Words becoming warped

It’s almost too sickening and disgusting to put into polite words, but I’ll do my best. They have succeeded in completely changing the meaning of the word “gay” and now they are out to change the meaning of many other words.

For centuries, husbands were men and wives were women. Husbands married wives and wives married husbands. Not anymore. Husbands sometimes marry husbands and wives sometimes marry wives. But it isn’t even that simple and clear-cut anymore.

Sometimes the female wants to be called the husband and sometimes the male insists that he is the wife. Hence, I predict that very soon the words “husbands” and “wives” will be politically incorrect and be banned. Use them and you will be called bigoted and intolerant.

But this isn’t all. No, not by a long shot. From the front page of the Sept. 5 Spokesman-Review, we now learn that after all these many years of its existence, Seattle has its first real “gentleman.” Husband Michael Shiosaki is married to his husband Ed Murray, Seattle’s mayor. So now we learn we naive heterosexual men cannot be gentlemen. The complimentary label, like the word gay, has now been kidnapped by homosexuals.

After 62 years as a husband and a gentleman, I now learn that as a mere heterosexual, I’m neither.

Ken Campbell

Deer Park