LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.Byline: The Register-Guard Get gay issues out of media I think the media has done what the gays and lesbians have wanted them to do with this same-sex marriage Noun 1. same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" couple, twosome, duet, duo - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable hype that has infiltrated our newspaper headlines and our TV news programs. I think we have had enough of it. We are presented daily with this mockery of the marriage tradition. If the cities, counties and states want to continue granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples and they can find someone to perform their ceremonies, then so be it. But let's get it off the airwaves and out of the papers. That's what these people want, so let's not Let's Not is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Boston University Graduate Journal in December 1954. It was written for no payment as a favour to the journal, and later appeared in the collection Buy Jupiter. give it to them. Why should the normal Americans watching a news program have to watch this garbage? My grandson is asking me if this is normal. If this was normal, it wouldn't be a news item. I would much rather have to explain to my grandson a shot of Janet Jackson's bare boob than to explain same-sex couples kissing each other. I say let them be what they want to be, but for gosh sakes, media, don't shove it in the faces of the rest of the normal world. There has got to be other news out there you can be reporting on, even if it is good news. Hopefully, we won't have to start putting child locks on our TV news programming as some other programming requires. TOM KIRK Eugene Tainted taint v. taint·ed, taint·ing, taints v.tr. 1. To affect with or as if with a disease. 2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate. 3. testimony hurt Stewart Martha Stewart <noinclude></noinclude> Martha Stewart (born Martha Helen Kostyra on August 3, 1941) is an American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate. She is also a former stockbroker and fashion model. was convicted on the testimony of two primary witnesses. One was a low-level employee at the brokerage involved in her stock sale. This low-level employee would not know of one-on-one agreements between broker and client, and was threatened with felony-level prosecution unless he testified. The second major witness was Stewart's friend, Mariana Pasternak. It's on the record that Pasternak's husband traded 10,000 shares of ImClone within 24 hours of Stewart's transaction. Can one really believe that the prosecutors did not suggest to Mariana that she would be charged with felony-level crimes if she did not cooperate and provide appropriate testimony at Stewart's trial? The testimony of both witnesses was bought. The power of the government to buy testimony is frightening. The newspaper's March 9 editorial comments about the integrity of the stock market are irrelevant to the case. Given the facts as they have appeared publicly, Stewart and her broker must both be very stupid if they are guilty. Perhaps they weren't guilty. Perhaps the prosecutors bought testimony through threatened felony-level charges against the two witnesses. The prosecutors' actions will cost nearly a thousand workers in Stewart's company their jobs and cost investors millions in losses. These injuries to innocent people are unforgiv- able. All people, including Stewart, have the right to protest their innocence. To say that Stewart brought this all on by proclaiming her innocence is absurd. THOMAS W. MOSSBERG Eugene Marriage is a personal decision Gay marriage is a big issue. Some religious people are with the Bible and against same-sex marriages. While attending a church session, we heard the pastor speak of Jesus and what he has done. The pastor pointed out that we don't have to follow every rule of the Bible, and we agree. We should be able to make decisions for ourselves. Some Christians are saying that God made a man and a women, not two men or two women. But God never said that they married, or that we couldn't make any exceptions. What if being married with their partners is the only way that their relationships can seem real? What, if by some chance, someone attracted to the same sex wants that eternal bond signifying their love for each other? What if it's the only way these same-sex couples can be happy? Some people are not religious but still believe same-sex marriage is wrong. The people who say this, well, it's really none of their business. It is not their decision who gets married and who doesn't. If they don't want to support same-sex marriages, they don't have to watch or attend any of them. People should be able to marry whoever they wish. People shouldn't be able to tell others who or who not to love. It's a personal decision, for only you to decide. Gay couples shouldn't be isolated from these ceremonies in which they make their love legal. KATIE SLAYDEN, Age 12 CHLOE POTTER, Age 12 Jefferson Middle School Jefferson Middle School is a middle school located in Jefferson City, Tennessee. The middle school is home to the football team the Elks, which has won more conference champs than any other middle school in Tennessee. Eugene DeFazio fights wasteful spending In response to Frank Williams' Feb. 29 letter, it seems clear that a group that calls itself the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste would be against government waste. But when you read the fine print, you'll find that CCAGW CCAGW Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is a partisan group. This group supported President Bush's trillion-dollar tax cuts, which have created massive deficits and have not created jobs or stimulated the economy as promised. Several of the votes this group scored do nothing to improve Oregon's unemployment rate or even cut government spending Government spending or government expenditure consists of government purchases, which can be financed by seigniorage, taxes, or government borrowing. It is considered to be one of the major components of gross domestic product. , such as the resolution designating a site at Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain, mountain in the SW Nevada desert about 100 mi (161 km) northwest of Las Vegas. It is the proposed site of a Dept. of Energy (DOE) repository for up to 77,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (including commercial and defense spent fuel and high-level , Nev., as a repository for the nation's radioactive waste radioactive waste, material containing the unusable radioactive byproducts of the scientific, military, and industrial applications of nuclear energy. Since its radioactivity presents a serious health hazard (see radiation sickness), disposing of such material is a . A truly nonpartisan and well-respected watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) is an nonpartisan federal budget watchdog organization based in Washington, D.C. in the United States. TCS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization; its 501(c)(4) affiliate is Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action). , has scored Rep. Peter DeFazio Peter Anthony DeFazio (born May 27, 1947) is an American politician. He serves as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Oregon, representing the 4th Congressional District and is currently serving his 11th term. in the high 80s and 90s and has named him a "Treasury Guard- ian" for his work to cut wasteful government spending. Check out DeFazio's record at www.taxpayer.net and watch out for partisan organizations billing themselves as watchdogs for taxpayers. WILMA WILMA Washington Interactive Labor Market Access WILMA Wissensbasiertes LAN-Management MINETTE Eugene Voters need to hear all voices Perhaps for the first time in history, two politicians were attempting to give simple yes and no answers. But when Al Sharpton Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American Baptist minister and political, civil rights, and social justice activist.