Some Opinions Are Worthless and Should Be Treated as Such
4 min readFeb 22, 2021
The hate mail was delivered on pink paper because the sender thought I was gay, so it would offend me.
As a newspaper reporter for The Chronicle in Willimantic, Connecticut in 2005, I led a series on the newly legalized “civil unions” in the state for gay and lesbian couples. Connecticut was one of the first states to move in that direction, years before gay…