Susan Sanford, the copy editor for the Daily Mountain Eagle in Jasper, Alabama, is--to use understatement--a raving fruitcake. In her editorial of February 20, Sanford not only assumes that everyone in the country is a nutcase fundamentalist Christian, she also maintains that "those who do such things [engage in homosexual relationships], and those who think they are amusing---or innocent--are worthy of death."

Want a piece of me, Susan? I suggest you try for my brain, since you obviously came into this world without one. Or perhaps my heart, since you have none.

Just think, if Susan Sanford is permitted to write editorials for the
Daily Mountain Eagle, what must the rest of the staff be like? If Sanford is permitted to promote her undiluted ignorance and hate, what kind of news is being distributed by this paper? And if she is permitted to publish her belief that my gay friends--and all of us who hope daily for equal rights for gay citizens--should die, where is the evil?

That seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? The evil is within this ignorant, hateful, frightened (a little too frightened, if you know what I mean) "Christian" woman.

Feel free to drop her a line: jasper@mountaineagle.com.