An open letter to Ms. Schlafly and family:

Dear Family Schlafly,

Yes, it’s true that we live in a universe of infinite mystery, wonder, terror, possibility and what should probably be terminal silliness.

Deal with it.

Unfortunately, attacking the people who describe said universe will not change the nature of the universe itself.

Controlling the study of art and literature that describes the variety of the human condition within that universe will not change the fact that sometimes people break, and can’t be fixed.

Blaming the victim only works in a situation where most of the society is made up of perpetrators.

You can create your own authoritative references.  You can try to force God into a 6,000-year-creation schedule.  You can even edit your own controversies.

But it won’t make you one iota safer, give you one minute bit more control over God or the universe…won’t even  shed a single lumen of truth on the nature of existence.  Nor, in the fullness of time will it even grant you more than a place as a useless name in the bone-pile of history.

Just thought you should know, so you can quit wasting your time and ours, and get on about the business of living constructively in the world as it is.

Sincerely,

Teresa