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To: DJB who wrote (2671)	9/16/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 6418

I am saddened that you have decided to form an opinion about a group of people on the actions of a few. Hopefully you did not form your opinion on the action of the one sign carrier as that would really be unjust. Do you think people should form opinions about heterosexuals based on Mardi Gras? I do not think that would be fair at all. I admit my sample size was small, but since the reading was consistent, I had confidence that my opinion was reasonably accurate. I could've misjudged the situation. I wasn't too concerned because, as I've posted previously, the issue doesn't seem to touch me personally. (I default to respecting privacy.) Now that you've mentioned it and I've taken the time to reflect, I agree that I should not have formed an opinion based on one televised parade. Unfortunately, the parader's behaviour was a public relations disaster for the gay community. I'm sure I'm not alone in being totally uninformed about gay people and their concerns. However, whenever any group, gay or otherwise, decide to parade in public they should remember that they are communicating a message, and that they should consider seriously just what that message is and how the 'neutral' public will most likely respond. (I'm convinced that those who have already formed an opinion would be reluctant to abandon it, so trying to convert them would be a wasted effort.) I digress. I formed an opinion from the (sketchy) evidence presented by a few seconds of video. There was nothing televised, before or after the parade, to enable me to come to any different conclusion. Perhaps, some day, I'll encounter the evidence I need to alter my opinion, but until then, I'll continue to give weight to the image of the nearly naked men strutting down the road with the "KISS MY GAY ASS" sign. After all, the other gay people in the parade didn't stop them. Cheers, PW.