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Letter: Editorial skips deeds of gays and lesbians
Op-Ed · April 23, 2015
Your April 2 editorial, “Think of West Branch Christians” seemed to imply that only “non-Christians” oppose “Religious Freedom” laws while “Christians” support them.
As a matter of demographics, isn’t it more likely that those who oppose so-called “religious-Freedom” laws are overwhelmingly Christian and heterosexual? I write this as a nonbeliever and as a gay man (in fact, most gays and lesbians I know are Christian). Best of all, I’d wager that what most unites opponents of these “religious freedom” laws is a strong belief in our Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Huge numbers of Christians (and Jews and Muslims and agnostics and atheists) oppose the government providing sanctuary for secular discrimination purportedly based on “faith.”
Lastly, your editorial urged readers to consider great deeds of local churches, but abandoned any reciprocal list of compassionate acts of those deemed “non-Christian” that “Christians” might contemplate. I’d have thought the obvious example would note the legions of individuals who dared to hold, kiss, and comfort the dying, disabled and shunned when the AIDS plague commenced. Many of those caregivers were (and are) gay and lesbian citizens – sons and daughters, brothers and sisters.
They number among those who ask no more than to be treated like every other person in secular dealings.
Treating others as you would like to be treated. Now where might we have heard that before?
David Chan Hemingway
St. Louis, Mo.
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