Editor,
This is in response to Daniel Martinez's letter published in the Daily Lobo on Tuesday. I am an atheist and heterosexual supporter of gay rights. With that said, I was completely dumbfounded by the gratuitous amounts of drivel in the entirety of the letter. What makes people unfit to receive fair treatment? I thought America was supposed to embrace differences, not single them out.
The letter states, "If homosexual couples are allowed to use the 'fair and equal' argument, what will prevent other immoral groups from engaging in immoral behavior?" What constitutes immoral behavior is a matter of opinion. Gay people do nothing to hurt anyone else with their personal interests.
There is no harm in letting gay people be who they are. America is the land of the free. To say that someone does not deserve fair and equal treatment is un-American.
The letter continues to declare, "God has a purpose for us, and that is why he created us the way he did." Suggesting this makes the letter contradictory. To go on and say God is against homosexuality is to make God a hypocrite.
Calling out a group of people and declaring that they are responsible for natural disasters and terrorist attacks on this country is completely grotesque. Is it divine intervention when thousands of innocent people die because they lack food and shelter? I don't see how someone could be so enthralled with religious zeal to think that tragedies as such could be caused by sexual orientation.
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"The fact that there is no cure for AIDS confirms my trust in God and his promise to fulfill his word." So what is being said here is that God created a virus meant to kill all homosexuals? If so, why do straight people get it? Why do the most innocent people - newborn babies - get it soon after they are born? Would a forgiving God create something that kills innocent babies? Can people really be so blinded by fanaticism?
Ethan Annati
UNM student
