Wow! That Brandi Bradley person is a regular flashpoint for excited comments from defenders of the LGBTQIA community. I am referencing the letter by Margaret Furlow “Bradley seeks to divide”). The letters started with “Bradley traffics in vicious slurs” by Eric Brody who defended members of the LGBTQ community. Next was the smug “We deserve better than Bradley” by Megan Burch, who used LGBTQ+. And “Bradley's brew of confusion” by Lloyd Guthrie, who used anti-LGBTQ. I was overwhelmed by all the vivid and thrilling adjectives bandied about.

Eric used decent and sensible three times to prove his point. What was his point again? Did he want those decent people to accept and celebrate LGBTQ people? Actually, he claimed that no one demanded anyone else do anything. “Apart from refraining from slurring whole communities.” Does that include Christian and Muslim communities? Those who may not want to make the LBGTQ+ communities their religion, too? And could we even agree on what they want to be called? Too many letters for me to keep them straight. Talk about a brew of confusion.

Lloyd used Hate, Religion and Freedom, truth and triggers all in the same sentence. Intentional misdirection and disengenuity is used in one paragraph and ideological misdirection and disengenuity in another. Because the goal is to keep us divided and off center with disingenuity in the third paragraph. Reinforcing this false construct. Is he trying to say that Brandi is a liar?

Big words, spewing vitriol. Is this any way to achieve the peace and unity that they claim they want? Are they sharing a thesaurus? Do they sound like word salad?

Mary Ann McCoy

Lone Tree