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Show Letter Put-on Editor: Your "Opinion" (July 25) was interesting. Naive, prejudiced and inconsistent but interesting in-teresting nevertheless. Society has "always opposed unhealthy sexual practices like 'fornication' "?!? Don't you mean your own particular section of white middle class society? And what do you mean "unhealthy"? Do you know of any medical diseases caused by fornication? You may say V.D., but this need not be if it weren't for society's narrow-minded attitude toward sex which prevents proper medical treatment treat-ment and the termination of what seems to be an epidemic. Also, how is it that "fornication" leads to the "downfall of liberty and justice"? Why can't people follow their natural urges, provided it is between two consenting adults? Because certain opinionated groups say so? How did a stable family life lead to America's becoming "the most powerful nation" in the world? The Chinese family was much more stable until only recentlybut re-centlybut they weren't as powerful as we are now. And what is the connection between "powerful" and "righteous"? Does might make right? How is the dispensation of birth control pills going to "destroy us"? Do you think the agencies of theTIealth Dept. and OEO haven't anything better to do than plot the overthrow of the United States or some such thing? Birth control may save a world from overpopulation aren't there enough starving children chil-dren in the world? The affairs of teenage girls you label "lustful" (which seems to imply "evil" to you although I miss the connection) is their business, and that of their parents, not yours. Why shouldn't they be allowed to, attend college? Does the practice of pre-marital sex decay the brain? I have never seen any proof that girls whose philosophies re: sex happens to be more open-minded that your own have "demeaned everything around them and encourage riot and anarchy." Do you mean, perhaps, that they disagree with you? Where would you be today if George Washington didn't disagree with the King of England? Or if Joseph Smith hadn't disagreed with the religions of his day? What is a "right-thinking Utahn"? Someone who is as narrow-minded as you obviously are? Someone who cannot tolerate differences in others? You talk about "the American tradition of individual liberty." Is one's sexual practices not an execution of this "individual liberty"? And what is "socialistic immorality"?!? im-morality"?!? Webster defines socialism as "a theory of social organization based on government govern-ment ownship, management or control of the means of production and the distribution and exchange of goods." This is immoral?!? This may not be a comfortable philosophy for a capitalistic nation to contemplate, con-template, but that doesn't mean it's immoral. And what does it have to do with fornication? If "A mother and father under divine influence should have the right to determine the size of their own families, apart from any state pressure or influence," doesn't that include the decision to limit their families with birth control devices if desired-without desired-without the interference from Vernon Romney and other state officials or the influence of the Mormon church which does not constitute the entire population of Utah and therefore has no right to decide upon personal matters for the entire population of the state? What is a "real American"? A W.A.S.P.? A conservative Mormon? Or someone who was born in this country? "Lazy welfare loafers"?!? Are you sure you're not suffering from a lack of knowledge about how lower class norms and values differ from your own? So what if they don't want their lives run strictly by a clock? Before you resort to name-calling: 1- learn that people think and feel differently 2- learn to respect that difference dif-ference And what is a "degraded teenager"? So what if he can't earn enough money to anora " legitimate private physician, . cornerstone of American health care"? Is that his fault -or is it that he didn't have much of a chance in a school system that refused to acknowledge his way of life but demanded that he adapt to the white middle class culture, which is in many alien to his own? Have you had any personal experiences in tw-area? tw-area? I have, and allow me " inform you, sir, you are very V off base-pathetically Furthermore the "cornerstone American health care" is prW shakey, in case you haven noticed. , , I have a good deal of resp for Mormon beliefs, but none i. someone who seeks nan--mindedly to force these belie others. How much do you J about the people you think yo . talking about? How concrete evidence, H you to support your si and accusation? Are you tne thing the Chronicle has t If anything is g01"6 "destroy us," it's intole like yours. Fran Ferruggia |