Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Today is World AIDS Day. It’s an awful disease. Government is not doing enough, and the religious are doing even less. The US branch of the Salvation Army ignores this day to ring bells in suburbia. They divert…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I think that we are all on the edge of our seats about the plight of Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who was arrested in Sudan after she let her class name a teddy bear “Mohammed.” Yesterday, 600 protesters…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I wrote to you in July as an angry taxpayer about the cost of limiting marriage to heterosexual couples as revealed by The Williams Institute at UCLA. Their recent analysis for Maryland revealed that their 8,000 same-sex couples,…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Los Angeles Times Staff Writer David Pierson wrote a wonderful article about the “secret tunnels” in Fresno’s Chinatown in their November 26 edition. According to urban legend, the tunnels were created so the residents could crawl around without…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – The Human Rights Campaign released their annual Buying Guide for Equality last week. In addition to rankings for brands and stores, it has fun marketing facts, such as “77% of heterosexuals are likely to consider a brand that…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Milton Bradley created the Game of Life in 1860. The game has had many variations but has always included ‘marriage’ as a milestone signifying the addition of a member to the family and an occasion for ‘gifts’ from…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I’m sorry to hear that your mother-in-law, Eunice Schriver, is in the hospital. I wish I could have a mother-in-law. The woman who fills that role is just as vibrant, just as delightful and just as much of…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Last night a friend of mine made an interesting observation. He pointed out that traditionally, marriage has been about ‘sameness.’ Same religion, same interests, same city, same house, same race, same bed. Why would it be so strange…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Abraham Lincoln constantly ranks among the three top U.S. presidents. Before he became president, though, he spent a lot of time arguing against a guy named Stephen A. Douglas. Senator Douglas believed that in a democracy the people…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Happy Thanksgiving! At the dinner table this afternoon my mother told me that her friend Harold had shown her pictures of his grandchildren for the first time last week. She said that he hadn’t wanted to show them…Read More »
