Letters to the editor THE HERALD Wednesday Janury 17 Reader slams columnists opinions To the editor of The Herald week one Gerry Lands- borough Viewpoint herself of some polemics In the matter gay rights In her confused tirade Ma Landiborough proclaimed herself a Journalist Some journalist In ber views on homosexuality so far as I could discern their precise drift and in her com mand of the language Ms appeared to have run the gamut of her resources from A to Putting to one side for the moment Ms barbaric and paleolithic views on deviant sexual behaviour being green is not a crime in any country on this planet but I be damned if I want my child being taught by someone green let me draw your attention to some or the finer felicities of her prose style Cross Incoherence In tod ay s world of ever chang values and the every day Clean up McGibbon Dear Sir I writing about the hotel situation in Georgetown We have none Our only hotel the McGibbon hotel issosleaty I do not think a bum would give it a second glance It also gives this town a bad impression People travelling slop in Georgetown and look for a suitable hotel When they find none away they go There goes what little tourist business Georgetown has business men who like to stop overnight no hotel Last year a man was killed in the McGibbon hotel in a drunken brawl The place is disgusting and should be closed down torn down and a new one rebuilt I think that if small owns can have a half decent hotel why not Georgetown think that we could build one of we tried Yours truly David pressures of living things were enough when an entire generation of middleage sic dulls starting analysing them Clumsiness it Is no I agreed upon In scientific circles whether homosexuality a con behaviour or a physical condition that one is bom with be changed Lack of Agree men I Scvtral examples of this One will perhaps Now comes the d cult parts Quite Ms Landsborough tunon leniences More than one sample of this too Try Sexual orientation is garbage our sexual oriental on was designed by nature Whimsical not lo say exotic vocabulary usage Con certain ises to be done How do you DO practices Ms Or What is an endanger freedom of the press Ignorance Ms Landsborough Inconsistency I agree with Ms here Let get rid of the subjunctive How ever let it all shall we Let not chicken out as in If their political view WAS drastically removed from mine if their social moral view WEHE ale drastically different Spetlng Ms These ore done SC1LNSELY Be cousea groups BANS together Right on the Ms a any visible rnl 1 be damned if I want my child being taught by some one green and I really don care If THEY arc normal in every other rispeel Come come Ms to whom does the word THEY refer 9 Comma Blunder As in Destroying he moral fibre of any society is the destruction of that society itself history bore that point out ID No Punctuation For Inst the majority of the population docs not paint them selves sic green nor would want their child taught by a green person it Is not in keeping with what we consider normal we being the majority Now if Ms Landsborough makes her livelihood as she suggests by mangling the long uage In a fashion that would be intolerable a Grade class the craft of journalism and your paper is in a lot more trouble than I would previously have Moreover if Ms as a column 1st can so garble even the simplest cadences of mother tongue how much more garbled do you suppose her thought processes be Indeed her hodgepodge of prejudices about mlnontj rights and exhibits the moral sensitivity of a lynch mob and the humility of Perhaps Ms Lands borough should first learn to write before launching herself Into the headier realms of and ethics In the meantime her View point represents a threat to the true meaning of a democratic society Or as she herself so eloquently puts An freedom But then who knows per haps Ms Landsborough wrote her piece Jim Henderson ILVER its our ANNUAL JANUARY WALLPAPER and PAINT SALE Continues UP TO UP TO I AS LOW AS ON WALLPAPER MORE THAN 200 BOOKS TO CHOOSE FROM ONE OF THE MANY BOOKS TO CHOOSE FROM AT JANUARY SALE PRICES FANFARE SUPER VINYL ARMOUR WALL GLIDDEN ULTRAHIDE PAINTS bidden FLAT LATEX High Qualify Paint At a Low Low Price 95 SPECIAL GAL MANY OTHER ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE STORE STORE ON SALE GEORGETOWN DECORATING CENTRE DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN 8774193 Ladies Wear A Mens Wear Childrens Wear Jeans SILVERS DOWNTOWN