. My little brother is gay and I know how things like this upset him: Very much.

The rest of us can ignore it, because it's wrong and it's irrelevant; Chuck Asay will be left on the wayward sides of history. Of course, he will be forgotten; but, more importantly, so will his ideas.

Still, no matter how obvious this might seem to the rest of us, to my little brother, it is not. It sounds strange, but he is the only person whom I have ever known (and respected) who has actually sought out these kinds of socially conservative (and homophobic) opinions.

With a level mind, they are easy to dismiss. But, with him, they target something personal. That is not healthy. Exposing perfectly decent people to hideous opinions-- that they are something less than perfectly decent-- THAT is what is not healthy. Not homosexuality, itself. Not at all.