Pubdate: Thu, 03 Jul 2003
Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (WI)
Copyright: 2003 Green Bay Press-Gazette
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Author: John Olski

IT'S SAD TO NEED TO GO TO CANADA FOR FAIRNESS

STURGEON BAY - Joe Heller's June 25 cartoon of Canadian-bound seniors
finding a pot smoker and a gay couple in their midst offers an older,
conservative person's view of a changing world.

I don't know much about medical or recreational marijuana use, but I
do understand that the gay men depicted seek a kind of fairness the
seniors are after in filling their medical prescriptions.

We have one life in which to care for ourselves and our loved ones,
and we' ll do it with or without the help of our governments.

Jonah Goldberg's recent op-ed suggested that gay people in the last 35
years fought merely for a chance to make sexual innuendo on TV
sitcoms. One might expect a right-wing ideologue to overlook a history
of anti-gay police harassment, religious persecution, discrimination
in housing and employment, physical violence in schools and
communities and legal rulings intended to deprive gay citizens of
family and property.

The sad subtext of Joe Heller's cartoon is that, for many Americans,
the idea of obtaining a fair deal involves crossing the border.

John Olski
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