The ACLU rightfully defended the Nazis' and KKK's right to march against a government refusal to give them a permit. The ACLU would not defend anyone's right to be published on your opinion page, unless your newspaper were an organ of government. True, you have a right to disseminate his hatred. Other readers and I just think you acted shamefully and irresponsibly. You were under no constitutional obligation to disseminate his hatred.
Men get away with murder in many states by simply accusing their gay victims of making a pass.
The kind of inflammatory, accusatory rhetoric you chose to disseminate serves to goad bigots like the man who walked into a Virginia bar this past weekend and murdered an innocent gay man. And it is in this atmosphere that you choose to publish the poisonous garbage that feeds that hatred and is consuming the lives of innocent people in this country right now. I believe you that your intentions were not hateful. But others pay for your ignorance and insensitivity. That is true as long as people vote their fears instead of their conscience.