2008 Woodie Awards
Shock and concern
Issue date: 6/19/06 Section: Letters
Monday, June 19, 2006
I am shocked and concerned about a recent article that you allowed published in La Voz, "Gay pride events fail to make homosexuality 'normal.'"
I am the first one to agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. When an opinion alienates an entire group of people that are born a certain way and is published by a college newspaper that is supposed to be tolerant, it is just outright offensive.
Next thing you know, Schulte is going to be condemning the paralyzed and the blind. But according to him, as long as they can procreate, they will be okay.
Comparing gay parents to Nazi youth is just ridiculous. Will he next be publishing an article about how slavery should come back? As a woman who is reproductively challenged, do I not hold any value just because I can't have children? According to your paper, I don't.
I doubt any person, gay, straight, Christian or Catholic, would want to destroy Schulte's religion. Many religious groups are much more offensive and in-your-face on campus than any other groups, so why doesn't your newspaper take a gander at these groups and condemn them in the opinion section?
What makes religious people any more normal than homosexuals? I think the only abnormal group is the group of people that can't accept humans as humans - nothing more, nothing less. It is sad that, in this day and age, there are still people in the state of California who are so close-minded.
It is disheartening that a newspaper on such a diverse campus would publish such a shameful article. The only people who should be compared to Nazis are the demonic people who agree with James Schulte. I now understand why no one reads your newspaper.
- Stephanie Hannah
I am shocked and concerned about a recent article that you allowed published in La Voz, "Gay pride events fail to make homosexuality 'normal.'"
I am the first one to agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. When an opinion alienates an entire group of people that are born a certain way and is published by a college newspaper that is supposed to be tolerant, it is just outright offensive.
Next thing you know, Schulte is going to be condemning the paralyzed and the blind. But according to him, as long as they can procreate, they will be okay.
Comparing gay parents to Nazi youth is just ridiculous. Will he next be publishing an article about how slavery should come back? As a woman who is reproductively challenged, do I not hold any value just because I can't have children? According to your paper, I don't.
I doubt any person, gay, straight, Christian or Catholic, would want to destroy Schulte's religion. Many religious groups are much more offensive and in-your-face on campus than any other groups, so why doesn't your newspaper take a gander at these groups and condemn them in the opinion section?
What makes religious people any more normal than homosexuals? I think the only abnormal group is the group of people that can't accept humans as humans - nothing more, nothing less. It is sad that, in this day and age, there are still people in the state of California who are so close-minded.
It is disheartening that a newspaper on such a diverse campus would publish such a shameful article. The only people who should be compared to Nazis are the demonic people who agree with James Schulte. I now understand why no one reads your newspaper.
- Stephanie Hannah
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