recursion

I sent a letter to the editor to the Star Tribune regarding their recent editorial about comprehensive sex education. Sadly, the space prevents me from touching upon the importance of comprehensive sex education for gay and lesbians.

The letter is below:

I applaud your sex education editorial of March 22nd. As our nation's attention is focused on the war with Iraq, it is important to keep an eye on what is going on back home.

However, your editorial failed to mention the most crucial reason why comprehensive sex education must be offered to all students: everyone has sex someday. If we assume for a moment that abstinence-only sex education actually works and prevents young people from having sex until they're married, what then?

Unlike the Monty Python sketch where "every sperm is sacred", American couples generally do not want to have child after child. They need to know what options they have for birth control and how they work, not platitudes about staying chaste. Comprehensive sex education is the best way to ensure that Minnesota's young adults get the information they need.

We need more Republicans like this. Check out this hilarious letter to the editor from an enraged Republican. Enraged because Norm Coleman tested his leash by voting against drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.

Once a Democrat

I donated to Norm Coleman's Senate campaign. I thought he was a Republican who would support our president.

I was wrong and I will never donate or vote for another Democrat who changes parties. Once a Democrat, always a Democrat.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is nothing but tundra. Period. There is not one tree there and I would like to hear from any Minnesotan who has ever been there. Tundra, period.

The Native Americans who live there want the oil companies to develop ANWR and anyone who is against them is dooming them to life with no electricity, running water and other amenities that these protectionists enjoy every day of their lives.

Shame on them.

Michael B. Williams, Jacobson, Minn.

Yes! We need more wack-job Republicans like this, so they will nominate extreme right wing candidates with no chance of getting elected in Minnesota. Keep up the good work, Mr. Williams.