Antone's Nightclub
Liberals Are Moral
RECEIVED Mon., Nov. 15, 2004
Dear Editor,
After reading this last set of "Postmarks" [Nov. 12], I have had enough. Being liberal does not exclude you from having morals. I should know, I’m a liberal and I have them! I find the attack on "liberal morals" to be unnecessary and unjustified. I don’t hate conservatives. I disagree with their political stance and because I do should I be personally vilified?
This election was won on "moral values"? It seems to me that our entire country has skewed morals. With everything awful that is going on in the world, are America’s enemies really two people who love each other, wanting rights to visit each other in the hospital, file joint tax returns, and retain property gained together? (Wasn’t interracial marriage a threat to the fabric of the family once?) Why is it OK to reduce emissions control standards in the name of the economy when the taxpayers are the ones who are getting sick from it? Any money saved here isn’t going to their heath insurance. The "Boycott Planned Parenthood movement" - yes, they provide access to abortion – however, they also save women's lives through affordable services to detect and treat cervical cancer and STDs, information on and access to contraception, and information on how to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Abortion is a symptom of a bigger problem. I would like to see abortion stop, but it isn't going anywhere until we educate our children about prevention of unwanted pregnancies in the first place! So, love is worse than hate, saving the planet is worse than putting out the money for enhancing technology (we’ve put a man on the moon, but we can’t get an affordable electric car?), and condemning Planned Parenthood is better than telling teenagers about contraception?
If this radical religious movement wants to continue, I suggest re-reading your Bibles. The same books used to condemn homosexuality require animal sacrifice for pretty much everything, say having ferrets makes you "unclean" (I’m screwed), dead bodies are "unclean" (sorry funeral homes, hospitals), cursing your parents is punishable by death (sorry teens), and other things that I doubt anyone would agree to today.
I think that my morals (love, care, respect, and honesty for/toward my fellow human beings and stewardship for the planet) are consistent with Christian values. What changed?
After reading this last set of "Postmarks" [Nov. 12], I have had enough. Being liberal does not exclude you from having morals. I should know, I’m a liberal and I have them! I find the attack on "liberal morals" to be unnecessary and unjustified. I don’t hate conservatives. I disagree with their political stance and because I do should I be personally vilified?
This election was won on "moral values"? It seems to me that our entire country has skewed morals. With everything awful that is going on in the world, are America’s enemies really two people who love each other, wanting rights to visit each other in the hospital, file joint tax returns, and retain property gained together? (Wasn’t interracial marriage a threat to the fabric of the family once?) Why is it OK to reduce emissions control standards in the name of the economy when the taxpayers are the ones who are getting sick from it? Any money saved here isn’t going to their heath insurance. The "Boycott Planned Parenthood movement" - yes, they provide access to abortion – however, they also save women's lives through affordable services to detect and treat cervical cancer and STDs, information on and access to contraception, and information on how to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Abortion is a symptom of a bigger problem. I would like to see abortion stop, but it isn't going anywhere until we educate our children about prevention of unwanted pregnancies in the first place! So, love is worse than hate, saving the planet is worse than putting out the money for enhancing technology (we’ve put a man on the moon, but we can’t get an affordable electric car?), and condemning Planned Parenthood is better than telling teenagers about contraception?
If this radical religious movement wants to continue, I suggest re-reading your Bibles. The same books used to condemn homosexuality require animal sacrifice for pretty much everything, say having ferrets makes you "unclean" (I’m screwed), dead bodies are "unclean" (sorry funeral homes, hospitals), cursing your parents is punishable by death (sorry teens), and other things that I doubt anyone would agree to today.
I think that my morals (love, care, respect, and honesty for/toward my fellow human beings and stewardship for the planet) are consistent with Christian values. What changed?
Zephyr Luckenbach