LETTERS: WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF DIVERSITY

To the editor:

I have to take exception to parts of Selma M. Crisler's recent letter. If misleading statements are not answered, people will take them at face value.

NAMBLA, the man-boy love association, is opposed in the gay community. The implication that all gay males would have sympathy for NAMBLA or are inclined to have sexual relationships with minors is not true. All the gay and lesbian people I know find the practice of pedophilia repugnant just as heterosexuals do. Pedophiles are a very small percentage of the population, just as child molesters are in the heterosexual community.

The implication that this will "grow and multiply like a cancer" sounds to me like an effort to alarm people without presenting any facts. We are certainly entitled to our opinions, but this whole campaign looks like an effort to tar normal homosexual people with the sins of a few. My opinion is that our nation needs to stop searching for people to hate. God has created a wondrous diversity in the human race, and we don't need to feel threatened by those who are different from ourselves.

Of course, you can send me money too.

PASTOR NEAL O. ZEILINGER

Cape Girardeau