November 20, 2008 Tracy, CA

Search

Polls

Login






Lost Password?
No account yet? Register

RSS Feed: Local News

feed image

RSS Feed: Sports

feed image

RSS Feed: Voice

feed image
Polar bears and gay marriage Print E-mail
Written by Derek O'Bar / For the Tracy Press /   
Friday, 23 May 2008

A local man challenges the arguments of a fellow letter writer and of opponents of a recent Supreme Court decision.



EDITOR,

I have two things I’d like to respond to. The first is a letter to the editor written a few days ago involving polar bears (“Polar bear fiction,” Your Voice, Wednesday). The writer said that the population of polar bears is increasing, that Canadians can get licenses to hunt them, and that there is no ice in Canada.

Polar bears are on the endangered species list because humans, through the expulsion of greenhouse gases, are melting the polar ice caps in the arctic, thus melting all the ice.

That being said, Canadians can’t get hunting licenses for polar bears. Also, look at a map. You’re crazy to think there is no ice in Canada.

My second issue is with California’s Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. I have a problem with all of these people using religion as a “legitimate” excuse for discriminating against the gay community. It doesn’t matter what the Bible says about gays or marriage, because the last time I checked, we swore on the Bible to uphold the Constitution, not the other way around.

— Derek O’Bar, Tracy 

 

Trackback(0)
Comments (0)add
This content has been locked. You can no longer post any comment.
You must be logged in to post a comment. Please register if you do not have an account yet.

busy