Dear Editor,
After following that
”
Tempest in a Teapot
”
about
”
a day of silence
”
in the Gilroy schools, as covered by The Dispatch, I came to the
conclusion: One should treat the individual homosexual with
compassion and understanding, but condemn their lifestyle.
Dear Editor,
After following that “Tempest in a Teapot” about “a day of silence” in the Gilroy schools, as covered by The Dispatch, I came to the conclusion: One should treat the individual homosexual with compassion and understanding, but condemn their lifestyle.
Why? Well, in 1983 Surgeon General Koop reported the first incident of AIDS in the United States. In a report from the Center for Disease Control, it documented 2,800 cases of AIDS in the U.S. Of the cases of AIDS, 85 percent were homosexuals, 12.5 percent were drug addicts, and 2.5 percent were innocent victims (i.e. through blood transfusions and cuts).
From this data it is evident that homosexuals introduced this terrible disease of AIDS into our society. Is this the lifestyle our teachers and protesters have accepted? I think of them as most naive to do so! They have every right to their beliefs, but the school is not a proper place for their demonstration.
J.G. McCormack, Gilroy
