Letter To Senator Brownback

January 11th, 2006 | by christine |

This was submitted to Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) by Kristi Bartholomew.
Senator Sam Brownback,

I am very concerned for the Gay and Lesbian constituents of Kansas and the rest of the country. I find your comments discriminatory and quite disturbing.

Do not think that you and the rest of your right wing cohorts are going to frighten this great country again and detract from that is really going. We, the GLBT community, will not be your scapegoat again. And of course your comments come as Rosa Parks is not even cold in the grave. As she once sat down for her rights, we will not give up seeking equality. We will no longer go to the back of the bus.

We are law abiding, tax paying, vote casting, loving human beings that are citizen of this country. We are Mothers, Fathers, Sisters and Brothers. We are also in every bit as capable of having a long lasting, monogamous, devoted relationship as any heterosexual.

Sir, don’t be afraid of what you do not understand. Educate yourself, without the blinders of misperception and prejudice. We are all just like you. Our family is no different that yours. Our families all worry about how the bills are going to be paid, who is going to take the kids to soccer practice, and what’s for dinner. We get up to an alarm clock and kiss each other good night.

The difference is people like you cast us in a different light. And that is wrong. We just want to have the same rights and protections your family expects. We are all the same on the inside. Everyone has sinned in their life. Who says it is the job of a mere mortal to decide which of “Gods Laws” should be followed and which should be ignored.

On judgement day I will meet My Maker and if I did not do what I was put on the Earth to do, only then will I be judged. It is not your right, nor have you been privileged by the Higher Power to pick and choose which of the laws to follow and which can be ignored. “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”

Thank you for your time,

Kristi Bartholomew

  1. 5 Responses to “Letter To Senator Brownback”

  2. By Tina J on Jan 12, 2006 | Reply

    Bravo…..

  3. By christine on Jan 12, 2006 | Reply

    I agree, good job Kristi

  4. By newbeginnings on Jan 12, 2006 | Reply

    Thank you Tina J and Christine. We all need to live our lives with our “eyes” and “minds” wide open.

  5. By Tina J on Jan 13, 2006 | Reply

    The exclusivity (is that even a word??? :)) our elected representatives practice when dealing will all matters has to be taken to task. We fund a war machine at the expense of the men fighting the war with the lack of body armor, but big bucks for those re-building Iraq. We fund tax breaks on the backs of our most vulnerable, the disabled, the elderly, the working poor, but of course, I am wrong in that statement. Just ask Dave Camp, there are no cuts for this segment of our population. Of course it will be up to us who care to explain this ‘fuzzy math’ to those with reduced benefits. We are only as strong as the weakest member of our society.

  6. By christine on Jan 14, 2006 | Reply

    You are absolutely right about all of that. And unfortunately it’s not enough for our people to be physically or financially weak … those of us still standing are under attack every day in other ways. They divide us by campaigning & legislating against gay people, Muslims, lawyers, war-protesters, etc. They destroy our unions by sending our jobs away and not enforcing the regulation that protects us. Now they’re going after the MEA by trying to sneak religion in to public schools (how far away are public funded private schools once we allow religion in our science classes?) They suppress the vote and commit election fraud. And with their Darwinian approach to public policy, they take food out of the mouths of our poor.

    But, what’s a few suicides, broken marriages, bankruptcies, and foreclosures among thieves?

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