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Sunday, September 09, 2001

Welcome to the 21st Century... too bad people are still as narrow-minded as in the 20th.

Here's the deal: For Better or Worse has been a comic strip in newspapers for decades. It's also one of the few strips where the characters have been aging.

The current storyline has the son (Michael) getting married. The storyline has him getting one of his best friends as best man... said friend happening to be gay.

Cartoonist Lynn Johnson has the mother of the bride worried about this - but the Bible Belt seem to be up in arms about it in real life. How dare she have a gay character in her strip, and how dare she put him in this storyline.

My question: how dare you people still be so closed-minded and ignorant? Gay people have been a facet of life since time began - and in the grand scheme of life, it doesn't matter one way or the other.

I'm disgusted that such narrow-minded people still exist.

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