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Editor:
In response to both the article "Come out, come out - wherever you are," (Oct. 11) and Andrea Daugherty's "Gays and lesbians contribute to breakdown of family values," (Oct. 17) I would also like to respond. Although I despise labels, I am forced to conform to those of society, I am a heterosexual, conservative Christian, and in no way does that give me the right to judge another person. Only one can judge. One might also remind Andrea that God looks at the heart of a person, because that is what counts.
There are many factors contributing to the breakdown of "family values," so many, in fact, that it is totally unfair to name one as the cause. Heaping the responsibility of disintegrating values to homosexuality is as unfair as attributing it to narrow-minded, judgmental and prejudiced people like yourself.
I would ask that readers not attribute Andrea's opinion to all Christians. Growing up we are taught many things, and all of us have had different teachers and classrooms, so to speak. As Christians, we are taught to strive to be compassionate, giving, understanding, accepting and above all to "love thy neighbors as you love yourself."
I think it would be appropriate to remind Andrea, and others who naively share her opinion, that as others are unfit to judge us, so are we to judge others. And though it is near impossible to attain the unconditional love that God has for each and every one of us, I think we can all do a little better.
Beverley A. Chesley
family studies sophomore
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