In his Oct. 22 column, Cal Thomas makes much of the fact that “Obama won the election with just 52% of the popular vote and a margin of 7% over Sen. John McCain,” as if that makes him less of a president.
Mr. Thomas needs to be reminded that President Bush won his election over John Kerry by the narrowest margin in a re-election in all of U.S. history, yet bragged about his political capital and acted as if he had a mandate from the entire population. Cal Thomas didn’t complain about that.
Secondly, I would like to point out that gay men were drafted and served honorably beside straight brethren in World War II. If gays were a threat to “our ability to fight and defend the country,” how come we won that one?
Despite Mr. Thomas, the military has already proven itself to be a “test lab,” and the gays passed the test by fighting and dying just as did the straights.
And the claim that social activists “despise biblical morality” is absurd. Did Martin Luther King Jr. despise biblical morality?
Dorothy Sedley
Fresno
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