Daria Hall
Campus Box 858
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711
November 30, 2007
Traditional Values Coalition
139 C Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
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 advocate for religious freedoms, do not tolerate behaviors that destroy individuals, families, and culture, and believe sodomy leads to death. All of these and some other beliefs make up the virtues that the Traditional Values Coalition stands by. I also noticed that you have many satirical in nature pieces as well as partner sites express the homosexual agenda as ludicrous.
Nevertheless, your standards that your coalition follow either contradict each other or not factual. Not to be rude or condemning, but if you are advocating religious freedoms than Christian, Jewish, or Muslim beliefs should not be a factor Condemning homosexuals and protesting their marriage based on religious morals is against your own virtues. I also wonder if your coalition tolerates discrimination, hate crimes, or violence for these behaviors destroys individuals, families, and culture. What about tobacco and guns? Do you tolerate liars? You cannot advocate for freedoms but not tolerate everyone.
In addition, the belief that sodomy leads to death is absurd. Again, I mean no disrespect but copulation is not a direct linkage to death. Some diseases lead to death. Cancer can lead to death. Weapons can lead to death. Sexual intercourse between two consenting adults is not a direct link to death. Sodomy by definition can also mean sexual intercourse between heterosexual couples. Your coalition is only contradicting your own beliefs.
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
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Daria, I think you wrote some very strong and heated letters to these organizations. I give you props for not writing to organizations that agree with your beliefs yet, you wrote to those who oppose them. I thought your sarcasm was great and I think there is a huge need to tell groups that groups like them are making preposterous statements and they should be mocked and ridiculed. Overall great letters but I wouldn't expect a response back too soon. haha
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