Should’ve known better

With all due respect to Editor Rob Curley, I appreciate his “apology” for not including “context” to Steve Massey’s outrageous Aug. 12 column spouting religious transphobia, but that column had no respectable place in a newspaper with the credibility of the S-R, with or without context, to begin with.

The headline and column are so blatantly inflammatory and untrue, anyone on your staff should have known better immediately than to have given it any space at all. And that’s not censorship; that’s not printing untruths.

Massey is entitled to choose his beliefs, but the S-R should not be giving space and credence to such ignorance. Science tells us that gender identity does not always match genitalia (nor lack thereof).

What is so ironic about the scriptures he quotes is that they can be interpreted exactly opposite to his arguments (like a fortune cookie or horoscope) and when biblical context, history and audience are added to the mix, do not support his conservative remarks in any way.

Please educate your staff before printing such falsehoods that can cause so much damage to children already struggling with a non-accepting society. Shame on you all.

Vaughn A. Blethen

Moses Lake