Editor’s note: This letter is in response to “True tolerance means tolerating intolerance,” a letter from Michael Reid published in the Daily Lobo on Monday. In the letter, Reid addressed “UNM ought to expel Chick-fil-A from campus,” a letter from William A. Strickler published Aug. 13. Here, Strickler responds to Reid’s letter.
Editor,
Michael Reid, you are right. Tolerance was not the right word to use. The Chick-fil-A CEO said his anti-gay remarks as Chick-fil-A’s CEO. He did not say it was his personal opinion saying that his company supports “the biblical definition of the family unit” and that he prays “God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is about.”
Plus, Chick-fil-A has given money to anti-gay groups. UNM has a policy of no discrimination based on sexual orientation, but how is not letting gays marry nondiscriminatory? I don’t know how a gay person would be 100 percent comfortable taking a class from you when at the very least you condone Chick-fil-A’s actions and besides, the food is good, right?
William A. Strickler
UNM alumnus
