To the editor:

I am ashamed of the intolerance on our campus. I have been at Iowa State for nearly four years, yet I am still surprised to hear students calling others queers or fags.

My aunt is a homosexual and I respect her because I was taught a person’s differences are what make them interesting. She is not tainted or evil but rather a great person who has chosen a different path.

Do you believe that God would have created a race of people who were so boring and complacent that all of society was the same?

There is no reason why some people aren’t born with a disposition to an alternative life-style. Some people are born with birth defects and some are born with the talent to be the best basketball player in the Big 12. So why can’t people be born homosexuals? Is it against the law of nature?

Why can’t you just turn your eyes away from things you don’t like?

People never seem to have trouble turning away when it is someone of the opposite gender they are interested in.

If you don’t like someone, it is always better to shut your mouth and walk away than to say something you’ll regret.

When I was five I thought girls were just gross. Was I or am I still gay? If I am, then I know 200 guys I graduated high school with that are gay, too.

We were all closed-mined and thought what all the others our age thought, and we were not afraid to tell the girls what we thought of them.

Now, 17 years later, I am planning to be engaged soon. My best friend is a girl! Who is to say that in 17 years your best friend won’t be a homosexual?

Try to look at life with an open-mind. You might be surprised who and what you will miss out on if you don’t.

Bob Francois

Junior

Mechanical engineering