Re “Two Smart School Board Candidates”
In response to Ari Noonan’s take on what it means to be gay in electoral politics (or his latest complaint about that old saw of the right, political correctness):
I’m sorry.
I’m confused as to your point here.
On one hand, you say that the candidates were smart not to make their sexual preferences an issue as it would have surely ended up being the end of their campaigns. Yet this somehow morphs into another of your diatribes on political correctness?
Tell me, would anyone have voted for any candidate who made an issue of their sexual preference, either homo or hetero? Why would any reasonable aspiring public servant do so?
To what end?
I have no reason to doubt that you have knowledge of what it means to be gay and out in America today, whether it is family or your best friends who have provided you this special insight.
I do know that many people in the community were aware that these candidates were gay before they voted for them.
If it was a secret, it was a pretty open secret, but clearly irrelevant to most of us in the know, compared to the more important issues at hand. (Namely, who will most accurately represent my concerns and priorities on the School Board.)
Mr. Noonan, your piece rings as disingenuous and muddled at best. But it does serve to give us some hints as to what your issues are, post-election.
Mr. Province may be contacted at jprovince@yahoo.com
