Dear Editor:
Re: Deity direction, Aug. 1.
Doug Vanderveen’s protestations are immature: “I know you are, but what am I.” This is not profound nor worthy of publishing.
Let me be clear: I challenge Vanderveen’s and others’ similar opinions because they are tacitly exclusionary; they marginalize and stigmatize people who merely exist outside of his understanding and own worldview.
His and others’ views are intolerant because they primarily exclude those who exist beyond their realm of reference. Their view is arrogant because it assumes, from the outset, that LGBTQ+ people need some sort of fix.
We don’t need Christ, rather Vanderveen needs a lesson in charity and acceptance.
Finally, the views are not at all compassionate because instead of understanding and acceptance, he believes that we can somehow be fixed, that we are somehow impure and undeserving of basic dignity.
Vanderveen’s opinions don’t deserve the light of day.
Connor Maitland,
Centre Wellington