Dear Editor:
In her letter to The Dispatch dated July 31, Ms. Elisa Hart of
Columbus Ohio chastises us Gilroy locals (in her words
”
… you people
”
) about the reality of swing clubs and swingers’
”
rights.
”
Dear Editor:
In her letter to The Dispatch dated July 31, Ms. Elisa Hart of Columbus Ohio chastises us Gilroy locals (in her words “… you people” ) about the reality of swing clubs and swingers’ “rights.” Well Ms. Hart, since you said you needed an explanation about associating “quiet” swing clubs and the “evils of society”, I’ll attempt an explanation — but alas, I suspect what I write will get no farther in your mind than the print on this page.
However, consider this:
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th edition) defines “deviant” as “One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.” You say that swingers are not deviants. I beg to differ with you. The last time I checked, people who gather in groups to swap sexual encounters with strangers just for the thrill of it are not acting according to accepted social standards that the majority of U.S. citizens still hold. You equate swingers with “professional people” – but logically, isn’t it true that “professional people” also are made-up of murderers, rapists, extortionists, and thieves? You demand your “rights,” but your letter demonstrates your ignorance of what social and moral responsibility is all about. Listen to an “explanation” from two great Americans:
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion … Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
~ John Adams, second president of the United States
“Since private and public Vices, are in reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our ancestors for these great purposes be encouraged by the government. For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when Knowledge is diffus’d and Virtue is preserv’d. On the contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauch’d in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
~ Samuel Adams, patriot
You should be very concerned Ms. Hart, that your swingers’ “rights” are contributing to the sinking of the freedom you claim to love.
James Fennell, Gilroy
Submitted Friday, Aug. 1 to ed****@ga****.com
