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Sudanese Youngster Writes to Reporter Ed Oliver

I would like to introduce you about the ongoing civil war in Sudan. The war displaced the entire region of Christian community. People keep going, not knowing where to go.

Some gone to neighbouring country.

Others remained and faced the challenge hoping that the God who create them will one time one day bring peace.

As land southern Sudan is blessing land having natural resources, while northern have none. As the result Government feel jealous and enforce the Islamic to the southerness with an interest to own the southerness resources. As religion southern people rejected the Islamic and war broke out. The

invading government [northern] part who control the power feel thirsty when missed a day to kills southerness. People die every day, week, month and years back dated since 1956 or even before that.

I believe, knowing the nature of problem will provide the solution. I am glad

to met you. I want you to convey the suffering of southern Sudanese to the international world and democracy leaders and take a look. Every thing in this world have a solution and we are part of world. I was displaced from the hand of my loving parents and joined the refuge life when I am eight years old. Through my life experience, I can tell war is bad business and good teacher to teach people.

It is out of a strange dream to be in this challenging life. It happened suddenly and

I was taken away from my loving parents. The world is beautiful place accepting and expecting for survival. Today I am a yes person, not like yesterday in the land my parents. I have choice. thanks.

God bless you.

I will keeps in touch with you.

- friend Dan

Bigotry in Sharon Causes Concern


Catholics Subject of Ridicule

I suppose political correctness in Massachusetts is now headed down the toilet. Don’t mock gays, blacks, Hispanics, Jews, or Muslims. But, what the hell, let’s nail the Christians, and especially the Catholics, who have this tired old belief that abortion is bad, being gay is not normal and Christianity is better than Islam.

Hey, remember who brought you here. Many Catholics died during wars to protect everyone’s freedom.

Gee, I wonder where the ACLU is? Perhaps they are busy with the NAMBLA case, assuring child predators that they have the right to ...

Just remember folks, liberals are not safe in a totalitarian state, even one that they attempt to create.

- Ron Conti
Oro Valley, AZ

Where’s Senator Kennedy?

Has anyone heard from Senator Ted Kennedy on this matter? He has been insulted with this bigotry as much as any other Catholic in his state and in this nation. He probably doesn’t even care that a public school district slapped him and his fellow Catholic constituents in the face.           

Sharon Public Schools will support diversity in anything devoid of moral direction and it looks as if it will tolerate insulting the people of Jesus Christ without blinking an eye.

Does this school have a “principle?”

Probably not. They wouldn’t know one if it slapped them in the face. 

- Kenneth R. Yagodinski
Bellevue, NE

Time Schools ‘Called on the Carpet’

It’s time our schools are called on the carpet for bashing Catholics and other Christians. It seems for those of us who call ourselves believers, any kind of insult is fair game. Particularly in light of the kid gloves being used on Muslims, it’s time our hypocritical countrymen/women had a few lawsuits tacked on their tails.

- Charlotte Vacano
Waynesboro, VA

Mass. has ‘Brains Broiled’

The native Californians figured out a long time ago that the people in Massachusetts have had their brains broiled and then deep-frozen. How dare you dump on any religion, let alone Catholics?

We know of no one that has done anything to you, but maybe that is the problem: they should have.

- J. Martin
Auburn, CA

‘Religious Bigotry’ Alive

Religious bigotry is alive and well in Massachusetts. It appears that prejudice against Catholics, so common in Massachusetts a hundred years ago, had simply gone underground. It also appears that the dominance of left-wing Lords of Tolerance (unless, of course, it’s somebody they hate) in the education establishment and in Massachusetts politics has emboldened these hate-filled hypocrites to come out of the sewers they’ve been hiding in.

After they’re done with Catholics, who’s next? Baptists? Methodists? Jews?

- Michael Oberndorf
Apache Junction, AZ

Bashing Shows Eroded Morals

The article I read about Catholic bashing at Sharon Schools is just one more example of our country’s continuing erosion of moral character. The excuse used by the board and teachers was lame at best. It certainly had to do with fear for their jobs rather than any heartfelt apologies.

Our children need direction from their teachers as well as their parents, as they spend a great deal of their formative years in their care as well. Much of liberal thought is devoid of moral direction. Liberal thought does stimulate ideas, but all ideas are not good ones and without a moral foundation, a good idea cannot be distinguished from a bad one. This is where our teachers should come in.

There is no question that the liberal-minded teachers of this school used their own beliefs in making the decision to applaud the outfits worn by those children.

