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If being gay is 'abnormal,' how about being a lefty?

If being gay is 'abnormal,' how about being a lefty?

Date published: 7/24/2003

I want to thank Al Rios for sharing his insight on homosexuality as a disease ["Science hasn't shown that homosexuality's a 'given,'" July 15]. Webster says the word "abnormal" means not "normal, not average, not typical," and the word "disease" refers to health and illness. Mr. Rios' contention, however, is that any abnormal function of the body, even if it has no effect on health, is a disease.

That being the case, I want to point out another diseased group: lefties. To use Mr. Rios' words: "The majority of humans throughout history has been socially and culturally" right-handed. That makes the natural inclinations of a left-handed person different. Not average. Not normal. In other words, the body of a left-handed person functions abnormally and is, according to Mr. Rios, diseased.

Do we hate these people? No, but they must be cured.

Society once took "proper action." Schools forced inflicted children to use their "proper' hand, and parents were told to tie down the offending appendage while at dinner so the "normal" hand would hold the fork. Even so, some of these diseased children would be caught in their room, late at night, doing unspeakably abnormal things with a pencil or ball.

Still, progress was being made; children were being cured, until those bleeding-heart liberals on the "left" (A coincidence? I don't think so) started telling lefties that they weren't diseased, just different. And slowly, one by one, they started "coming out of the glove." Now some of them are brazen enough to even demand their own scissors.

What is next. Left-handers in the military? Sure, we can teach them to salute with their right hand, but in the shower room, when decent right-handers are at their most vulnerable, I think we all know in which hand these miscreants will be holding the soap. And what about adoption? How could two left-handed people possibly raise a child to be right-handed?

It is shocking. It is an outrage. It must be stopped.

David Beardsley

Spotsylvania

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Date published: 7/24/2003