Extremists give bad view of Christians

I think you give a bad impression of the Christians of the area by giving credence to those with extremist views, like the Illinois Family Institute. Most Christians I know are not hate mongers and bigots. Reading your paper’s letters though, one would assume that Christians who are judgmental and intolerant were in the majority in our community.

Ms. Higgins (Aug. 27) weighed in on the qualities for an adoptive parent, building straw man after straw man argument, She went to ludicrous ends to try to prove her point. Perhaps, if the shoe were on the other foot, she could see. Should we ban all religious people from adopting because some have murdered doctors, blown up buildings, flown planes into buildings? Of course not.

As an adult adoptee, I am sick of the so-called “religious right” using their bigotry to intrude on adoption. Now they are against gay adoption. It would be a wonderful world if there were no adoptions at all and everyone could raise their own children in a loving home, but that is not likely to happen any time soon.

Bigots find justification for their bigotry in the Bible. These sanctimonious interlopers are the kind of people I would not want to see destroy a child by being allowed to adopt them.

The problem with the Bible is that believers believe whatever they wish. It is useless as a standard because there is no agreement; each side is saying they are the only ones who get it right. The only thing the community seems to agree on is that we can find more reasonable spokespeople than the Illinois Family Institute for anything.

Kevin Jackson

Naperville