There exists our problem. Our teachers today have grown up without proper direction or morals and therefore have nothing to pass along to those they teach. We, as a society, must turn this cycle around. I thought Sept.11 was a wake-up call to build character again in our country, but perhaps a few months time has led us back down the same old path of moral depravity.           

- Neal A. Arcuri
Boardman, Ohio

Bigots Are Not Funny

I want to commend you for running an article that deals with the bashing of the Catholic Church. I agree 100 percent with Mr. Doyle of the Catholic Action League. So many people think it’s funny to mock the Catholic Church, but they wouldn’t dare make fun of Judaism.

Catholics are partially to blame for this, because they all have a tendency to laugh at these jokes. This is one Catholic who won’t put up with it.

- Jill Fischer
Monroeville, PA 

‘Christian’ a Distasteful Word

The Executive Director of the Catholic Action League, C. J. Doyle, has characterized the incident as “an astonishingly crude insult to the Catholic religion, which betrays a callous contempt for the beliefs and sensibilities of Roman Catholics.”

Criticism of unjust, corrupt institutions through such costumes is a legitimate part of our political heritage. I suggest Mr. Doyle, and the world in general, would be far more offended by a public documentation of Catholic history.

Pope Innocent III murdered more Christians in a single day than the Roman Emperor Nero did in his entire life. What costume would Mr. Doyle approve to represent Pope Pius XII, who presided over the Catholic Adolph Hitler and predominantly Catholic German Army, yet lifted not a finger to stop the systematic torture and murder of millions of Jews and then smuggled tens of thousands of war criminals to safety through the Vatican “Rat Lines?” This is the man the current Pope wanted to make a saint!

The Lord Jesus Christ said that we would know false prophets by their fruits (deeds). If Catholics are really so offended by such characterizations, let them distance themselves from the unbiblical doctrines and from the worship of its merciless enforcers which have made “Christian” such a distasteful word.

- Robert L. Wombaugh
Harkers Island, NC

Sharon Teachers: Do Your Jobs

I just read the article in the Massachusetts News regarding the Sharon High School Halloween party incident. What the hell just happened? I mean, kids are going to be kids, and the concept of good taste doesn’t always sink in until they are almost out of college. 

But why didn’t the teachers do something? They need to be a symbol of authority in the schools where they teach.

Over and above the fact that I’m Catholic and extremely appalled by what happened, we need to look at another question here. Why aren’t the teachers doing their jobs? Yes, teach them math, science and English, but teach them right from wrong as well. 

What would have happened if a teenager had walked in there with his face painted black and claimed to be Al Jolson? Would something have been done about it, or would they have just laughed it off? And, yes, it is the same thing.

Regardless, when those in authority not only fail to put a stop to the actions of these students, but initially support said actions, they become part of the problem. They are promoting discrimination.

- Chuck Abraham
Noblesville, IN 

Catholics Second Class Citizens

If this were any other religious group being publicly mocked, it might qualify as a crime of hate, or, at the very least, discrimination.

Were this incident to concern people of color, you can rest assured that Jesse or big Al would be in the forefront spouting his indignation at such an unconstitutional act. But, after all, it’s just the Catholics. It seems that the Catholics have joined an ever-increasing group of second class citizens.

I wonder what, if anything, this portends for the future of America. I believe there is a saying that ends with, “And when they came for me, there was no one left to care.”

- William Trapp
Roswell, NM

Fathers Also Roiled


Gov. Swift Is Pathetic Hypocrite

In the Beacon Hill Beat (online), “Swift ‘Outs’ Running Mate,” Governor Swift and her running mate, Patrick Guerriero, “agreed to disagree.” That’s nice. 

But can someone important from our Massachusetts government tell heterosexual men and fathers, and the families and friends who support them, when men will be recognized as equal partners in raising children, or when a man and his child(ren) will constitute a family in the eyes of the state bureaucracy? If someone from on high cannot tell us when or if this will occur, can Swift and Guerriero truly “praise each other for recognizing the importance of fairness and equality in public policies?” 

Our Commonwealth, with the likes of Swift at the helm, is a pathetic hypocrisy, and our legislature and judiciary are light-years behind on this issue while numerous other “family” alternatives gain attention and recognition. 

- Mike Franco
State Co-Chair
The Fatherhood Coalition

Glad to Live in NH

I am glad that I live in New Hampshire. When lawyers from the Boston Bar Association are in conflict with the Massachusetts Bar Association and want even more unfairness in child support guidelines, I sit here and shake my head.

