On Equal Rights: Adam and Steve in the Garden

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This is a letter to the editor I recently had published in the local paper here in San Luis Obispo California.

Recently I saw a bumper sticker that said, “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!” Though it is inarguably true that the Bible does say Eve, there is still some chance that Adam and Steve might have taken better care of the garden.

On that same car was another sticker in the colors of the flag that read, “America, Home of the Free.” Now on one side of their bumper they claimed to be a proud patriotic defender of freedom, and on the other they were making an argument against equal rights for other Americans. I will be polite and call this unnoticed irony rather than hypocrisy.

If, as an American, you can not understand that you best defend your own rights by defending the rights of others, then please understand this: as long as you have your boot on the throat of another man’s rights, you are no more free than the length of your leg.

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