If you’re from any Small Town, USA, then you know your local paper can be filled with both robust local entertainment coverage … and conservative vitriol. Pick up North Carolina’s Asheville Citizen-Times and browse the Letters to the Editor section, and you’ll know which way the wind is blowing: “I feel morally obligated to express my opinion. I am a transplant from Jackson, Miss., who is astounded by how many homosexuals have ‘infested’ this beautiful city. I just don’t know what the general population should do. Perhaps the solution would be to set aside a specific state of the union for them to inhabit – perhaps we should set up a new name for Connecticut and call it ‘Sodom’ or ‘Gomorrah.'” God bless this letter’s author; she signed her name.
Regarding the story, “Gay wedding ban protested,” (AC-T, Dec. 21): I feel morally obligated to express my opinion. I am a transplant from Jackson, Miss., who is astounded by how many homosexuals have “infested” this beautiful city. I just don’t know what the general population should do.
Perhaps the solution would be to set aside a specific state of the union for them to inhabit – perhaps we should set up a new name for Connecticut and call it “ Sodom” or “Gomorrah.” I guess what these people think is that I should not be disgusted when I see them walking down the street holding hands and kissing in public. Do they think we can’t help but think about what they do in private when we see them going as far as they can in public?
I speak as a straight person and am against acts committed against God’s “natural” plan for the human race and the animals He put here for us to be in charge of. I encourage anyone to write an opinion on why they think that God made a male and a female.
If God condoned this type of behavior, He would have created one sex – not two.
Nancy Robertson, Arden [C-T]
Photo: Terry Wetherholt
flucht17
Dear Nancy Robertson,
I think God made a male and a female becau– oh wait, God doesn’t exist.
waffle twat
See You Next Tuesday!
Two guys or two girls wanna share a smooch on the sidewalk and this lady can’t help but picture them naked and fucking? Obviously she’s got a damn dirty mind and she should gouge out her eyes for making her think those sinful thoughts and ask her lord jeebus for forgiveness.
BrianZ
I love that she admitted she can’t stop herself from thinking about what gays do in the bedroom. OMG Someone holding hands and kissing in public? *gaygasp* I bet they love it rough and dirty … Oh I need to stop I’m turning myself on.
I only hope this woman gets the attention, from all of us, that she deserves. Perhaps some information as to how to contact Ms. Robertson would be useful?
hardmannyc
I have a feeling there are plenty of fags in good ole’ Jackson.
kiltnc
Nancy Robertson needs to pack up and move back to Jackson Miss because Asheville NC has been a bastion for the alternative crowd for many years and will continue to be. Asheville loves its gays, hippies, witches, and anyone else that walks to a beat of a different drummer.
Cam
Dear Nancy,
Since you live in Ashville, it’s most likely too late…you have undoubtedly caught “gay”. It will start to manifest and you will begin showing outward signs in 6 – 12 months. You may try to fight the urge to join a women’s softball team, try a different haircut, or reseal your concreat patio. I assure you this is only the beginning. In no time you will start asking people to call you “Nance” and you and your new girlfriend will begin adoption proceedings. Welcome to “gay”.
Hint
Statehood for New Sodom!
Geoffrey
“Nancy”? Could it get more ironic? I’ll bet she’s BFFs with Sally Kearn.
Roy Pyatt
I am packing my bags. Can we name it Utopia?
Then we can create a state called Moronia and force all idiot bigots to move there. Nancy, bitch, pack your bags!
The Divine Grace
Oh, kids!
As a big ole sausage-smoker who was raised in (TR)Asheville, North Cackalacky, this article comes as no shock to me. Ashevegas has always been a little cognitively retarded where matters of sexual orientation and race are concerned. But Asheville is gay, girls. Gay gay gay gay gay. The place is as fey as pink poodle poop. There’s no getting around it. There is, however, getting OVER it; which is precisely what Ms. Robertson will have to do if she intends to live out her sad and angry little existence in the “Paris of the Southâ€.
