Dear Editor,
Surely Gilroy felt the shock as The Dispatch printing press put
to paper these words by columnist Dennis Taylor:
”
… we both need to remember where we live and practice a tad bit
of humility.
”
Dennis Taylor and humility? Totally oxymoronic!
Dear Editor,
Surely Gilroy felt the shock as The Dispatch printing press put to paper these words by columnist Dennis Taylor: “… we both need to remember where we live and practice a tad bit of humility.” Dennis Taylor and humility? Totally oxymoronic!
If you’ve felt humility, Dennis, now is the time to show it – one year later. Since you’ve offered no “proof” to support your reckless charges Oct. 1, 2003, I’d written “anti-” type letters to this newspaper, I’ll graciously accept your humble apology any time.
One who should apologize to all religious folk is David Kaeini. He professes intimate knowledge of “God” and states “Did God say no to John Kerry? YES HE DID. He did it with a loud voice that all who have ears can hear.”
Why do you choose to write absolutes, David? This pathetic nonsense implies your “God” violated election laws to blatantly “fix” the presidential election … perhaps ballot-box stuffing, maybe hacking into electronic voting machines, possibly improving the Chicago-style voting method: The dead were raised nationwide and commanded to vote Republican. In this temporal world, such acts are considered felonies. If your “God” did indeed sabotage John Kerry, David, your duty is clear: Have this “God” arrested! That done, apologize to all true believers for exposing “God.”
Sadly, your absolutes may be your unyielding religious beliefs but they’re not Holy Writ. Your disagree with “immoral” issues but who appointed you society’s moral and spiritual judge? You piously claim “The God of Christianity, Islam and Judaism does not approve of those immoral issues that Kerry stood for.” How do you know? You say: “Read the Bible and refer to the Ten Commandments.” That’s the foundation justifying your foolishness – a musty history book filled with contradictions, irrelevancies and, too often, reflecting man’s worst nature?
You presented three absolutes to support your anti-gay marriage rhetoric. Each is fear-based, each is offered with the smugness of the righteousness. What crisis, to your myopia, does gay marriage create? You claim it’s ” … (confusing the younger generation) about sexual identity” until it “loses its understanding of lifelong commitments”; it will lead to polygamy; and worst of all, it’s a plot for the “… revealing (of) even more shocking and outrageous (gay) objectives.” Ohhh, we’re all doomed!!
Like Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man creating “Trouble In River City” you wave your musty history book, and claim it’s the moral judge for problems only you see and interpret. Look into that musty tome and consider one of its primary messages: “Judge not, lest you be judged.” Can you do that and then act accordingly?
James Brescoll, Gilroy
