Indeed! And one wonders (a lot) about Compassion's sincerity on this issue. Did you know that they were kicked out of India a few years ago for proselytizing Christianity? Let's not pretend Compassion exists for the primary purpose of helping poor people.

They're Christian missionaries, colonialists from the U.S. who exist to spread the tenets of evangelical Christianity, and they don't hide that. That's why they were ordered out of India.

So, ask yourself this: What do you think would have happened if you wrote a letter expressing your support for protecting albino people?

Do you think the evangelical Christians who run Compassion would have refused to deliver it? I don't think so. Yet, mistreatment of people with albinism is a big problem in parts of Africa including Uganda.

You wrote a letter to an adult expressing your personal opinion about something.

The idea that expressing your personal opinion could have put anyone else in danger is ... a far reach at best.

You know, I get so tired —bone weary, really — of us queer people being treated by Christians as special exemptions to expectations of human decency and genuine compassion.

If the evangelical Christians who run Compassion were truly decent people, they would be working to end the terrible persecutions and mistreatment of queer people that Christian missionaries brought to Africa.

But as you know, most evangelical Christians are fiercely determined to keep treating us as badly as they can. It seems incredibly important to them, as a religious principle, to hurt us.

Obviously, you cannot take Compassion at their word. You must consider that they are being insincere. You must consider that evangelical Christians in the United States and elsewhere are funding efforts in Africa to pass more severe laws to imprison and even execute queer people.

Should anyone ever be silent about that?

I don't know, but the world was not silent about apartheid in South Africa. And nobody condemned the world for being colonial by fighting to stop racism in South Africa.

Nobody said, "Be quiet." Nobody said "respect the culture."

Just like nobody says "respect the culture" regarding albinism.

What should you do personally? Well, I might suggest exploring the many charitable efforts available that are not rooted in a religion determined to hurt queer people.

Then you could at least understand their sincerity was not in question.