Where has the hysteria come from concerning the support of our children? Fathers are more important than a paycheck. So many fathers’ constitutional rights are taken away from them in the family courts that we all should be scared to death that other areas of our lives are in jeopardy.

I know how unfair the laws are in Massachusetts towards fathers. My brother lives on the Cape and when his wife abandoned him and their three small children, it took more than a year for the courts to finally realize she had no intent on coming back and to finally award him custody. It took over two years for the state to even go after the mother for child support. They did not even include any arrearages. I can only pray that the American people wake up and realize the injustices that are being done within our family courts.

As an outside observer from New Hampshire, I hope, in this case, that the Massachusetts Bar wins out over the zealous, unfair, greedy Boston Bar Association.

- Name Withheld
Newington, NH

Child Support System Is Unfair

I applaud your exposing the child support guidelines to the public. The women of today play the system. The court system has to do away with the $15,000 threshold guideline because it encourages women not to work full time. It undermines what they strived for in the beginning: equality.

My wife, for example, wouldn’t work full time; she quit when she reached $8,000 in order to receive almost $4,200 in tax returns. It paid for her to stay out of work.

Do away with the threshold or give it to the fathers as well. Twenty seven percent of my gross pay is outrageous, $158/wk for 1 child. Why should she work? It’s creating another society of unemployed people.

Please keep up the pressure on our gov’t. I know they want to hold fathers responsible, and to eliminate welfare, but they went overboard.

 - Joe Liquori
West Springfield

Being a Male Is Criminal in Courts

Yes, being a male is criminal in American family courts. In the middle of my family court experience of five years, a lawyer (who is not supposed to say bad things about judges) told me family courts act much like fascist Nazis. At the time, I thought his statement  might be a little extreme. After a false arrest and becoming the only dad to win on a custody decision in the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in 2000, I must now concede that “Nazi” is the correct term. “By the people” has now become “By the Judiciary,” as the family courts continue to operate with bias and no Constitution.

- Keith Trost
Hillsboro, WI

Fathers Considered ‘Billfolds’

Readers ought to be aware that fathers are just as capable of parenting as mothers are; they have just as much love and are as essential to the child and to the healthy development of the child. A closer assessment of what, in the eyes of the Commonwealth, constitutes so-called “child support” is being made. The Boston Bar Association is resisting any consideration that a father is anything other than a billfold. We can expect no less from a Bar affiliated with corporations that love it when more, more, more money is spent.

Angst breeds consumption. As a father myself, there is not a better way to create angst than to disregard the equal rights and equal responsibilities of each parent. One day I will get to see my kids.

- Robert Gartner
Houston, Texas

Mothers Pay Support Also

Re. Article entitled “Fathers See Rift Among Lawyers.” Whoever wrote this article has no idea about equal rights. Why does the author speak only about mothers who work and mothers who collect child support? The law is not written about mothers. I am currently a father in MA and my spouse pays support to me. Please, next time remember this is the year 2002 and not 1950; moms pay child support too.

- Daniel Deroche
Springfield

Children Without Both Parents Suffer

On January 14, 2001, CNN’s Crossfire program was interviewing the President of the National Organization for Women. She said a “new study shows that only one-in-five children are affected by divorce.” She clearly and intentionally implied that parents and children really don’t suffer from divorce.

It is an irrefutable, undeniable, and grounded statistical fact that children need fathers. Father-absence is the most destructive force affecting our children today. This is a glowing reality, reflected in the findings of hundreds of legitimate scientific studies. The decline of, and/or criminalization of, fatherhood are major forces behind many of the most disturbing problems that plague our country.

Here’s some authentic scientific data, which couldn’t be more conclusive.

Fatherless homes account for:

- 63% of youth suicides.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Census)

- 71% of pregnant teenagers.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services)

- 90% of all homeless and runaway children.
(US Dept. of Health and Human Services)

- 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions.
(US Dept. of Justice, Special Report Sept. 1988)

- 85% of all adolescents with behavior disorders.
(Center for Disease Control)

- 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger.
(Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14 1978)

- 71% of all high school dropouts.
(National Principals Report on the state of high schools)

- 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers.
(Rainbows for all God’s children)

- 85% of all youths sitting in prisons.
(Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)

Woman is the gender that is supposedly the more emotional, caring, and sensitive gender of us. I’m a man, yet I understand the aching heart of a child yearning for the love of their parents, and for the normalcy and security of “family.” How can so many women band together and have such a chilling and selfish disregard for even their own children? And how can American media, in all good conscience, continue to present such a perspective like that of the National Organization of Women, and to portray that perspective as normal and acceptable? Does the American media have any heart and conscience?

