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Sailors’ kiss topical
It’s funny how the same picture can conjure up opposing feelings. I am referring to the photo of two female sailors sharing a long-awaited kiss, nothing more. Letter writer Jim Shubert (Dec. 30) claims he doesn’t have a problem with homosexual rights, as long as The Spokesman-Review doesn’t print a photo depicting those rights, essentially “rubbing his nose in it.”
Is it not the job of the S-R to inform us of what is current and significant in society (like it or not)? I’m fairly certain that two women in love, showing love, military or not, is both topical and relevant. Just as interracial relationships were groundbreaking a generation or two ago, homosexuality is ours now.
As a heterosexual married mother of two young and impressionable children, I will practice a different way than Shubert and let them decide. Where he resents, I will show joy, and what he finds “repulsive and morally offensive,” I will teach tolerance, compassion and, above all, love.
Would we not wish to find such things in all God’s children? Show the world that you shine, Shubert, because an open mind can let in the beauty that is all around you.
Roni Fox
Spokane