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Show Wcton4BY Much tj 1996 The Dolly Utah CfcrMlrie ILottosn Speed Limits Aren't Just Money Makers " " . Editor: ; This letter is in response to Matt Cusumano's "Cops With Radar Rush to Give Tickets: No Speed's Slow Enough When You're Eating the Daily Donuts" Utah Chronicle, ftb.29. There is a reason why wc have low speed limits in school zones, and it is not to inconvenience you or to raise our city's revenues. It is because of people like you, who have very little understanding as. to why wc have lower speed limits in school zones, that wc need to spend our tax dollars to employ our police force on minor traffic violations. I would much rather sec our - children who never ran into the street without looking both ways, but not all young people have the same understanding of the dangers of running out into a street. That is why the responsibility is up to us, as adults, to go the required speed limit and to watch out for our young people. we wUl have to continue to spend the time and energies of our police force and courts for your selfish purposes. At stake here are1 the lives and of the young people of Utah. I am not only amazed that you police force and courts used for more productive and appropriate services like stopping real crime. I am sure that most of our police officers would also rather spend their time on fighting real crime. But until you and people like you come to realize what it is that is at stake here. cult time understanding why a child would be crossing 700 East. The answer is very simple to get to the other side. I suppose that maybe you were one of those very rational safety seem to have no concern for (and I quote you) "those little wretched children," but you also show no con-- cern for the crossing guard who was run over two years ago. You also seemed to have a diffi ;; : So the next time you're speeding through a school zone (and by the way, 49 mph is only 16 mph less that what is allowed on the freeway), instead of thinking of how inconvc- - nient it might be if you were stopped and given a ticket, think about what it be like for that police officer to have to tell the parents of some child that their son or daughter was murdered by a careless arrogant driver. Think about the families and friends who have lost loved ones because of the neglect and selfishness of others. And no matter how much your fine would be or how much you may be "inconvenienced, it would not even come close to the emptiness the loved ones of that murdered person fed from the senselessness of such actions. Gregory Mabey Salt Lake City Senate from ptf Q Utah Legislature? Make no mistake about this. What is at issue is not exclusively or even primarily what art called "gay rights," i.c the right of individuals to equal treatment regardless of their respective lifestyles, including their sexual preferences important system by the - though these rights may be. Hence, efforts to defend such legislation in the name of protecting the supposed innocence of adolescents arc transparently disingenuous. What is primarily at issue is what John Stuart Mill called "the liberty of thought and discussion." The issue is whether, through a captive Legislature, the Church of Jesus Saints can conChrist of Latter-datrol the discussion of controversial issues, especially moral issues, throughout public schools in the state of Utah, not only in those small and overwhelmingly Mormon like Kaysville -communities de at least where, facto, the Mormon church exercises such control in any case, but also in cities like Salt Lake City and Ogden, which have relapopulattively large y - non-Mormo- n ions. It seems to me, therefore, that in addition to those relatively few individuals who understand and sympa-- t hize with the problems of such minority groups as gay teenagers, all members of the academic profession, all throughout the state of Utah, and all of those Mormons who still believe in a secular government, i.e. a government characterized by at least some effective separation between church and state, ought to vigorously oppose any legislative proposal which even vaguely resembles Mr. Taylor's SB ICS!1DZ! non-Mormo- Z46. I urge all who read this to express their opposition to such proposals to the governor and to their state legislators in the strongest possible terms. Dr. Robert Brian Hanson Salt Lake City Assistant Sports Editor James "LIT. Edward doesn't want to get beat up, but he wants someone to wantio beat him up. HEM I ONSURIMICE DS So important, in fact, that many colleges and universities in America, including the University of Utah, are requiring students to have it. 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