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Freedom of speech vital in this debate
I totally agree with Glendale Unified School District Supt. Michael Escalante. Any effort to combat bigotry in any way is good (“Parents blast Day of Silence,” Friday).
The Armenian Genocide was something caused by hatred and bigotry. It still exists between the Turks and Armenians and other places in the world.
JAN NEVEU
Glendale
‘Silence’ event promotes lifestyle
After reading Sharon Weisman’s Community Commentary (“Annual Day of Silence should be listened to”) on the Day of Silence in your Thursday edition, I feel I must respond.
Among her other comments, she states, “And I ask the Armenian TV show providers and anyone else similarly uninformed to please learn the facts about homosexuality. One cannot be recruited into gayness, sexual orientation is something a person is born with.”
I hope everyone knows there is significant debate on this issue, and, although her side gets most of the media attention, the research more accurately shows genetic factors may predispose an individual to act in a certain way, but each individual is still left with the choice as to whether to act or not act in a particular manner.
I would also like to share my experience in working with young people. For a number of years I had the opportunity to work closely in my employment at a theater with a number of high school students. There were two young ladies who were seniors in high school. They both were interested in young men but ended up not getting invited to the senior prom.
Just for the fun of it, they decided to attend as a couple. They began to act as if they were in a dating relationship. These girls began to struggle with the thought of whether they were homosexual because it was so much easier to have a relationship with another young woman than to attract and develop a relationship with a young man.
The theater environment is known for having a higher-than-average rate of people who practice the homosexual lifestyle, so these young women felt a lot of acceptance in considering and acting on their experimental gay behaviors. Although I encouraged them not to label themselves, one eventually decided she was a lesbian and chose to live her life in a corresponding fashion. I do not know what became of the other.
While I don’t believe anyone should be harassed or bullied, I do believe that promoting the acceptance of the gay and lesbian lifestyle does encourage the behavior by making it acceptable. Young people, who are searching for their identity, are most especially influenced. For that reason, although it is a worthwhile goal to stand against harassment and bullying, the Day of Silence is specifically promoting the acceptance of a homosexual lifestyle and should not have been allowed to be supported and promoted in our schools.
It specifically repudiates the values of God, home and family that most parents do and have tried to instill in their offspring.
LINDA SHEFFIELD
Glendale
Congressman failed to address influx
Rep. David Dreier’s recent column (“Ending gang violence is high priority,” Pol Position, April 21) asserts that “public safety is a priority” and “unfortunately, gang violence has been on the rise.”
Yet he fails even once to mention a significant factor in gang violence — due to illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
Dreier may not want to discuss, let alone respond to, the illegal immigrant crisis, but its magnitude is startling.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now wants $11 billion in tax spending to build new prisons in California. No wonder, our prisons are overloaded with inmates. I think a significant reason is the influx of criminal illegal immigrants.
Why hasn’t the congressman done something before the problems arose, rather than after? His checkered voting record on the issue over the 27 years he’s served in the House of Representatives is disturbing and disappointing. Americans for Better Immigration’s report card on Dreier’s career votes on reducing enticements for amnesty for illegals earns him an F-minus.
While he talks about issues such as public safety and protecting citizens who belong here, his actions and votes are quite to the contrary.
Our community’s district’s and nation’s security rest on securing borders. In his three-decade career in Congress, Dreier, in my opinion, has failed to do so.
He writes, “We need to stay vigilant in our neighborhoods.” Indeed. More importantly, we need to be vigilant about the incumbent’s voting record in Congress. That’s why I am opposing him in the Republican primary in June.
SONNY SARDO
La Cañada Flintridge
I totally agree with Glendale Unified School District Supt. Michael Escalante. Any effort to combat bigotry in any way is good (“Parents blast Day of Silence,” Friday).
The Armenian Genocide was something caused by hatred and bigotry. It still exists between the Turks and Armenians and other places in the world.
JAN NEVEU
Glendale
‘Silence’ event promotes lifestyle
After reading Sharon Weisman’s Community Commentary (“Annual Day of Silence should be listened to”) on the Day of Silence in your Thursday edition, I feel I must respond.
Among her other comments, she states, “And I ask the Armenian TV show providers and anyone else similarly uninformed to please learn the facts about homosexuality. One cannot be recruited into gayness, sexual orientation is something a person is born with.”
I hope everyone knows there is significant debate on this issue, and, although her side gets most of the media attention, the research more accurately shows genetic factors may predispose an individual to act in a certain way, but each individual is still left with the choice as to whether to act or not act in a particular manner.
I would also like to share my experience in working with young people. For a number of years I had the opportunity to work closely in my employment at a theater with a number of high school students. There were two young ladies who were seniors in high school. They both were interested in young men but ended up not getting invited to the senior prom.
Just for the fun of it, they decided to attend as a couple. They began to act as if they were in a dating relationship. These girls began to struggle with the thought of whether they were homosexual because it was so much easier to have a relationship with another young woman than to attract and develop a relationship with a young man.
The theater environment is known for having a higher-than-average rate of people who practice the homosexual lifestyle, so these young women felt a lot of acceptance in considering and acting on their experimental gay behaviors. Although I encouraged them not to label themselves, one eventually decided she was a lesbian and chose to live her life in a corresponding fashion. I do not know what became of the other.
While I don’t believe anyone should be harassed or bullied, I do believe that promoting the acceptance of the gay and lesbian lifestyle does encourage the behavior by making it acceptable. Young people, who are searching for their identity, are most especially influenced. For that reason, although it is a worthwhile goal to stand against harassment and bullying, the Day of Silence is specifically promoting the acceptance of a homosexual lifestyle and should not have been allowed to be supported and promoted in our schools.
It specifically repudiates the values of God, home and family that most parents do and have tried to instill in their offspring.
LINDA SHEFFIELD
Glendale
Congressman failed to address influx
Rep. David Dreier’s recent column (“Ending gang violence is high priority,” Pol Position, April 21) asserts that “public safety is a priority” and “unfortunately, gang violence has been on the rise.”
Yet he fails even once to mention a significant factor in gang violence — due to illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
Dreier may not want to discuss, let alone respond to, the illegal immigrant crisis, but its magnitude is startling.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now wants $11 billion in tax spending to build new prisons in California. No wonder, our prisons are overloaded with inmates. I think a significant reason is the influx of criminal illegal immigrants.
Why hasn’t the congressman done something before the problems arose, rather than after? His checkered voting record on the issue over the 27 years he’s served in the House of Representatives is disturbing and disappointing. Americans for Better Immigration’s report card on Dreier’s career votes on reducing enticements for amnesty for illegals earns him an F-minus.
While he talks about issues such as public safety and protecting citizens who belong here, his actions and votes are quite to the contrary.
Our community’s district’s and nation’s security rest on securing borders. In his three-decade career in Congress, Dreier, in my opinion, has failed to do so.
He writes, “We need to stay vigilant in our neighborhoods.” Indeed. More importantly, we need to be vigilant about the incumbent’s voting record in Congress. That’s why I am opposing him in the Republican primary in June.
SONNY SARDO
La Cañada Flintridge
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