In a letter to the Anchorage Daily News, Lenora Sherwood wades in on the controversy over the mayor's decision to pull a gay exhibit from a local library: "I have just two words for the mayor's decision to remove the gay pride exhibit from the Loussac Library: medieval mentality!"
Rami Pagel, in the same paper, writes: "Most people do know the difference between right and wrong. People keep bringing God's name into their own views of hatred. Gays and lesbians have been in this world since the beginning of time, and guess what: They're not going anywhere.
"I am a single mother of three beautiful, loving children. I teach my kids to love everyone because where the concept of right and wrong has to start is with our children. This world could be the beautiful place that God created for us if we didn't have so much hatred. I pray-;and, yes, I pray to the same God as Heather Gilbert—that she never gives birth to a beautiful gay son or lesbian daughter. I would feel sorry for that child to have a mother who didn't love everything about him or her.
"We were all created as equals. Now it's time everyone be treated equally. Everyone is entitled to happiness. Is Gilbert so miserable in her own life that she feels the need to try to ruin ours? News flash: It's not working.
"Gay people will remain proud. Her words will not break us, because I believe God won't have it any other way. Go, gay pride."
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Erika Shepard writes to the Bellingham Herald about the girl who was elected Prom King: "I wish to applaud the courage shown by The Herald in publishing the story of Krystal Bennett's election to prom king at Ferndale High School. As I'm sure you are already aware, there are many people in our community who would prefer that people who are 'different' be relegated to third-class invisibility in our society. It all seems very reminiscent of the prejudicial treatment that people of color received just a decade or two in the past. Or is that past still with us?"