Editor:
Re: Cast light on majority view, Sept. 19 letters.
I read the letter by Bud Larsen in Wednesday’s Peace Arch News regarding the rainbow crosswalk.
Larsen does not speak for the people of White Rock and certainly does not speak for me.
I commend Mayor Wayne Baldwin and the council members for their stand on the rainbow crosswalk.
It is a shame that in 2018 we still have intolerance in this world. It is a further disgrace when it is cloaked in Christianity.
Ian Routledge, White Rock
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I think it is a pity that people who claim they are on moral higher ground than the rest of us continue to harass minorities.
To enlighten readers, our much-disputed crosswalk is not a special recognition of the homosexual group but an acknowledgment of the existence of, till recently, marginalized sexual minorities.
I do not know, what can be so upsetting about sexual minorities. Why would we care about what happens behind closed doors as long as it is consensual, and why does anybody want to pretend that we would have a better world if minorities were to remain covert in order to experience the same freedom, rights and protection as the rest of us?
Isn’t it a bit old to sideline people because of their gender, colour, religion or lack hereof, sexual orientation or disability?
In the country where I am still a citizen, there is a saying: “Do not upset the holy people, then all hell breaks loose.”
It amazes me, how people, who claim they get their moral bearings from the Bible, can be condemning of groups of people who does not fit their moral Christian world view. I thought the whole idea of being a religious person was about compassion, but it appears the love for your fellow man/woman is only if he/she belongs to your group.
For some reason the Christian network has been mobilized because of this lively, fun and decorative crosswalk, but please let it be, it is only a crosswalk. Get over it, as somebody wrote.
The effort to embellish the people’s opposition of the rainbow crosswalk is worthy of a bigger cause. Support Burns Bog or the biodiversity of our local community, do not waste energy on battling windmills.
Ole Nygaard, White Rock
