With respect to the Alabama Supreme Court's recent decision in which Justice Roy Moore sites the common law designation of homosexuality as "an inherent evil," the practice of which would render a person an unfit parent, how is this reconciled with the fact that many warm, loving and caring parents throughout our great nation happen to be homosexuals?

I do not believe there is any truth or factual bases to the statement that people who practice homosexuality are any more or less evil than heterosexuals. Certainly the ability of a parent to provide a good home and healthy, nurturing environment for a child is not a matter which can be measured by sexual orientation.

Judge Moore's decision to place a monument to the Ten Commandments in Alabama's Supreme Court and characterize homosexuality as an inherent common law evil essentially turns the Alabama Supreme Court into a theocracy. This provides a very good case for not rearing a child in this backward turned state which has declared intolerance toward a whole group of people. Why certainly if I were the parent of these children I wouldn't want them living in a state ruled by such prejudicial, religiously fanatical judges!

When religion is mixed with the law in this manner so as to make judgments based upon bias and prejudice, you have the first signs of theocracy, that same inherently and genuine evil which characterized the Inquisition. It is decisions like this which motivate radical, religious fundamentalist to bomb gay bars or abduct, torture and murder homosexuals.

Perhaps the Southern Poverty Law Center should now add Alabama's Supreme Court to its list of hate groups, as that body has certainly expressed a hatred and intolerance toward homosexuals. The irony of this is the fact that most homosexuals are probably Christians as are most of the criminals who go through our courts and fill our prisons. For a Christian judge to then declare homosexuals evil and unfit as parents with no analysis or their parenting skills and abilities is a miscarriage of justice!

Homosexuality is not inherently evil, but bigotry and prejudice established through theocracy is! Such pure evil mandates that this case be appealed to the highest court in the land!

Sincerely,
Terry Lynch
Date: 16 Feb., 2002

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