Minority running roughshod over majority

In his May 21 letter to the editor, “The last gasp of the white, straight majority,” Dave Starr misses the point completely. He complains that the “white, straight majority” forces its views on minorities and says that “majorities don’t get to rule over others.”

The opposite is actually true.

The LBGT community is a minority group that has achieved its goal of equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment and enjoys widespread support. The general attitude of the majority is one of peaceful coexistence, which Mr. Starr suggests that the majority should strive to create. If only the gay community would reciprocate.

Instead, they file and win lawsuits against those with closely held religious beliefs who decline to provide services for gay weddings. Forget peaceful coexistence.

The current issue regarding transgender people and bathroom use is another where a minority view prevails. The number of transgender people is exceedingly small, yet legislation requiring people to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth has created quite an outcry in North Carolina, and the resulting cancelled concerts will seriously impact their economy. President Obama decreed that transgender students can use the bathrooms of their choice or schools will lose funding.

Here we have a distinct minority augmented by the far left imposing its views over the majority. Let’s poll the parents for their input.

Cost prohibits the addition of transgender bathrooms, and males and females in each other’s bathrooms and locker rooms create obvious problems. So let’s try common sense: Anyone with male body parts uses the boys’ facilities; anyone without male body parts uses the girls’ facilities. Yes, that puts Caitlin with the boys. After reassignment surgery, she can join the girls.

Jennifer Anderson

Henderson

Phony issues

The May 20 letter “Federal bully” observes that our federal government is acting more and more like a bully to its own citizens. Seems that solving or even just addressing legitimate public issues such as crime, infrastructure deterioration, social decay or terrorism is difficult, while harassing innocent, law-abiding citizens over phony issues is not — and it’s a heck of a lot more fun.

For example:

— Actually improving our schools and dealing with mentally disturbed students is tough, while promoting and encouraging “transgenderism” is easy.

— Confronting the barbarism of dealing with organizations that abort babies and sell the body parts is unpleasant, while prosecuting those who reveal this practice is much more satisfying.

— Stopping terrorists is a difficult job, while harassing perfectly loyal and trustworthy people is enjoyable as they will take an enormous amount of abuse and never fight back.

But it appears that even our government may be tiring of bullying us and a solution has been developed. It used to be in Western democracies that if the people didn’t like what the politicians were doing, they would replace the politicians with new ones. It appears now that the politicians have decided that it is easier just to replace the current people with new ones.

James Moldenhauer

North Las Vegas

Respect for the law

In response to Keith Rogers’ Saturday front-page article on the BLM and Cliven Bundy, “Records show fear of ‘crazies’ ”:

The Review-Journal is so blinded by its apparent hatred of the Bureau of Land Management that you fail to focus upon the need for respect for the law within a civilized culture. If an American citizen can defy a legitimate government decree at any level and then summon a militia to defend his cause, then most of our rights — including those of the Review-Journal — stand in serious jeopardy.

Why does Mr. Rogers not focus more sharply on that critical concern?

Jimmie L. Franklin

Las Vegas