Writer was simply crying wolf

I had a lot of fun reading Mr. Rider’s letter in the Dec. 31 edition ... shades of “cry wolf” — the country is going to hell in a handbasket.

Shame on the hippies for promoting peace and free speech! We want war and government eavesdropping! After all, “liberal thinking will lead us into communism.”

Having been one of those standing on the street waving Vote No on Proposition 8 signs and having uttered no obscenities myself and having heard none from others doing the same, I do believe that the obscenities came from the folks supporting the proposition ... which interestingly enough was financed heavily by the Mormon church.

Using Mr. Rider’s logic I guess that means that men can have multiple wives which, of course, would mean the end of women having the right to vote and stoning females who get pregnant without the benefit of clergy.

Personally, I was shocked by the number of churches with the Vote Yes on Prop. 8 signs on their lawns while advertising that to allow same-sex marriages would lose them tax-free advantages. Talk about crying wolf. They lost their tax-free status when they put that sign on their lawn.

Considering the courts have already ruled that the whole  Prop. 8 business is unconstitutional and the easily misguided and itching-to-tend-to-other-folks’-business church folk believe they can ignore the Constitution, what will come next? I’ll take hippie thinking any day.

In the same paper, the editorial about the choice of Hilda Solis to be Secretary of Labor and her AFL-CIO backing makes a lot more sense to me than, for instance, if her backing had come from Wal-Mart. I would expect the Secretary of Labor to be a real advocate for the working folks ... and that is what labor unions are all about.
Carolyn J. Giddings
Porterville