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12.04.2009 6:37 pm

A gut feeling is not a reason to discriminate

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

To the Editor:

Who is hurt by gay marriage? Certainly, denying thousands of loving couples the opportunity to share a hospital bedside, health insurance, and tax benefits causes great pain and suffering, but who suffers if we extend these rights to…

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10.16.2009 4:50 pm

Campbell blames the victim when arguing against expanded hate crime law

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Colleen Campbell in Thursday’s paper (10-15) laments the creation of “another protected class of victims”…who as citizens are now “more equal than others.” She is referring to the broadening of the federal definition of hate crimes to include crimes committed…

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09.03.2009 5:23 pm

Modern people think like their medieval ancestors

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The story, “New Rift may shift Lutherans,” (August 30) reveals the folly of religion. While the religious bicker about the ramblings of ancient people who had no science (I refer to the collection of writings known as the Bible), massive…

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05.07.2009 6:18 pm

How about privacy in the workplace?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In William Donius’ article, “Make the workplace an inclusive culture,” he refers to “. . . a mostly invisible but significant minority present in workplaces across the country.”  He refers to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered group who .…

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05.06.2009 6:13 pm

Religion has not always been on the right side of rights issues

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Colleen Carroll Campbell of the Post Dispatch calls gays “intolerant” because they won’t roll over and continue to allow the denial of their rights. 

She asserts that gays evoke religious prejudice when they reveal to the public the hateful and…

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05.06.2009 6:11 pm

Refusing to recognize the rights of a minority population is not tolerance

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Colleen Carroll Campbell (4/30/09) identifies a few instances in which gay-rights activists blogged some mean things about Miss California or blacklisted financial contributors to that state’s Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. Perhaps she needs to be reminded that thousands…

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05.06.2009 6:09 pm

Using religion as a drumbeat for fear and intolerance

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The letter from Rev. Brian W. Harrison indeed raises a level of concern or fear.  It’s scary to think this man preaches his hate-mongering ignorance from a pulpit once a week or more.  No one should deny him his right…

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05.05.2009 4:54 pm

Appealing to gullibility to rail against same-sex marriage

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This is in response to Rev. Harrison’s letter in the May 4th “Letters from our Readers” segment.  In his letter, Harrison attempts to make the case that legalizing gay marriage would be discrimination against “orthodox believers”.  I know that clergy,…

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02.18.2009 3:44 pm

How the Oklahoma Legislature shamed the Missouri Legislature

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Just when it appeared that Ron Richard , Republican Speaker of the Missouri House was standing morally tall against offensiveness he was made to seem like a shifty back peddler by members of the Oklahoma Legislature willing to unapologetically stand…

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01.07.2009 4:52 pm

There is a secular case against same-gender marriage

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tuesday’s letter entitled “What were they thinking” asked the question “Is there not a logical, secular case for opposition to same-sex marriage….? Yes, there is. We use words to define things. For thousands of years the word marriage defined the…

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