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To the E ditor :
F rancie N evill
ero Population Growth is an organization
that has been around for many years now
and has put forth all of the points Marty Davis
made (“You Say You Want a Revolution?”
Jan. 17J.
If you look at a time-population graph, you
will find that it took until around World
War II for Earth’s population to reach 1 bil
lion. The time difference between each suc
ceeding billion has been shorter and shorter,
and now the world’s population is approaching
7 billion.
Both in the 80 percent of the world’s popu
lation that is Third World and in the “people
of color” races in the United States, the birth
rate would make a hutch of rabbits blush. The
people with the best genes, the best education,
the best family backgrounds and the best envi
ronment usually contain their children to two
or fewer. It says a lot about the respective gene
pools when those who have the most to give to
society at large have the least amount of kids
and those who, for the most part, are a con
stant drag and contribute little, if anything, of
value pollute decent society with endless
swarms of litters.
The Kx)k The Bell Curve gave massive
amounts of evidence of genes vs. probable out
come. Unfortunately, 99 percent of those who
shouldn’t he allowed to breed also are those who
hardly read at all, if they even know how to
read.
The lineage of intelligence is intelligence.
The lineage of inbred stupidity and violence is
more stupidity and violence, as our prison make
up amply can demonstrate.
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here to begin in response to Eric Nor-
herg’s ignorant rant?! 1 “Bee Stings,"
Jan. 17| Others likely will point out his many
errors of logic and fact, so 1 will focus on what he
missed, and what nearly always is missing when
talking about the Boy Scouts— the hoys.
The BSA’s official national policy is that gay
people are not moral by definition. Although
this scorn unjustifiably has been focused on
adult Scout leaders, it applies as well to hoys
who are or would he Scouts, including the ones
who might he gay.
Few people have shown concern for what
harm this might he doing to these hoys. They
deserve far better.
Boys who have done nothing to deserve this
judgment fall victim to a contemptible blend of
hypKKrisy and stupidity. When I was a Cub
Scout years ago 1 was no less moral than my
peers, hut I knew even then that I was gay; 1 just
didn’t know the word for it.
While railing against Multnomah County
Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey for voting
“against free speech,” Norbcrg would have gay
hoys “keep their orientation to themselves.”
Boys who believe they are gay need trustworthy
people with whom they can open up, not people
who would have them suppress their feelings, a
recipe for harm.
Rojo has provided courageous leadership in
seeing that Multnomah County complies with
its own nondiscrimination rules. She also is
helping ensure that no hoy is harmed by being
judged by a bigot or a fool. What possibly could
make more sense ?
Get the picture?
J im C lay
To the E ditor :
Portland
1
am writing to thank you for your article about
intersex [“Is It a Boy or a Girl.7” Jan. 17].
With five children each day in the United New York state off mind
States having their healthy genitals cut on with To the E ditor :
out their consent, raising awareness with articles
was saddened to see a television news inter
like this is crucial. 1 hope readers who are new to
view with three New Yorkers visiting Port
this topic will take the infonnation you present land during the peace rally Jan. 18. They said it
ed to heart, support the Intersex Society of felt like a slap in the face to New Yorkers who
North America and start talking about intersex lost so much in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
with parents, friends, teachers, doctors, lovers
1 wish I could invite them to sit down over a
and more.
cup of coffee and tell them: Because we want
I have one concern about your otherwise peaceful resolution dtx's not mean we condone
excellent piece. 1 feel the photograph that head what happened Sept. 11. Marching for peace
ed the article (a naked intersex child held down dtx's not demean the lives lost in those terrorist
and exposed) was dehumanizing to the child attacks; on the contrary, we all lost a great deal
pictured and frankly nauseating in its graphic that day and in the days since. We want to
violence.
ensure that terrorism dcx\s not become a way of
I am not intersex, and 1 have not been life for the planet.
abused in this way, hut I literally could not read
1 also would tell them: Iraq is not al-Qaeda.
the story until I covered the picture. I only can There is no evidence that Iraq was involved in
imagine the effect it might have had on sur that event. Invading Iraq in response to the
vivors of procedures like these.
al-Qaeda attacks on the United States is like
I know the picture was chosen with good wiping out all the jackrabbits because they
intentions. I know you wanted to communi inhabit the same area as the rattlesnake that hit
cate the horrific violence perpetrated against you. Yes, Saddam Hussein should he removed,
intersex individuals by doctors. I completely but not at the cost of innocent Iraqi lives.
support you in that intention, hut 1 feel you
If New Yorkers need to direct their anger at
would have achieved that goal without the someone, look to President Bush. He is
exploiting the Sept. 11 attacks to justify his
picture.
You clearly communicated the devastating agenda for controlling oil interests in the Mid
effects of these “standard medical procedures” dle East, creating the illusion of the “axis of
of mutilation, medical display, shaming and evil” to appeal to our fears while robbing us of
abuse with the words of intersex activists and civil rights and other needed protections here
intersex genital mutilation survivors. I hope in our own hack yard.
you will continue talking about intersex
while responding to the concerns of the com- I T erri G rayum
munity about how that communication hap- i Portland
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