Letter: What next - television celebrating drug addiction?

Thursday, May 8, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

Isn't it funny that, not too many years ago, being gay was something kept away from family and friends? Now, the nation celebrates the "coming out" of a celebrity with an hour of prime-time television. What a sorry spectacle for children, who are vulnerable to such blatant suggestions that it's OK to live with and love someone of the same sex.

A reporter even had the the audacity to ask Ellen if she and her partner planned on having children -- as Rosie does even though she is afraid to "come out." I guess the next thing will be a national TV celebration when a star informs us he/she is a drug addict and plans to continue to be one.

Hartley Ashe

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