In Matthew Skuya’s Sept. 10 letter, “Hopeful message sprung from hate,” he claims that homosexuality is a “beautiful thing” because it involves two people loving each other. If loving each other is all that is required for a relationship to be valid, what about a 35-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy who love each other? What about a brother and sister who love each other beyond an appropriate family-type love? What about a 40 -year-old man and a 12-year-old girl?

If loving each other is all that is required for a “beautiful thing,” then anything is allowed as long as there is love.

Also, I don’t appreciate Matthew telling people that “it is impossible to love homosexuals while hating what they do.” It’s perfectly possible. While I do not agree with homosexuality, it does not stop me from having homosexual friends, and even caring deeply about them as people. There is much more to a person than just their sexual orientation, though Matthew does not seem to understand this.

Russell Graves

Senior

Computer Engineering