An invitation for Morris
So in Bob Morris’ opinion the Girl Scouts are a radical organization that uses little girls to support homosexuality and abortion. If I understand what he wrote to the state representatives in Indiana, girls who are your constituents in Fort Wayne are doing something wrong by being a part of the Girl Scouts.
Well, here is where the rubber meets the road: I challenge Morris to come to my house and explain to my 8-year-old daughter that her representative won’t buy cookies from her because by doing so he will be is supporting abortion, and so will she. Look in her eyes and tell her that the WWJD key chains they made a few weeks ago in Girl Scouts support a homosexual agenda. Go ahead and tell her that those key chains are teaching her bad values that are not worthy of your support.
I’ll have her troop leader here too so Morris can tell her he does not support all of her volunteer hours teaching these girls confidence, friendship and leadership skills and that he won’t even recognize the 100th anniversary of the organization.
I’ll arrange to have this newspaper here as well as the TV stations so he can explain his position to my daughter (who I assure you does not know what abortion even is) and he can tell her to her face, as well as the people he “represents” in this area that all of her hard work selling cookies so she can go to summer camp is immoral.
Is he man enough to explain himself to an 8 year old? I live in Morris’ neighborhood, so he is supposedly speaking for my daughter and my family. I’d like to hear how he has my best interests, and that of my daughter, in mind.
If he’ll let me know when he’ll be here, I’ll take care of the rest.
MATTHEW RAHN Fort Wayne
Unfit to hold his office
Just when I think I’ve heard and read every inane comment a political figure can make, along comes Rep. Bob Morris! If the gentleman wants to really examine extremism in the U.S., he only need look in the mirror.
How do people like this get elected?
TOM REED Bryan, Ohio
Where were Houston’s friends?
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A star is headed down a paparazzi-covered path of self-destruction, ending in a funeral.
Whitney Houston is the latest to add her name to the list that includes Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole Smith and Elvis Presley. After their deaths, the stampede began of their so-called friends, who couldn’t wait to find a camera to talk about how special the deceased was to them.
If these “close friends” truly cared, they would have dragged the person, kicking and screaming, to rehab and guarded the door until rehab was completed. Instead, most turned a blind eye, as long as they were benefiting from the work of the celebrity.
If my house caught fire, I’d appreciate my friends telling me how bad they feel but would’ve appreciated it more if they had grabbed a hose and put out the fire.
TOM ACKMANN Fort Wayne
Liberals at fault for education mess
White male Lee C. Bollinger is a supporter of socially engineered diversity, probably because it has never affected him or his children.
Were Bollinger truly interested in diversity, he’d resign as president of Columbia University because he’s male and quit as director of the Washington Post Co. because he’s white. He’d insist an underserved minority candidate be hired in those positions, perhaps even the rarest of all species in a faculty lounge or newsroom, a conservative.
Even with causes as noble as diversity, a line must be drawn somewhere. I suppose Bollinger draws his line right where it might actually affect him. If not there, then certainly before an equal number of conservative students and faculty are required at Columbia or on the Post’s staff.
The reason some minorities cannot get into universities on their own merit is due to the utter failure of many inner-city schools. Yet when someone comes along with voucher money to get kids out of the mess created by liberal policies, there are the liberals standing in the schoolhouse door blocking a better education for minority kids.
Bollinger and his pals do little to enable these children to enter college based on their own merit. Instead, Bollinger’s answer to the problems liberal education policies have created is to pluck kids from the back of the line, where those policies have placed them, and simply move them ahead of more qualified applicants.
DOUG SCHUMICK Fort Wayne