With rhetoric reaching the highest of intensity levels prior to the marriage equality referendum vote on Friday In Ireland, some conservative homophobic folks have gone off the deep end. Take for instance this example of the hate mail that a lesbian journalist in Ireland has received and posted to her twitter account. We get homophobia, misogyny, and racism in one short piece of hate mail/trash. It's horrific and disgusting, and it looks like something one of our American fundamentalist bigots would send. Telling someone that G-d caused their cancer (for any reason) is absolutely unconscionable. I just don't know what else to say about it - just shaking my head in disgust.
Una Mullally, a journalist for the Irish Times, received the following hate mail.
If you're unable to read it, it reads:
“I was so sorry to hear about your cancer but maybe it is the will of God.
“After all you have been relentlessly pushing the twisted idea of gay marriage which would destroy the family as we know it and ruin the lives of generations of innocent children victimised by the narcissism of their mammys or two daddys.
“And how do two gays have children in the first place, if not by artificial means that make a mockery of natural relationships?
“My advice is to accept that you are both homosexual and not very pretty, as there are worse fates; you might be black for instance.
“And stop preaching to people who may have been around a lot longer than you and have more common sense in their little finger than you have in that poor muddled ugly head of yours. Frankly if I looked like you I would plead with the editor not to publish my photo.”
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Pink News
In one of her tweets, she says that this is not even the worst or most hateful piece of mail that she has received.