Up And Down (2012)
“I grabbed my iPad while I was still horizontal and did a Google News search on “Landon Percival” for the previous twenty-four hours. Twelve pages of news hits came back from as far away as Melbourne and Moscow. Every single one of the stories recounted the now infamous lesbian question. About half the stories included quotations from others critical of Phillip Lundrigan for asking in the first place. Spokespersons for gay and lesbian rights organizations in Canada and the U.S. were all over the... story. But at least a third of the stories featured vitriol from the anti-gay movement and hard-core right-wing Christian groups. In several stories I was pleased to see quotations supporting Landon from my former minister. Even though the story was less than twenty-four hours old, many newspapers ran editorials favouring or denouncing Landon’s status as a citizen astronaut. As one might expect, there was a certain ideological geography to the editorials. Starting in Canada, they were mostly, though not exclusively, supportive of Landon.MoreLess
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