[1][2] In 2004, Sharpton was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. presidential election. asked why the other two, John Kerry  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. and John Edwards  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. , were receiving all the attention, Dan Rather - moderating CBS's debates billed as "Helping America Decide" - justified the exclusion by announcing, "The voters have already decided." Hmm. In both debates leading up to Super Tuesday “Super Tuesday” redirects here. For ESPN program, see Super Tuesday (TV series). In the United States, Super Tuesday commonly refers to a Tuesday in early March of a presidential election year. , co-moderators abandoned all pretense of fairness, not once acknowledging the two lesser-known candidates, or as Rather might have called them - losers. Counting CNN's debate earlier that week, Congressman Dennis Kucinich This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. was allowed to speak for seven of 150 minutes, Sharpton just marginally more. Super Tuesday was crowded with news about Kerry and Edwards, but the real story should have been the suppression of the two candidates voters knew least about. What does it say about our democracy when four equals two on national television? To those elected, it says that deadly choices and mistakes will go unchallenged, that the people are far removed from power, distanced and controlled by news media excessively geared to maintain intimate relationships with government policy-makers and generate profit rather than honest information for an honest democracy. I think most Americans would agree that, in a democracy, candidates should have equal time, and newscasters shouldn't play God. BRIAN BOGART Eugene Time to say 'enough is enough' When is enough enough? At what point do we say we're not going to take this lying down? I was born and raised in this community and have watched the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. and every other so-called human rights or special interest group destroy every facet of our American way The American way of life is an expression that refers to the "life style" of people living in the United States of America. It is an example of a behavioral modality, developed from the 17th century until today. of life. This time you have crossed way over the line. Homosexuals through power of attorney already have just about all the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts. It's not about that, it's about another minority group forcing their beliefs on the majority. If you speak up, you're homophobic or a racist. It couldn't be that you're an average American with a few morals left in your God-fearing life. I will never accept marriage between two men or two women as acceptable in God's eyes. I have always said "live and let live," but now when you choose to destroy the sanctity of marriage by calling it a human rights movement or comparing it to interracial marriages of the 1960s, I have to speak up. You cannot compare this movement to any other in the history of mankind. I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. how many liberal judges or county commissioners say it's the right thing to do, they don't speak for me. They're forcing their opinions on the American people An American people may be:
STEVE HAWKE Eugene Saunders ignored WMD WMD white muscle disease. claim Debra Saunders' March 6 column "Kerry: Bush misled the Senate by meaning what he said," omitted an essential claim of President Bush's "meaning what he said" regarding the Iraq war Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. . Bush, as well as his close associates, claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . This fact is central to the issue she addresses in her article. No one can blame the Congress (or John Kerry, in particular) for voting to give the president ultimate war powers in light of that claim. It surprises me that she chose to ignore this fact in her article. But that would make the premise for her article null and void. The American people are beginning to realize what this administration has done, and the new attitude toward it is nonpartisan. John Kerry is an honest, intelligent, sincere and thoughtful person who addresses the issues in a straightforward way, qualities that cannot be ascribed to the present administration. Please give your readers the opportunity to learn more facts about John Kerry. KATHLEEN EPSTEIN Eugene Guest column used bad science In her March 8 guest viewpoint, Kim Grossnicklaus works hard to establish a relationship between the absence of fathers from families and a whole host of undesirable outcomes, and these findings are used as a springboard to attack same-sex mar- riages. That rather twisted logic ignores the possibility that the problem flows from the challenges and difficulties of single parenthood, not fatherless families. Lower socio-economic status and the lack of time that parents and children get to spend together are also associated with single-parent families. I'm still trying to decide what is more offensive: the patent bigotry that inspired the piece or the bad science used in it. J.P. MONROE Eugene LETTERS LOG Letters received through Wednesday: 191 Letters published: 49 What's on What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour TV series that airs on Fairchild Television. Format Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. readers' minds: The debate over gay marriage dominated all topics as the most popular letter subject, and there was no close second. After an initial outpouring of support for gay marriage, substantially more criticism of same-sex unions emerged this week, much of it based on religious objections. Other hot topics included the presidential campaign, the choice of names for two new Eugene elementary schools and the possible location of a new hospital on EWEB's riverfront riv·er·front n. The land or property along a river. property in Eugene. |
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