Marriage License

Wed search: C.J Janovy’s “Altar Ego” (February 12) was a true and fantastic piece, which I would hope would make people realize what is happening! The only trouble is, I don’t want to focus too much attention on the right-wingers, because that would only serve to their advantage, to which Janovy eludes.

I hope Janovy saw that Family Research Council trash, which, after an Internet poll, was scrapped because it found that a majority of Americans did not care if homosexuals were married, and the number who felt unions were the answer was still greater than the number who wanted homosexuals castigated as third-class citizens.

Oh my mercy; the wicked webs the right wing weaves …

Dave Davis

Overland Park

Right of way: Why did the Pitch have to go and let Ms. Janovy write “Altar Ego”? Usually the opinions and stories in the Pitch have a logical, well-thought plot and delivery. They may be controversial, but they’re logical and well-presented. Then Ms. Janovy steps in, apparently compelled to bring the paper down faster than a $2 whore on an aircraft carrier.

In regards to putting the gay-marriage ban on the ballot in November, she writes, “It’s clearly a gimmick to get the right-wingers out to the polls in a big election year.” If I understand her statement, she is saying that everything would be better if about half the people didn’t show up to vote? Shouldn’t she have clarified that is just for her minority gay clique?

She does go on to admit that the majority of Americans are not ready to accept her lifestyle, then continues saying the only reason this is being brought up now is to cover the education and environmental issues, the working family not feeling the economy rebound, and my favorite: George Bush’s lies. I must have missed the latest Starr Report where George Bush was found to be lying. Has his impeachment hearing been scheduled yet? I must have missed that, too.

So, which is it, Ms. Janovy? Do the evil Republicans want to bring people to the polls to squash gay rights, or do they want everyone to stay home so that their coverup is successful?

This country would be much better off if everyone voted. However, this would require gay writers to do their journalistic duty and actually consider what they are writing before they write it.

Trevor H. Cooke

Overland Park

Spay Anything

Limon aid: Fuck you, Judge Henry Green, and quit masking your contempt for “teenage homo lotharios” by blaming them on the so-called demise of the human race (Kansas City Strip, February 12). Since you despise these people intently, you should say to yourself, “If they would even consider living a homosexual lifestyle, would I want them to procreate?”

Poor, disabled Matthew Limon. Someone needs to pay for the outbreak of homosexuals. Right?

Will someone please take a look at how violent our society is? The less procreation, the less chance of someone else fucking up another human being by trying to be a parent!

Spay and neuter yourselves. We’re not going anywhere, and if we did, we’d never even know about it!

Jennifer Shive

Kansas City, Missouri

Court dismissed: So Judge Henry Green is worried gays will be the downfall of the human race? Isn’t it against Georgia’s sodomy law (the law that Judge Green used for the basis of his initial opinion) for the judge to have his head that far up his ass?

Name Withheld By Request

Cell Division

Pray time: The reason for this e-mail is my outrage at Ben Paynter’s obvious dislike for Christians (“Jesus Is in the Big House,” February 12). His story was tilted toward a negative view of the program InnerChange.

My observations are that he gave no e-mail address for Chuck Colson’s organization but wasted no time in giving the UCLA professor one. Also, his description of the pastor was slanderous; and last, but most important, were Paynter a listener of BreakPoint, he would have known of InnerChange a year or more ago.

Please never try to write another story about greater people in this manner again, because there is a god, and he judges character.

Kevin McRoberts

Shawnee

Jail bait: OK, I work with a lot of people coming out of prison, and guess what? I’m NOT Christian! I see these guys who got jailhouse religious conversions, and the conversions don’t stick. Period. Just like the bodybuilding stuff.

A few years back, the Rand Corporation did a study and found out that recidivism is reduced by therapy. Treatment! That’s what works. Not mandatory minimum sentences. Not closer supervision. Not harsher anything … just getting your head together under professional guidance and looking inside one’s self to get a sense of meaning from something.

Why can’t the Department of Corrections put together more therapeutic communities with more enhanced services, including more effective therapy and one-on-one therapy? How about real schooling and real vocational rehabilitation? And some of that mentoring stuff not necessarily connected with a church?

And how many folk get revoked for smoking pot only? Don’t get me started …

Kim Bowie

Kansas City, Missouri

Seldom Scene

Hop to it: Regarding Nathan Dinsdale’s “Scene Stealer” (February 5): Nathan, I met you that night at the show, and frankly, what you did with what happened that night shows a lack of understanding of our (Lawrence and KC’s) hip-hop scene. Your inexperience with hip-hop shows because of all the buzzwords and references to Mob icons. What is your point?

I am glad to see an increase of press related to local hip-hop. My only hope is that those who report on the local scene spend some time getting to know the scene rather than applying hyped, misleading rhetoric and overdone media buzzwords.

Keep the press coming, and keep coming yourself so you can understand what you are writing about

Necia Gamby

Kansas City, Missouri