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Courts are allowing freedom to choose

Published/Last Modified on Thursday, Nov 06, 2008 - 06:21:51 am MST

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To the Editor:

I am writing in response to two “articles” in the Sierra Vista Herald’s Oct. 20 issue Oct. 20. One article was “The end of ‘we the people’” by Cal Thomas. The other was a letter to the editor by C.J. Boone.

Both of these authors take exception to people who choose to live their lives by a set of values that these two authors do not endorse. Abortion and homosexuality are certainly famously controversial topics. However, much as I personally disagree with their points of view, objectively, what puzzles/angers/amuses me are the arguments they choose to use. “Don’t have sex or suffer the consequences,” writes C.J. Boone. What about rape victims? What about responsible (married) couples who practice birth control but get pregnant anyway? Yes, Sen. Barack Obama wants healthcare for everyone, but for those without birth certificates, healthcare is not the only unavailable “right” or “privilege.” Yes, Sen. Joe Biden expresses his personal “pro-life” stance, but as a public servant, he correctly puts his personal views aside.

Cal Thomas takes his arguments to the hypocritically absurd. He states that we want less government interference in our lives, yet what he proposes are government mandates laws in which “we the people” have no choice. The basic and true nature of our democratic country is our right to choose what religion to practice, what political party to join, what city to live in, what school to attend, what job to have, whom to marry, etc. Cal Thomas has it backward. By the courts allowing people the right to choose, they are freeing us from “the dictatorial mind-set of the majority,” not keeping us bound within it.

Sara L. Knox

Sierra Vista

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What about rape victims wrote on Nov 11, 2008 4:54 PM:

" Pam Stenzel is an internationally respected expert on sex, love, and relationships. With an M.A. in counseling psychology, she possesses an in-depth understanding of the perils that young people face as they make adult choices. Pam Stenzel's mother was raped. Pam was not aborted. Pam was born and loved and has become an advocate for responsible behavior. Her DVD and book are called Sex Has a Price Tag. "