From the Columbian letters to editor today. People’s attitudes and prejudices change slowly, but thank goodness they can and do change.
Love is good, not immoral
Regarding his recent comment that homosexual acts are “immoral,” Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and recent Marshall Lecturer, is correct on one point. There is immorality in the world.
I think it’s immoral to intentionally fly airplanes into buildings. I think it’s immoral to let the person responsible go free. I think it’s immoral to attack countries that have not attacked us. I think it’s immoral to ask American soldiers to sacrifice their lives and their family life to endure that loss for a lie. I think it’s immoral to watch a genocide in the Sudan and do nothing about it.
However, I do not think that love is immoral. In any shape, form or package, it is the only thing that saves us and offers us redemption for our acts against ourselves and one another.
The general has it wrong. Love is good, not immoral.
Rep. Jim Moeller
Olympia
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