Readers write: Oct. 16
Respect those who don’t share ‘Pride’
Regarding the photo with “Atlanta gay pride event stokes controversy” (AJC.com, Oct. 10), what colors and patterns would you paint on the crosswalks to welcome me, a heterosexual, white, Christian woman to Atlanta? The answer is obvious: a crosswalk as usual, the same as it should be for everyone regardless of sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity or belief structure. Shame on Atlanta for wasting tax dollars when we have unstriped roads, pot holes the size of Texas, and hungry children and seniors. It is time to get our priorities in line. The LGBT community needs to respect that not all of us approve of their victories and stop trying so hard to shove it in our faces. That behavior and expectation only alienates us more.
JACI JOHNSON, ATLANTA
GOP’s wild goose chase on Benghazi
After 9/11, the Democrats gave President Bush a virtual "bye" on responsibility for the truly tragic deaths of nearly 3,000 people in our peaceful country, though it happened clearly on his watch. Americans, please fairly contrast that with the absolutely ballistic reaction of the Republicans to the tragic loss of four good Americans at Benghazi in an ungoverned Libya. Honesty and truth force the conclusion that the Republican Party is scared witless of Hillary Clinton's campaign. All their actions over many, many months prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt. They are spending millions of our taxpayer dollars on a wild goose chase. I just wish they were more concerned over governance now than in the future.
WILEY MESSICK, ALPHARETTA
Christian God isn’t same as others’
The Georgia Department of Education, two recent letter writers (Opinion, Oct. 4 and 11), and guest columnist Linda Wertheimer (“Religion wars,” Opinion, Oct. 12) are mistaken in their contention that Christians, Muslims and Jews worship the same God. Christians worship the Trinity, one God in three persons — God the Father, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. The Nicene Creed of Christianity says Jesus is “very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father.” Neither Muslims nor Jews worship Jesus. Muslims think Jesus was a prophet, while mainstream Jews don’t. Parents are right to denounce school lessons that misstate facts and fail to acknowledge fundamental differences in core beliefs about God, just as they should object if a teacher taught that two plus two equals five.
CHARLES D. EDEN, ATLANTA
