TO THE EDITOR:
Was it absolutely necessary to give a thumbs-up to the death of Fred Phelps in your Thursday Quickhits?
I should specify here that as a gay, Catholic woman who has never made a sandwich for a man in her life, I’m about as far from Phelps’ congregation as his own children.
The Westboro Baptist Church has made terribly cruel protests (perhaps the most heart-wrenching to the funeral of college student Matthew Shepard), but their conduct is no reason to malign a dead man.
Furthermore, mocking Westboro Baptist Church just puts us on their level — instead, why don’t we engage in a positive, productive conversation, like the Faith, Sexuality, and Identity talk this Friday?
That’d be a harsher hit to the Westboro Baptist Church’s homophobia than a cruel, pointless jab at their dead leader.
Chelse Lang ’14
Psychology
