These letters were published in the Green Bay Press Gazette. As far as I know, the copyright stays with me, having written the letters, so here they are.

February 2004

I guess that homosexuals, like women and blacks, are second-class citizens who don't deserve the same rights and privileges as the rest of us. It would be unbiblical to permit them equal rights and privileges, such as same-sex marriage.

But according to the First Amendment, stating in part, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ... " that would mean according to the Bill of Rights, my argument about homosexual marriage being unbiblical has no ground.

But women and blacks are still second-class citizens! Women have little intelligence and blacks are good for nothing more than slave labor, right? But, oops! There was another amendment to the Bill of Rights! The 13th amendment (1865) abolished slavery! The 15th amendment (1869) gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race. Women gained the right to vote with the passing of the 19th amendment (1920). And in 1954, the Jim Crow, or Separate but Equal laws, were declared unconstitutional by Brown vs. Board of Education.

America - you were wrong before and you are wrong again! Homosexuals deserve the same rights and privileges as "straight" people - that means the right to get married to the person they love.

March 2004

Let's amend the U.S. and Wisconsin constitutions. We'll feel better about lawfully discriminating against gays and lesbians. Only straight people can preserve the sanctity of marriage!

We'll continue to protect the sanctity of marriage by reading the local "Entertainer" which regularly displays ads reading "Married wo/man seeks afternoon play partner! Discretion a must!"

We could live by the example of Green Bay's recent murder-suicide. The husband decided to protect the sanctity of his marriage with death. His wife wasn't the first woman to die by her husband's hand.

Go turn on the TV, radio, or go to the movies. You're sure to see how straight people are preserving the sanctity of marriage every day. The daytime soaps have been doing it for decades by depicting adultery, domestic violence, repeat marriages and quick divorces.

Look at all the divorces in the paper and count how many of those marriages lasted less than ten, five, even one year. I wonder what those obviously straight couples did to preserve the sanctity of their marriages.

Allowing gay couples to marry cannot possibly threaten the sanctity of marriage. We've already done it! Let gays and lesbians marry - maybe their marriages could teach the rest of us something.

6 May 2004

How many of us publicly declare what we do in the bedroom? Does our entire lifestyle center on our sexuality? Is the entirety of who we are dictated by our sexual preferences?

The average couple spends 7 minutes, twice a week, in a sexual encounter. Tell me that for less than 15 minutes a week, the “homosexual lifestyle” is perverse.

Who we kiss goodbye in the morning doesn't make a difference in whether or not we have to go to work, earn a living, shop for groceries and cook dinner. It doesn't make a difference in deciding whose parents we're going to for Thanksgiving or budgeting for a vacation or new air conditioner.

Rev. Steven Graham said that “Homosexuals are adopting children and placing them into an environment of confused gender roles.” Are straight couples jumping at the chance to provide, through adoption, stability, continuity of love and discipline to all the children being bounced from one foster home to the next? When “straight” people abuse their children and abort their babies, who’s better? Not all straight couples are bad parents; not all gay couples want to be parents.

Who are any of us the claim the moral high ground?