To the Editor:

Re “Top General Explains Remarks on Gays” (news article, March 14):

Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has refused to apologize for his remarks about what he called the immorality of homosexual conduct. While I understand that this is his opinion, it is not an opinion shared by everyone. But I think that most people would agree that bigotry is immoral.

General Pace demonstrates marked ignorance and bigotry, and that kind of immorality doesn’t belong in our military . . . or our society.

(Rev.) William H. Carey
Ferndale, Mich., March 14, 2007

Note from KBJ: “If you don’t share my values, you’re a bigot.” This is what passes for argumentation among progressives. Note that by the letter writer’s standard, the vast majority of people in the world today are bigots, for the vast majority of people in the world today believe that homosexual conduct is wrong. And what exactly is General Pace ignorant of? What piece of information does he lack? Never mind. “You’re ignorant” has no cognitive meaning; it’s simply a form of abuse, no different in principle from hitting someone over the head with a two-by-four. Progressives are great abusers—both of those with whom they disagree and of the language.

Note 2 from KBJ: The editorial board of The New York Times chimes in. No wonder the Times‘s readership is falling like a house of cards. People don’t take kindly to being insulted day in and day out.