I must say though, her suggestion that we rename Connecticut and call it ‘Sodom’ or ‘Gomorrah’ is just flat-out genius! Can you even begin to imagine the marketing campaign? We could totally lift other cities’ and states’ themes and use them as our own! “Gomorrah is For Lovers†or “What Happens in Sodom Stays in Sodomâ€! Gomorrah- “The Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine†State! Take a cue from a Georgia neighbor: “Sodom on My Mindâ€. The list is unlimited.
Pure hotness.
blake
God loves a fool, so he must really love Nancy!
What does ignorant Nancy think about intersexed people, those who are born with both female and male sex characteristics? Do intersexed people (and animals) cause her head to spin. How could her “god” not create life to accomodate her beliefs.
(I skipped the whole “evolution” thing because obviously doesn’t believe in it. BTW, how do Creationist explain how anti-biotic resistant bacteria develop? Do they think that their god designs them deliberately?)
Alan down in Florida
There are 2 Nancy Robertsons in Asheville.
http://arden.iaf.net/results.php?ReportType=34&aid=466&refer=1334&adword=IAF%257CPS.MDL&qc=arden&qf=Nancy&qn=Robertson&qs=NC
Alan down in Florida
Somehow I doubt all of us could fit into Connecticut. I call dibs on California.
NativeNYker
If nothing else you can respect the fact that she felt so strongly about her opinion that she put her name to it! Ignorance with conviction!
xo
Rants, Thoughts & Merde
http://rantsthoughtsmerde.blogspot.com/2009/01/baby-holidays.html
Debby
We should pray for Nancy and those like her. God wants us to love everyone, maybe she should try that. It takes more energy to be hatred towards others than it does to be happy.
Or we could take those like her and ship them off to one state.
rigso
Nancy, first. you an ignorant fool. Second. We don’t live in a theocracy so who gives a shit?
vince
i wonder when Nancy left Jackson, as we’re all over this city. and the surrounding areas. and probably her family.
Mikey
Or … All the bat-shit crazy zealots that can’t live with people who are different than them should be relocated to a state used to such behavior. The can call it Utah!
jeff
@Alan down in Florida:
one is the good nancy whose daughter is …..gay.
REALLY
As an Asheville native I love that it is one of the gayest places in the USofA and if I ever move back to the states from Canada its one of the top spots on my list to resettle.
Justin Allen
Now I want to go to Asheville. Sounds cool- maybe buy a second house there one day. Good idea. Thanks Nancy!!!
seitan-on-a-stick
Does Queerty get more of a kick out of trolling back-watered states for anti-gay editorials or do they croon when the hate-stream press gives Queerty the publicity always ending quotes with “run amok.” Poor Nancy has mental illness and the editorial staff obviously did not pick up on this. Many of the chemically imbalanced have a skewed version of the Bible: the best-selling work of Fiction ever stemming from their own fears.
fed-up frank
Hey Nancy, I’m a dude and guess what? I have nipples! Now why would god give a dude nipples? Please explain.
Bruno
@seitan-on-a-stick:
Put this kind of mentally ill person in the room with a gay person and a bible, and she’ll beat you with it. Know thy enemy if they’re allowed to run amok with their illness.
Bruno
@seitan-on-a-stick:
Put this kind of mentally ill person in a room with a gay person and a bible, and she’ll beat them with it. Know thy enemy if they’re allowed to run amok with their illness.
Graham
I love Nancy’s use of superfluous quotations when she says homosexuals have “infested” Asheville, and committed acts against God’s “natural” plan. Are those direct quotations, or is her letter merely embedded with a sense of irony so opaque we’ve all missed the joke?
kevin
As someone who was born and raised in Asheville and who now lives in San Francisco, I’d like to tell that beeyatch to take her KKK azz back to Mississippi Burning and stay the eff out of the mountains. Asheville is very much a hippy-dippy New Age mountain town, but there are still some hillbilly fags and dykes who wouldn’t think twice at firing a round of buckshot into Mizz Robertson’s cottage-cheese butt.
“Nancy” (LOL), you don’t belong in Asheville. You’re nothing but another haughty outsider and foul-smelling lowlander.
