Originally posted on Oct. 13, 2006.

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The following is a letter to the editors at the Branding Iron, the campus nwespaper at the University of Wyoming. My comments on the situation follow...

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Ms. Humphrey has done it again.

If the BI wanted to prove that it is in the camp of the far Left, Ms. Humphrey has provided ample proof. Her latest waste of ink goes on about diversity and the beliefs of other groups of people, and how the Kinsey Sicks production represents the University of Wyoming because there are people whose sexual tendencies differ from the norm.

But what about the "norm" for Wyoming? Unlike what Hollywood and the Wyoming Tourism Board might have you think, Brokeback Mountain does not even come close to representing the culture of Wyoming, and the culture of this state is one of the reasons students come to Laramie for higher education.

What is wrong with presenting Conservative, or even simply mainstream culture at UW, Ms. Humphrey? Why must everything that is anti-American, anti- Christian, anti-White, and anti-male be extolled praised, and pushed by the BI and Ms. Humphrey in particular? What about whose who happen to BE Christian, white, male, or those who happen to support our President, and his Iraq policies? Why does the BI neglect this segment of our culture?

John Brengman
UW alumni
2004 graduate, History BA

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Now, one thing I forgot to put in this letter is that I don't have any problem with diversity. It is a valuable lesson that must be learned before young people are confronted by it in the "real world".

However, to say that a trans-gendered performance such as Kinsey Sicks represents the University of Wyoming, or this state in general not only ignores the true culture of the state of Wyoming, but it offends a LOT of people, both on and off the campus. If Ms. Humphrey was talking about the culture of San Francisco, or Berkeley, or Columbia University, perhaps she would be correct in saying that a trans-gendered performance where one man gropes the breasts of another man (dressed up as a woman) represents the mainstream of thought and culture.

Such a thing is far from the mainstream of thought and culture in Wyoming. Recent history in this very city is an example of just how that is not the case, and if the man being groped in the picture presented on the front page of the Branding Iron on October 10th were a woman, I doubt Ms. Humphrey would have written such a glowing commentary. Just as at the same time, Ms. Humphrey feels she can be as anti-Christian, and anti-Bush as she pleases, but she doesn't say a damned thing about the values that most Americans hold dear. She has proven herself to be a real Liberalista. Once again, if the picture on the front page of the BI had been of a man groping a woman, I doubt Ms. Humphrey would have praised it as trans-gendered expression within the context of "art".

But why not? If the extreme homosexual "culture" is to be praised, why not write an editorial supporting the groping of women? My letter to the BI was meant to support the REAL mainstream in society, but this article is meant to suggest not only that, but that the other extreme is also possible. As George Carlin once said, "I think rape is hilarious."

My point is that while we have the right of freedom of speech, and that freedom is expressed at the risk of offending others, there are two lines that have to be watched. The BI crossed the first line when Ms. Humphrey extolled the virtues of the gay lifestyle...once again showing her Liberalista slant. The BI crossed the second line by publishing a photo of an act that would be grounds for disciplinary measures from the university, and criminal charges from the police had it not been within the context of "art".

Ms. Humphrey needs to wake up and realize that she's not in New York City or San Francisco.

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John B.
Blog Guy

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