September 13, 1996
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin
To the Editor:
Your September 12 editorial ("Same-sex marriage ban is political posturing") did not bother to explain how the issue of
legalizing such "matrimony" has become a sympathetic must-solve crisis, after three hundred years of traditional marriage in
America.
What is clear is that you enthusiastically agree with Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun's not-so-subtle strategy of piggybacking
claimed sexual behaviors onto the civil rights movement, a ploy many legitimate minorities deeply resent.
Mosely-Braun preaches that opposition to the homosexual political agenda "is really about the politics of fear and division."
She's right for the wrong reasons.
Like many public agencies at local, state and federal levels, the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in the state
of Washington is firmly in the grip of a protective, pro-homosexual culture which few dare challenge.
DSHS recently created a policy - finessed behind the scenes - by which the state actively recruits adult homosexuals, lesbians,
bisexuals and transgenders to enter DSHS Juvenile Rehabilitation facilities and counsel or "mentor" other peoples' minor
children. They "help" these children deal with their "emerging feelings and sexual orientation," and aid them in "transitioning"
into communities where they can "establish alternative lifestyles." Our citizens were never allowed to vote on this policy.
Now people in our state find that, once again, we are about to have significant public policy changes dictated to us because of
pro-homosexual activism, this time from as far out of state as Hawaii. Is this democratic, and does anyone really believe that
aggressive, pro-homosexual strategists will ever be content with successive levels of manipulative power?
Sincerely:
Robert R. Larimer Jr.
Executive Director
Washington for Traditional Values
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