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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Tuesday, May 2, 1978 Page Five LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS Homosexual rights Editor: To anyone who has studied the subject of homosexuality seriously, it becomes obvious that Anita Bryant's successful crusade against the rights of homosexuals represents religious bigotry, social myth and a tyranny of the majority over the rights of the individual (defined within a societal minority). Fact as a group, gays have been shown to be no more mentally or socially inadequate than the general population. Fact the American Psychiatric Association does not consider homosexuality a mental illness. Fact exposure to homosexuals or another's homosexual behavior does not make someone become a homosexual. Unless someone is already inclined toward homosexuality, even experimenting with it does not make one a homosexual (as many straight grownups know from their sexual adventures with same-se- x peers in early adolescence). In other words, the legal concept of '. . . innocent until proven guilty. . .' has never been applied to homosexuality. Even now that homosexuals have been proven innocent of the crimes, their tormentors attribute to them (if they are indeed crimes and they probably are not), institutionalized social and legal bigotry still abounds. Scapegoatism is alive and well. What many homosexuals want is only their moral (and constitutional) right to pursue their own happiness without the imposition of injunctions based upon socially accepted lies. It seems only a matter of course that if societal institutions continue to ignore and oppose the rights of homosexuals their only course of redress will be aimed at the abolishing and replacing of those institutions as they exist. . .a right claimed by the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Stuart A. McDonald She loves you MM Editor: Re: Reid Sweatman "SANIFLUSH" She loves you yah yah yah. . . Darrell Steele registered for spring quarter and took a two-hopracticum in journalism, stuffing my schedule with 12 hours, just enough to snarf my grant and loan checks. Spring quarter is the academic litmus test. LC, the Newspaper and half my classes are already carcasses behind me as I begin to tackle the carrot fern creeping over my doorway. Dancers in leotards, livi shorts and knee high wooly socks bring pungent reminders of the rain of campus nipples to come. Glacier glasses are the new out fad. This spring the stack to the west of the valley quiescent, mountain-hig- h begins coughing phlegm higher than ever into the sky. Spring quarter. Help. Greg Sandino I ur Gloria's coattails Editor: the life Editor: I nearly rustled up campus distribution rights for Living Colors (LC), the campus ethnic newsletter. The catch was I had to put the snaffle to the Chronicle to allow LC to use Chronicle distribution boxes. At first, Union Coordinator Virginia Peterson said LC Union distribution was restricted to the small table near the main desk. For campus distribution information, Peterson directed me to Dick Christiansen, director of scheduling. Christiansen said LC could not distribute in any building on campus. Fawning at my itinerant failings but stepping aside of those with a sheaf of notes red tape dollops, I walked bleary-eye- d into the office of President Gardner. But I didn't talk to him. I talked to his secretary, who introduced me to Julian Davis, associate dean of Student Affairs in the Union Building. Davis okayed distribution under the condition LC talk to the Chronicle about using their boxes. k involvement with LC But I said good bye to my before dealing with the Chronicle; no stories, other than Arabs circling wagons in front of Kingsbury Hall, and those are rare. Mostly I wrote, for instance, about why the ethnic section of the library isn't by the card catalog anymore. It was shuffled into the master book two summers ago due to lack of interest, according to two library sources. That was winter. Here it is spring and I've changed my major to journalism as recent employment with The Great Salt Lake Newspaper leaves me panting on the phone for more. In the library I looked through master's theses in journalism when a broad blond man jogged up to me and and this is my thesis in said, "Hi, I'm Richard Barnum-Rees- e journalism. No one else will read it so you may as well be the one. So here's Robert Redford in the fat, gorilla in a salt and pepper-ma- n suit, beating his hardbound thesis with my head until I stutter aloud the title, something "and the Snow Gorilla." 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She travels throughout the state warning of the horrors of lesbianism and the Equal Rights Amendment (and falsely connects the two issues). While Ed is free to express opinions different from his wife's, I have not heard him do so. When a professor of constitutional law won't give a straight answer on whether he supports the ERA, I begin to be suspicious. Like Ed Firmage, I am concerned about energy, water, taxes and weapon control. I am waiting to see if he, unlike Gloria Firmage, has any concern for the very real needs of all the people of our state. M. Christensen mm :i ft -- j |