Letters: A big thanks to the fantastic leader of the Gilroy High School choirs

Dear Editor,
Thanks to Phil Robb and the Gilroy High School choirs for
another awesome night of music on Friday.
The Pops Concert is always something to look forward to each
year and you never let your audiences down.
Thanks for all the hard work and hours you put in to share with
us.
A big thanks to the fantastic leader of the Gilroy High School choirs

Dear Editor,

Thanks to Phil Robb and the Gilroy High School choirs for another awesome night of music on Friday.

The Pops Concert is always something to look forward to each year and you never let your audiences down.

Thanks for all the hard work and hours you put in to share with us.

Susan M. Baker, Gilroy

‘Idiotic ranting’ perfect description for pro-gay marriage loony letter

Dear Editor,

Here we go again … according to Dave McRae (May 30), if you believe marriage should be between one man and one woman, you’re “spiteful, mean-spirited, and hateful.”

I assume this is the same Dave McRae that spent one miserable term on the Gilroy School Board during which he put his foot in his mouth so many times he was essentially laughed out. He calls a Cynthia Walker column “idiotic ranting,” yet that describes his letter perfectly: His comparison of true marriage (one man and one woman) with slavery and voting rights is “idiotic” as it gets. He must have forgotten to mention Hitler; I’m sure he factors in there somewhere, too.

The column about which McRae rants described judicial activism: The socialist left telling the people that the Constitution can mean whatever they want it to. I remember Al Gore during his failed 2000 campaign stating that the Constitution is a living, breathing document that can mean whatever we want it to (in which case it means nothing).

A few other examples:

■ The lie (perpetrated most recently by pro-homosexual columnist Lisa Pampuch) that “separation of church and state” is in the Constitution. We still suffer from this ruling, a phrase from an activist court, today.

■ The Ninth Circus Court in San Francisco claimed that the Second Amendment does not apply to the people but only to the National Guard.

■ Judge, and ACLU member, Thelton Henderson removing the ban on racial preferences enacted by the people of California (Prop. 209).

■ When the U.S. Supreme Court correctly ruled that states have no business interfering in the business of private organizations, the four activist “justices” who dissented did not even cite the Constitution, but instead talked about the state of New Jersey not being a “burden.”

News for Dave: Civil marriage (as opposed to spiritual, which is defined by each religious denomination), is what the people recognize, not what four activist, big-city judges think is right. Since civil marriage can be limited to two people (polygamists can still have multiple wives recognized within their churches, but only one recognized by law), it can be kept to one man and one woman. Unlike the people of Massachusetts, who were never allowed to vote on this by their socialist, activist, courts, we the people of California have done so and will again be able to do so in November.

Alan Viarengo, Gilroy

Sidewalk parking a dangerous practice on Sorrento Court

Dear Editor,

I have sent several e-mails to the police chief’s office and have seen no action taken, nor have I ever even received a response.

I live on Sorrento Court and we have several people that regularly block the sidewalk with their cars. The neighborhood is filled with children and because of these cars blocking the sidewalk they are forced to go out into the street to go around them. I am afraid that they will be struck by some of the cars that regularly speed up and down the street.

There is also an elderly gentleman who uses a motorized wheelchair and I have seen him have to go into the street because of these inconsiderate people. The two houses that regularly park on the sidewalk are 905 Sorrento Court and 925 Sorrento Court. The former is right on the corner of Hirasaki Drive and any car coming around this corner would never have time to stop if a child or motorized wheelchair were in the street because of the cars blocking the sidewalk. 

I hope to see some action to deter these people before something horrible happens.

Michael Kinkele, Gilroy

Thanks for making the online Dispatch edition worth the click

Dear Editor,

I have been a long time resident of Gilroy (since 1982) and was happy to see your improvements to the online edition of the Gilroy Dispatch!

While I receive the printed paper, I tend to read most material off the RSS feed on my Google home page. What a nice surprise to the link on the article work today and to pull up the material on the recent Summit Fire.

The inclusion of video and maps really worked well together. Nice work, Chris Quirk. I look forward to seeing your online material improve. Thanks for making it worth the click.

Deanna Shaw, Gilroy

San Benito County boater fuming over being blacklisted and banned

Dear Editor,

We found out two weeks ago after planning a trip to Comanche Reservoir that we would not be allowed with our boat in their park because we are from San Benito County. Like the gentleman in your article, our boat has never been in San Justo Reservoir as it is too long for their requirement. We had a cabin rented in Comanche and had even asked if we don’t launch our boat in that reservoir, that we will take it to one of the nearby lakes if it would be okay so that we can save our cabin rental and they told us that they would not even allow it in the park.

T. Davis, Hollister

Activist judges subvert the people on issues like gay marriage

Dear Editor,

It figures that left-wing liberals like Lisa Pampuch were jubilant over the recent California Supreme Court decision that legalized gay so called “marriage.” 

So in accordance with her recent column’s title, I’ll be one of the first in line to offer my “onslaught.” Pampuch’s column beats the drums of standard age-old liberal arguments, i.e. mixing minority rights, civil rights, discrimination, etc. ad nausea, separation of church and state, blah, blah. In true form, Pampuch shows just how far left she will tilt philosophically with her comment, “As I’ve said before, no government agency in this country has any business protecting the sanctity – holiness – of anything.” 

Gosh Lisa, does that mean that the sanctity of life, as codified in the penal code for homicide needs to be tossed out, because after all, that’s a moral judgment that has been written into law for thousands of years? And what about government’s protection over children from sexual abuse? Are you saying that government has no “moral” responsibility to protect children from the monstrous predators who sexually and violently abuse and often kill children? 

Sorry Lisa, but in your typical myopic left-wing views, you support the killing of democracy, the will of the people by lawful vote with your verbal knife stabs. And that’s what an “activist” judge does, subverts the people’s will with judicial fiat. Consider comments from two of the justices who voted against the majority opinion: Justice Marvin R. Baxter, joined by Justice Ming W. Chin, called the ruling a “startling” act of “legal jujitsu” that “oversteps judicial power” by “judicial fiat.” Baxter further stated that “…the majority invents a new constitutional right, immune from the ordinary process of legislative consideration. The majority finds that our Constitution suddenly demands no less than a permanent redefinition of marriage, regardless of the popular will.”

And that dear Lisa, is the problem: the legislative process has been trashed, dumped, junked – crash, bang, boom. That is not democracy. Maybe more like Nazism? But you say discrimination? Well, get over it. Life is full of discrimination, and not all of it is bad. As a democratic society we “discriminate” for example when we incarcerate criminals. The point is, the will of the people has been summarily trashed. And any citizen who is really concerned about the direction our country is headed, should be very concerned about this very bad judicial decision.

James Fennell, Gilroy