The Divine Grace
This has been submitted to my old hometown newspaper, the Asheville Citizen-Times. I’ll let you all know if it is posted:
This is in response to the editorial by Nancy Robertson entitled: “Sees gay lifestyle as contradictory to Christianity†published January 04, 2008. As a gay man who was raised in Western North Carolina, I feel morally obligated to express my opinion.
It says a lot about Ms. Robertson that she would label herself a transplant (from “ever-tolerant†Jackson, Mississippi no less) only to find that she doesn’t care for the residents, and then have the blatant audacity to suggest that THEY should be the ones to relocate to another state.
It says even more about this person when she states: “I guess what these people think is that I should not be disgusted when I see them walking down the street holding hands and kissing in public.†(Well, now you know how we gays feel when we are subjected to the same behavior incessantly and on a daily basis.)I hope that she’ll be as quick to suggest the appropiate state where we may ship all of these heterosexuals off to. We will then name this state “Hooters”.
She continues: “Do they think we can’t help but think about what they do in private when we see them going as far as they can in public?†Pardon me? As a gay man, when I see a straight couple entangled in an awkward game of tonsil hockey, the last thing my mind does is imagine the two of them full-coitus. If Ms. Robertson sees two homosexuals kissing and her mind goes immediately to these two people having sex, then she is either coveting their sex lives or unable to restrain a filthy imagination. Either way, I will be praying for her. The Bible speaks often of such impure thoughts as hers, and the wages of such sin is death, after all.
But it says most about Ms. Robertson that she would classify herself as some sort of expert on God’s “natural†plan for the human race. Being that she hails from Jackson, Mississippi, she may recall that it wasn’t too long ago that her brothers and sisters of color were being lynched, hanged and murdered because people not unlike herself insisted that they were prophetic enough to know what GOD did and did not want.
No, my suggestion to Ms. Robertson is that if she doesn’t care for the city that she moved into, she is always more than welcome to return to Jackson.
Chad Pace
New York, NY
scorpguy1028
Perhaps when Gommorah (formerly Conn.) is up and running, they will annex R.I. as New Sodom ! We have Providence, Newport and Jamestown, and are a 40 minute drive from Boston!
With a Slew of Gays, and a Plethora of Humpy ,Ethnic ‘Str8’ men workin the Downlow, RI would be the Jewel of Gayland!
Fingers Crossed!
Forrest
Similar to Boulder or Madison, Asheville is a bright blue spot surrounded by a red sea. In Asheville’s case the surrounding mountain communities are steaming red, loathe us, and truly do see the city as Sodom. This letter writer is not the first with this type of commentary. We are talking ultra conservative here. Driving just outside city limits is equivalent to going over a political cliff. Cultural clashes can be intense and bashings occur now and then. The city overall is very welcoming but it’s a small town and you need to watch your back in the larger region.
jiminportlandoregon
Poor thing is a mess, bless her heart. I think it’s hilarious that she actually admitted that she imagines what they are doing in their bedrooms. Believe me, Nancy honey, I often imagine what two hot men I see on the street might be doing when they get to their bedroom. I go so far as to imagine myself in that very bedroom with them – because that is probably as far as I will ever get with them. Instead of intellectually condemning them to hell, why don’t you think about joining them? – at least in your mind – you might surprise yourself!
Charles J. Mueller
Dictionary.com defines “infesting” in the following manner:
1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: rats infesting the sewers; streets that were infested with drugs.
2. To live as a parasite in or on: livestock that were infested with tapeworms.
Nice. Rick Warren compares us to practitioners of incest, pedophiles and people who engage in beastiality.
Not this stupid cunt compares us to rats, drug dealers, parasites and tapeworms.
People who can conjure up these kind of images, must have terrible nightmares as night.
Charles J. Mueller
Not should read Now
Christina
@The Divine Grace: You rock. =)
Charles J. Mueller
@The Divine Grace:
I second Christina. Great letter.
