Willamette Week writer Bryon Beck, who pens WW's "Queer Window" column recently endorsed Hillary Clinton. What a writer from WW thinks about the presidential race wouldn't normally get me mad enough to write a letter to the editor. But this time it did.
Mark (Zusman):
One of your authors, Mr. Byron Beck, wrote in WW that Senator Barack Obama's former pastor, Dr Jeremiah Wright, had made "homophobic tirades." This is completely false and requires a retraction from Willamette Week. Dr. Wright is a long-time supporter of the gay and lesbian community and his former church, Trinity United Church of Christ, provides leadership and advocacy in support of gay and lesbian causes. In fact, the United Church of Christ, which Trinity UCC is a part of, is the only mainline church to support marriage equality for gays and lesbians. As a minister in the United Church of Christ, I respectfully request that you correct the false reporting published in your paper.
This article from The Washington Blade will help to correct the record:
http://www.washblade.com/2008/3-21/news/national/
Sincerely, Rev. Chuck Currie
So far my letter has not been published (at least on their online site - which is the only version I ever read). The paper gets a lot of letters, of course, and that mine in particular doesn't get published doesn't bother me much. But I know other people also wrote letters on this subject that have not been printed and so WW has been informed that they have published incorrect information and still they do not correct the record. Why is that?
