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Having written Opinion articles for Broadside let me inform all of those who don't know that Broadside does often create titles that are more PC than what the Opinion Columnist wants. This is a newspaper. If you do not agree with what is being written in the paper, write your own paper, or better yet join the paper and write columns every week. If you ask the Right the paper is too far to the left, if you ask the Left the paper is too far to the right. Gryboski wrote a column that was researched and while it would be nice for him to have had five sheets with which to present his arguement fully, the paper only gave him several paragraphs to work with. This is college and nobody reading this paper is 10 years old anymore. Grow up. Broadside was right to print Gryboski's column and to not do so would have been censorship. If you do not like what Gryboski wrote than write a counterpoint arguement.
Broadside simply wanted to
Broadside simply wanted to provoke, not enlighten or inform.
Printing "Homosexuality is a Mental Illness" is no different from printing garbage like "Judaism is Sinful" or "Women are Mentality Inferior".
Agreed
Broadside should be held accountable for what they did. The article is baseless and does not offer a solution for his proposition on homosexuality being a mental disorder. This, to me, is identical to your allegations, masonstudent, and to concepts such as scientific racism (such as the book The Bell Curve and IQ differentiation based on race/ethnicity).
Broadside also did not offer a well-prepared rebuttal from Pride Alliance and/or defenders of the LGBT and that gives me the feeling that they are biased on the issue.
Agree
Printing opinions is their right but they should consider what is being said and how. The article was just to stir up controversy rather than present informed discussion on controversial topics. The same could have been said without being as offensive if the guy had some kind of authority or even reasonable support. Instead he and Broadside just seem inane and unreliable.
I agree with you on one point
The headline was written to provoke. There are so many other headlines that would have been better and would have represented the article as a whole better.
As fo printing the article, it is an opinion peice so I think it would have been hard to justify NOT printing the article...but the headline is what really made Broadside look the worst.