Px
@hardmannyc: There are! I am originally from North Central Mississippi and I know plenty of homos that moved there after college. Thank jeebus I moved to NYC!
seitan-on-a-stick
Bruno, I am not condoning Nancy for her mental illness, just warning others including supposed responsible editors (cue: laugh!)
topblknavy
I think Nancy should check the paper a little more closely and she would find this little gem; http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009901060324.
An article about a fine upstanding heterosexual member of the community going to jail, maybe for life, for soliciting sex from an 11 year old girl. What part of heaven or which state is this monster going to, eh Nancy?
chuck
And this is the letter I submitted personally to Mr. Nancy Robertson.
Nancy Robertson
1268 Tunnel Road
Asheville, North Carolina
January 7, 2008
Dear Ms. Robertson,
In the Letters to the Editor section of the Asheville Citizen – Times you recently wrote that;
“I feel morally obligated to express my opinion. I am a transplant from Jackson, Miss., who is astounded by how many homosexuals have ‘infested’ this beautiful city. I just don’t know what the general population should do. Perhaps the solution would be to set aside a specific state of the union for them to inhabit – perhaps we should set up a new name for Connecticut and call it ‘Sodom’ or ‘Gomorrah.'”
Well, Nancy dear, I too feel morally obligated to express my opinion. I am a transplant from New York City who is astounded by how many bigoted and hateful, heterosexual homophobes like you have ‘infested’ this beautiful state. I just don’t know what the homosexual population should do. Perhaps the solution would be to set aside a specific state of the union for you to inhabit with like-minded people. Oh wait, I know just the place. It’s called Svalbard and it’s in the middle of the Artic Ocean…far enough away from everything so no one would have to be subject to or have to listen to your self-righteous homophobic rants.
Dictionary.com defines ‘infested’ in the following manner:
.v. in·fest·ed, in·fest·ing, in·fests
1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: rats infesting the sewers; streets that were infested with drugs.
2. To live as a parasite in or on: livestock that were infested with tapeworms.
Since LGBT people are not harming your children or killing them as the homophobic, hetero fag-bashers are, personally threatening you in any way, manner or form, being obnoxious on your front lawn, infesting your sewers or doing drugs on your front porch, and we are not living as parasites in your hair, on your body or invading your intestinal tract, I would say that the word ‘infesting’ is quite an over reach on your behalf.
It wouldn’t have surprised me in the least to hear you make some statement to the effect of employing some system for the ‘eradication’ of the ‘infestation’. ‘Banishing’ us to a special state with a name of it’s own came pretty close to it, however. There were people in Hitler’s 1935 Germany who felt much the same as you do when he wrote Paragraph 175 in the Third Reich Constitution. The ‘Final Solution’ followed closely behind.
And since homosexuals are definitely a minority, something like 7.5% of the total population of the U.S., they fail to meet the definition of an ‘infestation’ which is suggestive of numbers far in excess of morally, straight-laced bigots like you, many as you are. So, you are really being an overdramatic ‘drama queen’ when you employ such denigrating and dehumanizing terms to describe your fellow human beings.
And while we are on the topic of your ‘morality’, might I suggest that you take a little time out from your poison pen letters to also read your local newspaper now and then. Had you done so, you would have been aware of the article about a fine upstanding heterosexual member of the community, school teacher no less, going to jail, maybe for life, for soliciting sex from an 11 year old girl.
What part of heaven or which state is this monster going to, eh Nancy?
Charles J. Mueller
Tampa, FL
Brandon
Regarding the Letter to the Editor by one esteemed Nancy Robertson:
I feel logically obligated to express my opinion and explore the idea that as a pretty decent size area in North Carolina, these homosexuals have probably been there longer than you and that as the transplant, you are the “infestation” that is plaguing such a beautiful city. Using the term “general population” in an exclusive way is almost as disgusting to read. I’m sure the gays there use their own water fountains. Maybe Jackson, Miss. is calling you back?
