Who cares if a faggot dies?

Today's LA Times has an interesting and certain to be controversial op-ed from Larry Kramer.

"I think your hate is evil."

What do we do to you that is so awful? Why do you feel compelled to come after us with such frightful energy? Does this somehow make you feel safer and legitimate? What possible harm comes to you if we marry, or are taxed just like you, or are protected from assault by laws that say it is morally wrong to assault people out of hatred? The reasons always offered are religious ones, but certainly they are not based on the love all religions proclaim.

Larry Kramer, the acclaimed author and activist leader*, is calling you straights to account for your hatred, your tolerance of hatred, your apathy. Do you have any answers for him?

*The Los Angeles Times described Kramer in the subheading as, "An aging 72-year-old gay man" who "isn't hopeful about the future." I think he deserves better than this. Unless he wrote the subheading himself.