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Extremism ‘in context’?

Your editor does not apologize for running Pastor Steve Massey’s medieval column (“Christians must offer compassion, not acceptance, of transgenderism.” Aug. 12.) Instead, he regrets not having provided “context.”

Ah, “context”- the favorite hidey-hole of all those who have said something they shouldn’t. In what “context” are Massey’s phrases “transgenderism is not normative nor acceptable,” “disordered desires,” “sin,” and “destructive fantasy” to be taken?

Spokane lies in the middle of a 1,656 mile void between Minneapolis and Seattle. This may account for the failure of the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment to have reached it. This city complains about being thought of as backwards, yet your newspaper just aided in that perception.

While at the Lawrence Journal-World in his native Kansas, Curley says he took pride in printing the words of Fred Phelps’ of Westboro Baptist Church, which loves to protest with homophobic banners at the burials of dead servicemen. Is that the direction The Spokesman-Review intends to take?

Stevan Alburty

Liberty Lake

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