I recall someone else in the history books having a “solution” that we just stick all of the people we don’t like in a camp… Did I say camp? I meant state… per your idea. That turned out quite well. We should get to work on that right away. They didn’t didn’t have flashy names like Sodam or Gomorrah but I guess Auschwitz just really rolled off the tounge well in those days.
I speak as a gay person who believes God’s “real” plan for the human race is for everyone to treat everyone as they wanted to be treated. I believe one of your fellows made a rule of that.
If you read your Bible a little more carefully Nancy, you would know why he created both male and females. He did so so your father could barter/sell you into slavery. Exodus 21:7
Morally yours as well,
Brandon
Brandon
Go Charles from Tampa!… I just tapped mine out quick… you win! 🙂
topblknavy
And what’s up with Charles from Tampa? You sorta’ lose credibility when you lift, almost verbatim, words someone else wrote… namely mine from the post right before yours. WTF?
Charles J. Mueller
@topblknavy:
Guilty as charged.
This is the offending phrase that I “borrowed” (lifted sounds oh so premeditated and criminal) from your commentary.
“What part of heaven or which state is this monster going to, eh Nancy?”
All other words in my letter to Ms Roberson were of my own compilation as you will note.
I mistakenly believed that I was paying you high honor, by borrowing your words. Obviously, I was wrong.
From Dictonary.com
plagiarism
Literary theft. Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer’s language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own. Copyright laws protect writers’ words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote.
Fortunately the letter I wrote to Ms Robertson has not yet been posted. I hasten to assure you, Mr. Topblknavy, author of the words I borrowed without your written permission, have been deleted from the letter to Ms. Robertson.
I also hereby acknowledge that your words, printed in this Queerty thread, should have been in quotation marks, with proper credit given to you as the author of them.
I proffer my sincerest apologies for any inconvenience or distress this may have caused you and trust that you will not deem it necessary to contact your legal people to commence a suit for literary theft. 😉
*Backs out of room sheepishly, bowing respectfully while doffing hat*
Charles J. Mueller
@Brandon:
Au Contraire, Monsieur. You post was a gem.
You have taken the art of “tongue in cheek” to yet a new level. lol
You “read” her beads deftly.
Russell Lewis
@Charles J. Mueller:
OK, OK, I guess we both could take a step back, away from the drama and the sarcasm (witty though it is). Apology accepted and I offer mine for jumping with both feet. Indeed, we would be better off directing our energies towards our common “enemy.” Not that i consider that boorish, uneducated woman a threat. You keep up the scathing commentary and use whatever words you feel are necessary Charles… May I call you Charles (you betcha’ by golly). I doff my cap respectfully back at you.
sparkle obama
it’s a freakin circle-jerk in here.
intinkwam
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terry wetherholt
There is no reason for you homophobes to be mean. I am a happy gay man with many straight friends.
Terry Wetherholt
Jon Hlutke
I am broke but I want to be in da movies. I am somewhat gay
Jon Hlutke
Jon Hlutke
Jon Hlutke say: suckim hard til I get a better job
jon hlutke
I WANNA COME OUT OF THE CLOSET BUT IM NOT SURE HOW ANY SUGGESTIONS?
Jon Hlutke
Jon Hlutke
John Hlutke still says SUCKIM HARD DICKS LONG TIME!
Captain Slappy
Thank God, in His wisdom, that He still no likey the suckers of “teh cawks”. Well, that and the more Gays push, the louder they get, the more NORMAL people they piss off, until eventually, and inevitably, they get stomped like mice shittin’ in the neighbors floor.
“Infestations” occur when a small minority doses out of proportionate damage to everything around it. Such as happily infesting each other with AIDS. Which is cool. Shortens any “long-term” problems associated with “long-term gayness”.
Then again, I am extremely ecstatic they haven’t figured out how to breed and make more. Wait! They won’t, they are GAY!
Woohoo! Do whatever you want kids, your segment will shortly….”disappear”. I guess breeding IS natural after all, huh?
Wait….I guess I AM ok with Gays! Hahaha!
jon hlutke
Jon Hlutke..sounds like we should MEAT!
I HAVE A BONE 2 PIC
jon hlutke
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