Dear Editor,
Although I concluded his letter to be filled with opinionated hate and a sleek view of statistics, it is no wonder that Joel Adams missed the obvious. Besides having a tone that portrayed him as having the frame of mind that everyone must adhere to his particular view of Christianity or simply be wrong about everything in life; Adams points out that homosexuality is absolutely horrible because he quoted a few statistics that support the idea that certain illnesses are more frequent in the homosexual community.
Adams, in my personal opinion, has committed a fallacy by letting numbers dictate how other people should live their lives. Life is by design full of risks and everyone is at a higher risk of something when compared to other people.
Using the logic that being gay is wrong because ‘statistics’ say so, would allow me to demonstrate why Adams should not have even been born or should never bother to get married.
For instance, in a 1999 study by the Barna Research Group in Ventura, Calif., it was found that Christians on average are more likely to get a divorce than those of other faiths and statistics show that people who are born are at a higher risk of being gay than those who are not … so everyone who hates gay people should then, by Adams’ leap of logic, support abortion.
Adams closed his letter by saying that, “this is a democracy and majority still rules,” and I wonder if he is saying that everyone should be content to live with stupidity if most people believed it was a good idea.
There was a time when the ‘majority’ believed that the world was flat, women shouldn’t vote, slavery was a good idea, and human sacrifice was the best way to keep volcanoes from erupting.
I can also point out that people should be allowed to live their own lives how they see fit because this is still (theoretically) ‘a free country’ and not everything that law abiding and responsible people are entitled to do in their own lives needs to be any of his business.
James Villanueva

Author