Dygert respectfully disagrees with letters

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Click here to see J.T. Hill's Letter to the Editor
Click here to see Kamleh Shaban's Letter to the Editor
Click here to see Shawna Clement's Letter to the Editor

Andy Dygert
Staff Writer
April 8, 2004, Page 4

This article is in response to the three letters to the editor in last week’s paper responding to my article, “Keep Marriage Between Man and Woman.”
First off, Mr. J.T. Hills wrote a highly sarcastic letter in which everyone who does not believe the same thing I do in my article is killed off (along with lots of others.)
He ends it with: “Then the three of us that are left will be able to live a life of bliss. It’ll be like heaven on earth.”
Though I realize, of course, that Hills is joking to a point, I also feel that I must clarify my position.
I do not, in fact, endorse killing people—regardless of their religious, marital, social or any kind of belief.
The main thought in Hills’ article that I want to comment on, however, is his thought that I believe the femininity is decreased by her not staying at home, but rather playing sports or having a job.
This is not my way of thinking at all.
Women have every right to play sports and hold a job as long as they do not neglect their children.
Men have this same responsibility! There is nothing wrong with a stay-at-home dad for instance.
Hills also talks of divorce as disrupting families which is definitely a true statement. I do not condone divorce; I believe it to be wrong.
However, people who have divorced are not necessarily bad people in any way, any more than anyone is necessarily bad.
My response to the next to letters is combined. Both talk about homosexual couples having the same feelings, as well as rights, toward each other as do heterosexual couples.
Ms. Kamleh Shaban’s letter states that, “The same holds true for any barren heterosexual couple” as my article spoke of how a homosexual couple could not produce children.
My answer is that homosexual couples have absolutely, positively no opportunity for children coming out of their relationship, while even a presumably barren woman possesses the innate ability to bear offspring.
For example, Sara gave birth to Abraham even though they were both very old, and was considered to be barren. Women’s bodies are made for bearing, men’s are not. It comes down to that.
I would like to thank everyone for their responses to my original article. I respect your right to your opinion, though I continue to firmly disagree with your stances.