READERS WRITE: "Brokeback's" message worth considering [libertarian talking point]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 1/17/06 | NORMAN RAVITCH

[madprof98]

Theater officials in some communities are not showing the path-breaking "Brokeback Mountain," a movie rivaling in importance the post-World War II "Gentleman's Agreement," which took on polite but deadly anti-Semitism in the American elite.

It is not just about two gay cowboys. It is about how homophobia and hypocrisy force them to marry and have children instead of living the lives God and nature gave them. The results are tragic, not just for them but for those around them.

The target here is hypocrisy and self-appointed moralists who think they can tell us how to think, how to live, how to say happy holidays and how to interpret world events.

NORMAN RAVITCH, Savannah

[madprof98]

This was in Letters to the Editor in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning. The author is a retired professor and self-described libertarian.

[neodad]

It is about how homophobia and hypocrisy force them to marry and have children instead of living the lives God and nature gave them.

Sounds like a bitter, old fag.

[pissant]

Liberal, more like it.

[MNJohnnie]

Get a grip. This movie is completely insignificant. What an embarrassment that this was written by a Professor! Sorry Prof but YOU do NOT have the right to dictate what morality SHOULD be to everyone else. Amazing how basically totalitarian these people are demanding that they be allowed to impose their lassie faire morality on everyone else.

[Bommer]

instead of living the lives God and nature gave them.

Yep, old God up there wants everyone to live their life in an abomination to him!

[martin_fierro]

Ms. Ravitch

[atomicpossum]

The target here is hypocrisy and self-appointed moralists who think they can tell us how to think, how to live, how to say happy holidays and how to interpret world events.

The Prof sounds like a bit of a self-appointed moralist himself. But I'm sure the irony is lost on him...

[OpusatFR]

"The target here is hypocrisy and self-appointed moralists who think they can tell us how to think, how to live, how to say happy holidays and how to interpret world events."

This from the PC police. I don't think I care if someone is homosexual. What I dispise is the constant push to tell ME what I have to think, live and interpret.

[pissant]

I think he was the maid of honor at Elton John's wedding.

[siunevada]

The target here is hypocrisy and self-appointed moralists who think they can tell us how to think, how to live, that sheepherders shouldn't be called cowboys.

[the OlLine Rebel]

No, LiberTINE is more like it.

[wagglebee]

homophobia and hypocrisy force them to marry and have children instead of living the lives God and nature gave them.

There is no Biblical foundation to argue that God makes anyone a homosexual, nor is there any evidence that nature does so. What there is, is a radical leftist homosexual agenda and this movie is part of that.

[quantim]

This movie is completely insignificant.

That also goes for 'Transamerica,' another winner last night (loser actually). One can mutilate their genitals all they want and dump themselves with hormones but that does not change a single chromosome. 

[beef]

I guess he's complaining that some theater owners have chosen not to show a particular movie in their theaters. If he were a libertarian, he would have defended their right to decide what movies they do or don't want to show.

[wagglebee]

Homosexual agenda ping.

The libertarians are now trying to say God makes people homosexual. The oddest part is that the left doesn't even believe in God.

[Vaquero]

here is my take on it....and we all know what opinions are like.

I dont care who buggers whom (of course following the dictates of legal age). But for God sake if it unnatural, keep it out of the main stream and the media. Nobody needs to see it....it is disgusting. Don't make it a cause celeb....keep it your dirty little secret.

What the proponents of this call a phobia, is not....its is revulsion, like what most people feel seeing the remains of a suicide bomber or someone who was in a nasty motorcycle accident. Not for the front page, so to speak.

[MNJohnnie]

No, LiberTINE is more like it.

You sure nailed it there.

[Fudd Fan]

More tripe from the Atlanta Urinal Constipation.

[Fudd Fan]

Great point. BINGO!

[RichInOC]

Geahh. Ravitch was a history professor at my alma mater. I'd like to apologize to everybody.