Concerned Women of America Letter

Daria Hall
Campus Box 858
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711
November 30, 2007


Concerned Women for America
1015 Fifteenth St. N.W., Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20005

To whom it may concern.


Greetings! My name is Daria Hall and I am a freshman at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida. While completing an assignment for my writing class I stumbled across your website and was totally taken aback by some of your outlandish statements and beliefs. Your beliefs condemn and victimize a group of people based on one simple fact. They love or have feelings for members of the same sex.

While glancing through your website, I noticed that you support God-given right to express beliefs without fear of persecution, the belief that the best place for a child is a man and women household, the belief that homosexuals cannot command that marriage should be solemnized and subsidized under law, and that homosexual relationships are not equally essential to society’s survival. I am aware that the Concerned Women for America organization stands for many good principles but some of them like the ones above are contradictive or cannot be supported.

First, the fact you support God given right to express should extend to all people. Homosexuals are included and should not fear persecution. Second, not to be rude, but a homosexual household is not worse than a heterosexual household. Would you rather place a child in an abusive household that has a mother and a father than in a homosexual household? Why stop a child from living in a household rather than a foster care center?

Third, your organization believes that homosexuals cannot command marriage rights and financial rights. Why not? Heterosexual couples demand their rights. Are homosexuals not citizens, equal, or even human? Lastly, how can your organization say that homosexual relationships are not essential? Every person’s happiness affects society. If mass amounts of people are not happy, people tend to get rebellious and think about rendering the status quo. Denying marriage to American citizens based on a religious moral is against American principles.

When researching and browsing the internet, I wonder how far people will hurt others to further their beliefs. Who will have to play the victim for your beliefs? I also wonder where these facts and beliefs stem from. Where do people have the right to judge others for the choices they make, that do not harm them? What homosexuals do in their bedrooms or even marriage does not hurt the morals of society? Homosexual marriage hurts no one.

I hope that you will consider my questions and thoughts on this topic. Keeping an open mind away from biases is necessary to see this issue for what it is. You must leave all religious connotations out of the clearly Government Issue. I trust you will take all of these things into consideration. I wait for a response.

Sincerely


Daria Hall