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Task force raises questions
With respect to the Fort Worth city task force on "gay rights," some sanity, please!In the midst of economic throes, we, the residents of this great city, will have to foot the bill for insurance coverage for sex-change surgery for city employees? Assuming, for argument’s sake, that people can do anything related to sex they want to, why are other people supposed to pay for that? Also, as to "domestic partner benefits," do we give "straight" live-in partners such benefits? And who will determine if there is a "committed relationship"? What if there is a breakup and one moves out? Who is supposed to monitor this? Won’t that be called invasion of privacy?"Training" for how to relate to this "specially protected" group? Now the city is getting into how people "interrelate" to each other? Is that even constitutional? Doesn’t the City Council have anything better to do with its time and our money?— Thomas F. Harkins Jr., Fort Worth No same-sex marriageHooray for pro-life and traditional family values!I wish to congratulate the voters of Maine — one of the most liberal states in the Union — for rejecting the counterfeit and oxymoronic notion of "same-sex marriage."Homosexual activists are hurting broken people desperately seeking affirmation of an objectively deviant lifestyle. They remind me of spoiled children dressing up and playing house, refusing to come in when Mom calls for dinner. The vote is significant because we are dealing with the forced affirmation of homosexuality under penalty of law. Gay marriage has now lost in all 31 states in which the question has been put to a popular vote.The time has come for a federal amendment banning same-sex marriage. — Gerry Jones, Fort Worth Killing the economy I opened another credit update from a major retailer. It wants to amend the terms on my account upward to 25.24 percent. If I were in default, it would charge 29.99 percent. I called the company and spoke with a very sympathetic and professional representative and her manager. Both assured me that I was a customer with a great credit history, having paid my bills on time and never defaulting. Unfortunately, there was nothing they could do about the terms. These terms were sent out equally to everyone. They had nothing to do with anyone’s credit history. It sounded oddly fair that everyone was being treated the same. We were being punished for the bad choices of a few, including those wizards who bought bundled loans of unknown quality and insured them with an underfunded insurer. As I pondered the ramifications of this, I noticed the account was managed by Citibank. These banks are borrowing from the Federal Reserve at 0.13 percent interest. All of these banks are imposing the same onerous rates. The same banks we bailed out are sucking the life out of this economy.— Michael Huber, Benbrook The lead article in the Oct. 30 Work & Money section made no sense at all.
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