LETTER: Students’ letters annoying

To the editor:

I usually try and avoid reading the letters to the editor because reading lettersfrom people who think they know what they’re talking about when they actuallydon’t makes me mad. However, today I slipped and stole a glance. The fact thatit was Friday the 13th should’ve been warning, but curiosity killed the cat.

To start off, Ryan Beck’s comparison of left-handedness and homosexuality is absurd. Left-handed people don’t need to march in the streets or celebrate their left-handedness because left-handed people are not discriminated against or called names or attacked or ignored. I know because I am left-handed. That’s right, I’m coming out of the closet; I’m a southpaw! However, this does happen to homosexuals; I know because I have friends that are homosexual. I wish the GLBT community didn’t need to have parades or a Gay Pride Day or even worry about what other people think of them based on their sexual preference, but there is a need because of the prejudice.

Secondly, Peter Griffin’s letter was also absurd. Will someone tell my why people continue to bring religion into the issue of gay rights when religion has no place in the discussion at all. I understand why most religions do not accept homosexuality and see it as a sin, even though I don’t agree. But this is a political issue. The GLBT community isn’t fighting for equal rights in religions or churches or temples or mosques, but as citizens of a democratic nation. The problem is that the government is saying that two consenting adults cannot get married and have all of the rights heterosexual couples have. The government shouldn’t have that right. I understand that we elect the officials that are in the government (sort of), but when we agree with their discriminating ideals we are forcing our religion on others. So, leave religion out of it. And I’m not even going to comment on Eric Dinger’s ‘Inappropriate Poetics’ letter.

Ben Johnson