Life,
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The Declaration of Independence proclaims it
“self-evident” that “all men are created equal.” U.S. Sen. Rick
Santorum, however, seems to interpret that great pronouncement as applying
only to straight people when he compares homosexuality with incest and
adultery.
In Afghanistan recently, six men who were convicted of
sodomy (in three separate instances) were forced to stand in front of a stone
wall, which a tank then knocked down upon them.
In Brazil, the leaders of a gay rights organization
calling for the investigation of the murders of a transvestite and two gay men
have themselves become the targets of anonymous death threats. Zimbabwe’s
president has claimed that homosexuals are “lower than dogs and pigs.”
Shouldn’t we, in this great industrialized nation, be
above that sort of primitive, uncivilized bigotry? Shouldn’t we be working
from the belief that all people truly are created equal, and be spending our
time striving to protect the human rights and civil liberties of all our
citizens? Who is Sen. Santorum to deny gays their guaranteed right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
—Mary T. Shaw, Norristown The writer is coordinator of
Amnesty International USA Group #342, which is based in West Chester.
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