- Leonard Misner, author
In The Children’s Best Interest
Waukegan, IL

Globe Fears Link to Drugs/Domestic Violence

One very important matter remains unreported: the link between substance abuse, including alcohol, and domestic violence.

The women’s movement denies it because if it proves to be true, it will put their movement out of business. The Globe is afraid that readers will discover that the “Framingham 16” (including victims) all had familiarity with substances and their abuse.

Whether alcohol is an accelerant or catalyst may not be understood, but we all know that it is present in most domestic violence cases, in both sexes and all persuasions.

Chapter 209A has destroyed the courts and created a war between the sexes.

- Milton H. Raphaelson
Sturbridge

Molestation Should be Taken Seriously


Globe Hides that Teachers Union Undermines Values

In your remarks regarding the Globe article, “Accusations swirl on petition tactics” (Boston Globe, 1/9/02), you note that the chief person who is determined to undermine and destroy the legality of the marriage petition is both the chief lobbyist for the Mass. Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus (MGLPC) and a chief lobbyist for the MA Teachers Assoc. (MTA): Arline Isaacson. You also note that the Globe does not make this fact clear. I maintain that the Globe is being secretive about this fact.

If parents were aware that Isaacson is using the power of the MGLPC together with that of the MTA to get huge amounts of money into public schools in order to get her message imprinted upon the minds and hearts of our school-age children, perhaps these parents would be able to prevent this damage from being done.

Arline Isaacson has been instrumental in procuring $800,000 to be added to the $1.5 million of our tax money to be used to indoctrinate school children in the belief that same-sex sex acts are approved, and that those who engage in these acts should have the same legal rights as a man and a woman who are legally married. Therefore, these children are being taught that same-sex sex acts outside of marriage are good and should be advocated in the same way that the marital acts of a married couple (one male and one female) are advocated.

These children are therefore not told that they should wait until they are married before they engage in sex acts that have been, up to now, reserved for married couples. If these children act upon this message, they will think that it is perfectly acceptable for them to engage other children in these acts.

To me, this is encouraging a form of child abuse wherein children will use one another for sexual exploitation. Parents will have no right to object and if they do object, they will be labeled “homophobic.” But the Globe editors think this kind of advocacy is perfectly fine.

They have known about Isaacson’s advocacy under the powerful umbrella of the MGLPC and the MTA for many years. But they and the MTA leaders want to keep this linkage secret. Therefore, parents and taxpayers are deceived.

- Alice Slattery
Framingham

Cardinal Law Should Be Tried

I read with great interest James Carroll’s article, “Priest Victims Victimized Twice,” in the Boston Globe. Interesting how he uses the term “cult of secrecy” a few times in describing the absolute abuse of power an established mainstream religion like the Catholic Church used to hide its mishandling of this sad affair.

Either this matter gets handled fairly and the parties involved, which would include Cardinal Law and others who did everything to protect Father John Geoghan,  be brought to justice, or you hang up the scales of justice.

You cannot protect one religion. It’s ironic that in another part of the Globe the same day, it mentions that the authorities are trying to find out where supposed “cult” member Rebecca Corneau has left her supposed newborn baby and to take legal action to take this latest child away. The article speaks of how “a court can intervene to protect children from possible neglect when there have been prior incidents of neglect.”

I’m wondering: Who is the worse cult here? It seems that the Catholic Church’s conduct seems to be a hundredfold worse than what this Attleboro sect has done. Hundreds of lives have been neglected and damaged by the Catholic Church’s “cult of secrecy” and it’s time that the law treats this case equally.

- Joseph Rizoli
Framingham

Lost Respect for Cardinal

I believe in the teachings of the Catholic Church. I used to have the utmost respect for Cardinal Law. But he can no longer lead (I wouldn’t want my picture with him). Nobody would have criticized him for defrocking a child molester, especially a repeat offender.

- Robert Holmes 

Psychiatry: Undermining the Catholic Church

Catholic Church leadership foolishly listened to psychiatrists for advice and “help” in handling alleged pedophile priest John Geoghan. They followed the advice of these psychiatrists who said he was cured of pedophilia (four times). Now the Church is under heavy attack for taking advice from these frauds.

