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To: mark silvers who wrote (18455)	6/27/1998 3:46:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Mark, there was a really nice letter in the San Francisco Chronicle last week that I thought you might enjoy. Its theme reinforces my feelings about all the religious battles over here at Ask God, and the seeming difficulty some people have seeing the forest for the trees: Editor--Whenever a group of people are maligned publicly, we are all diminished. It degrades public discourse. But when a U.S. senator speaks out in a public forum, as Senator Lott did recently, to vilify homosexual people, it is an assault on our country's well being. This country is dependent upon the notion that people who are different can, and should, live together in peace. Those of us who experience the richness of gifts that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people bring to our communities must speak out against this shameful attack on a part of our community. I believe that each and every person is a child of "life's longing for itself," as Kahil Gibran said. In attacking those whose sexual orientation is different from his own, Senator Lott is attacking this sacred breath of life in its richness of human life forms. But more than anything else, he is diminishing himself in the esteem of his country. I pray this man may will one day open his eyes and his heart to all human beings. But, in the meantime, I hope he will never speak again about people and matters of which he is so woefully ignorant. Rev. Margot C. Gross The First Unitarian Universalist Church San Francisco