LETTERS
Inhumane
With Interest. I have followed
the protestations of the local
chapters of Amnesty Interna
tional and Clergy and 1-aity Con
cerned on behalf of the perse
cuted people of our planet.
However, I have not heard, read
or seen any members of the
aforementioned local human
rights organizations protesting
the inhumanities that are con
sistently rained upon occupied
Palestinians by the Israeli gov
ernment.
For instance, t‘)f> Palestinians,
who were thrown out of their
homes by the government of
Israel onto a no-man's land on
Dei 17, 1902. are spending the
summer there, after having
spent the winter and spring in
that barren land.
Do the local chapters of
Amnesty International and Cler
gy and Laity Concerned care'
Why are these local groups so
woefully silent on crimes com
mitted against Muslims in the
Middle Fast7 Could it he that
these local chapters and their
local sponsors are not interested
in human rights and dignity for
Muslims?
M. Roza Bohnam
Eugene
Name games
I am writing in response to a
commentary written bv t.in Sal
ciocia (ODfc. July IS) titled
"Christianity fails to honor
women."
It is unfortunate that she feels
women are excluded from
Chrisitianitv by the wording that
is used in the more common
Knglish translations of the origi
nal reek text of the Kittle. In
fact, the original Creek seldom
makes distinctions between
males and females
At the time when these trans
lations were made into hnglish,
it was common, and also gram
matically corroc t, for "he" or
“him" to be used for pronouns
in yvhii h no gender was speci
fied. The Knglish language,
unfortunately, is short on non
gender specific pronouns, with
the exception of the third person
(them, those, eti I
However, as the i lunate of our
society changes, so are the trans
lations of Scripture changing.
1 suggest to Lia that she read
through tin' News Revised Stan
dard Version of the Bible 1 think
that she will find that changing
a few pronouns makes the Bible
much more palatable and much
more inclusive
Christianity (the kind that
Christ taught) was inner intend
ed to be a white males-only
( luh Two of Christ's ( loses!
friends (Mary and Martha) were
women, and many of His teai fl
ings and experiem es were w ith
women.
Christianity was not intended
to he for tfie few. hut for all
Changing a few specific terms
does not change tfie meaning of
Christianity Christ's teachings
and his love are for women and
men.
Thomas Huckaba
Biology/Political Scianca
OCA thin veil
In a remit announcement by
Lon Mahon, the ()regon Citizens
Alliance served notice that his
organization will start a cam
paign to retail 14 stale represen
tatives who voted for HR I’ll)!)
I am deeply troubled by this
latest action of the OCA and
pledge my help and assistance
to my colleagues. regardless of
party. in their efforts to resist
nnv such recall effort Thin mat
ter transcends party lovaltv and
strikes at the heart of representa
tive government
Recall is appropriate for
malfeasance and impropriety,
for example, but not for voting
one's ion science on a very dif
ficult sot ini issue M\ col
leagues have mv full support on
tins matter
Mahon’s announcement < I ear
ly shows the citizens of Oregon
that his crusade to promote dis
crimination against gays and les
hums is motivated entirely by
greed and has nothing to do
with family values or any other
subterfuge he has i laimed to fur
ther his particular version of big
otry The Mahon family money
machine is interested only in the
fund-raising potential of the
plethora of local initiatives his
organization has planned for
Oregon
The OC.A has consistently
attempted to mislead Oregoni
ans by i hunting their i ampaign
of hate is only to guarantee that
gavs and lesbians are not grant
ed sjhh ini rights lilt {500 is. in
fad, their final victory, ns it
spe< ifu ally prohibits Iih al goy
ernments from granting spe< ml
rights to (MHiple based on sexual
orientation
Hut. faced with the loss ot
their divisive agenda for fiimf
raising, their allenlmii lurns not
to the celebration but to the v il
ification of tnv i olleagues The
moral bankrupt! v of ttieir cru
sade has been stripped of all of
its i over Oregonians i an now
i learlv see the OCA is merely a
thill and tattered veil for
Mahon's blatant money-grub
bing
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