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Thanks so much for your wonderful contribution
to our community and to all that is important to the understanding of a
diverse group of people. “We” are all important and I know you do your
best to keep that spirit alive.
Spencer Kingswell
Whether one’s cause is the environment,
open government, civil rights or something else, many Delawareans feel our
state legislators, particularly our senators, are failing us miserably.
What do they not understand about representative government?
As it happens, Delaware has no educational
requirements whatsoever for its lawmakers—and it shows. A representative
told me his religion aids him in voting against sexual orientation
equality in the workplace. Another told me she supports amending our
Delaware constitution to prohibit gay marriage because the Amish want it.
A senator opposes workplace equality for gay people because he is revolted
by our private lives. Another opposed labor fairness for gay people
because he was sure we recruit children to our “lifestyle.”
Such ignorance would be laughable, except
that this is how our elected leaders govern us in Delaware. Frankly we are
disgraced as a state by those lawmakers who remain so cheerfully
uninformed—as well as those lawmakers who are too timid to oppose them.
Whereas May 17 found Cuba hosting the
International Day Against Homophobia presided over by President Raul
Castro’s daughter, our legislators cannot even agree that employment
fairness for all Delawareans befits a democracy.
Douglas
Marshall-Steele
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