Fifty percent of psychiatrists surveyed are atheist, while 90% of psychologists claim to be either atheist or agnostic, which makes sense, as they are trained to believe that man isn’t spiritual, but a stimulus-response animal with no will of his own. Isn’t it bizarre that all Catholic priests must study the anti-religious subject of psychology as part of their training?

For their own survival, it’s time that Catholics and other religions stick by their own doctrine and cast aside the work of these incompetent, anti-religious, baby-drugging, electro-shocking charlatans in white coats.

- Kevin Hall
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Somerville

MassNews Is Sometimes Loved


Why Are Churches Silent on Social Issues?

While Mass News has done a great job in exposing, for example, DSS, there is one area that has received little coverage. Little or no attention has been given to religious organizations that denounce publicly the social evils in this state.

For example, when have we heard the leading cleric in this state, Cardinal Bernard Law, come out forcefully against the DSS attack on families (and he claims to be pro-life) or the radical homosexual agenda?

I think that is it long overdue that Mass News takes on the religious organizations of this state forcefully (inside a velvet glove) for their silence.

- Neil F. Dunn
Danvers

Editor’s Comment: It is has been a major disappointment to see almost all of the churches and temples hunkered down in Massachusetts, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox. Hopefully, they will begin to see that they must be a part of any change before we can counter our secular society. We have reported two stories about the failure of the Catholic church to do anything at Boston College when a Unitarian was appointed to head the department that teaches undergraduate theology students. We should do more in this area. If you get us more subscribers to hire more writers, we shall. We need your help!

Get Off the Pot

I am getting quite tired of the anti-marijuana babble presented in your otherwise fine publication. Let’s cut to the chase: How many people has marijuana killed or damaged compared to alcohol or tobacco?

Such statistics would be a powerful argument to support your case against the plant.

Logic demands that if the latter substances cause more harm to public health, you would be advocating the prohibition of tobacco and alcohol. I do not see this in MassNews. 

As for the argument that elements of pot are stored in the user’s system, the same can be said for tobacco. On the other hand, cocaine and heroin do not remain in the user’s system. Does this make you feel better about the use of these substances?

We do not need a nanny-government, although children should continue to be protected from all recreational drugs.

- Henry Szubzda
N. Billerica

Editor’s Comment: We’ve written major pieces on both sides of this issue, with a full libertarian comment by Prof. Jeffrey A. Miron of Boston University. As we have said many times, there could be an intelligent discussion about whether we should continue to criminalize its use; but in our opinion, there can be no such discussion that it is harmless. That is what the state’s Libertarian Party appears to believe every year when it participates in the Pot Rally on Boston Common – with many children present.

MassNews a ‘Sad Waste’

I have just reviewed a few back issues of the Massachusetts News. I conclude that your paper’s sole purpose and editorial mission is the elimination of homosexuals and homosexuality from our society. I am surprised that anyone could make hatred and discrimination against other human beings their life’s work and still think that they are not reprehensible in the eyes of God. At any rate, it seems like a sad waste of a life’s work.

- James MacPherson
Boston

Editor’s Comment: We would appreciate any indication you can find that we seek to eliminate homosexuals from our society. We would like to eliminate homosexuality, but we all know this will never happen in this imperfect world. We would also like to eliminate smoking from our society, but we have no desire to eliminate smokers. If we can help to lower the molestation of children, including teenagers, we will be happy. 

Thanks for ‘Courage’

I worked on the drive to get our state income taxes reduced back to the rate before it was “temporarily” raised. I know how hard it can be to get enough signatures, and how many challenges you face. And of course, I know how radical the homosexual lobby can be. 

I want to thank you for your courage to stand up against same sex “marriages.” It is refreshing to see a newspaper with courage go against liberalism and what liberals consider “tolerance.” I want to say I am not against homosexuals as individuals; they can make their own choices and they should not be attacked or harmed in any way. I am against the sin of the homosexual act and the attempt to legitimize it as an acceptable behavior.

Marriage is a very sacred union and needs to be seen that way, or else we are in very serious trouble. Divorce has decimated our families. Unless we change the way society values marriage and the commitment two people make to one another and to God, we will continue down the path of destruction and despair, while the real victims are our children.

- Dennis Palmer
Bellingham

Thank You

Thank you for your support of the American family.

- John F. Wells
Russell, KS

Other Interesting Thoughts


Jackson, Sharpton are Opportunists

The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are mere opportunists. I can’t believe that Harvard would buckle down to the demands of Jackson and Sharpton as buoyed by the race-baiting Boston Globe.

Isn’t it clear that most blacks are embarrassed by the raising of the limbo stick for them when it comes to education? The artificial wedge of “diversity,” as it’s called, is a waste of precious resources. It is unfair to qualified candidates for the school.

I wish that college students would be accepted by their scholarly credentials without racial clues. Entrance exams should be given via code names as private as one’s ATM password. Let’s really level the playing field. Only then will the deserving students have equal self-respect.

I think it’s time for assignment editors of television news and desperate newspapers like the Globe to agree not to fuel the circus performances of Jackson and Sharpton.

These gentlemen have built their careers on bigotry and division. As long as there are media events, they will polarize and prompt victimhood and hatred from both sides.

- Russell Dodworth

Republicans Fractured

The bigger “coming out” party needs to be held for the reactionary fundamentalists, formerly posing as Republicans, who would rather vote for an anti-abortion socialist than for a Libertarian who thinks Big Brother has no business in people’s bedrooms or their wallets. How Massachusetts Republicans have managed to fracture into extremes of the loony left and radical right is beyond belief. 

- Christopher Burian
Waltham

Gun Regulations Are a Threat

In a report filed by Mike Yacino, head of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) on January 9, 2002, allegations of unethical behavior and regulatory fraud were leveled against the Attorney General’s office over the far-reaching regulations placed on gun manufacturers and dealers in the state.

Among these regulations are requirements that firearms shipped to or sold in the state must have certain “child proof” features.

GOAL’s report makes several startling revelations about the questionable behavior and practices in ramming these ill-conceived regulations through and around the regulatory and legislative processes. The report also documents several memos that clearly show that the office of Attorney General Luther Scott Harshbarger was less concerned about solving a perceived problem than simply banning non-defective handguns without legislative process or support. 

The full report is available at: http://www.goal.org/fraud/report.htm.

- William Dutton
Pembroke

DSS ‘Ruining Families’

I am currently going through a situation with DSS similar to what I have read about in MassNews. Someone anonymously reported me and my husband, and when we got into an argument, DSS declared that it was domestic violence. DSS also went against me when I wouldn’t take a restraining order out.

It is ridiculous what these people get away with. They are abusing our children and ruining families. I love my children and am fighting to get them back.

- Dawn Lynch
Effingham, SC

Anthony Lewis Is Troubled by Extremist Ideology

I agree. Mr. Lewis appears to allow good judgment and fairness to become clouded by his extremist liberal ideology.  He seems to be a leftist ideologue, not concerned with publicly addressing or refraining from apparent conflicts of interests.              

Considering that most of the detainee’s time in incarceration was during the Clinton administration, it makes Lewis look a bit, well, goofy to be assailing Mr. Ashcroft.  But then President Clinton was a liberal Democrat, while Mr. Ashcroft works within a more conservative Republican administration.              

Were the circumstances regarding the deportation identical, but happening on the watch of liberal Democrats, Lewis might, predictably, be singing another tune, or be altogether silent on the matter.    

- Michael P. Cameron
Atlanta, GA

A Friend in TV Land            

Unfortunately, the views of your paper, not being politically correct, are underrepresented. However, you should be aware that we have friends out there in TV land.

On a recent “Law and Order Special Victims Unit,” an episode was devoted to a case of male rape. Not only was this totally non-p.c., but also the female rapists were the strident, brash, holier-than-thou feminists that caused women such as myself to drop out of the feminist movement years ago.

The victim was no saint, an issue used only to point out unfairness in trials regarding any rape victims. The program was graphic in description, but a learning experience definitely (that a man who is raped can be stimulated was just one fact brought out).            

Frequently, “Law and Order,” in all its three versions, deals with situations no other program will touch. Frequently they are based on true situations. This program is constantly nominated for awards but never earns what it deserves. Please watch the shows, note the sponsors, and when it’s appropriate, write the producers or sponsors. We know we can do plenty with boycotts and negative letters. We can accomplish even more with positive publicity.            

- Annie Guenther
Roslindale

Sexual Habits Should be Private

I’d rather not be “aware” of anyone’s sexual habits, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual. What does the word “aware” actually mean? I am aware that everybody in this world defecates. Should we have a special day for defecation awareness?

I’m convinced that the word “aware” is a backdoor term for indoctrination of an ideology or an acceptance of a certain behavior. Do these homosexuals really think that people aren’t aware that homosexuality exists?

Do we really need a special day for this private activity to be slammed in our faces, and for us to either accept it or be called a bigot or a homophobe?

- Sean
Feeding Hi

 

 

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