Writer exposed bias toward Christians

So much for the Daily Herald's New Year resolution clarion call for civility. Rarely have I felt the need to defend a letter I've written as I'm typically not berated like I was by Mr. Werdegar's letter of Jan. 7. To say I feel his letter came out of left field is an understatement.

Whereas my letter only served to clarify the Christian view of the claim, “God designed homosexuals that way,” as espoused by a previous letter, Mr. Werdegar's rebuke spent the better part of his letter asserting that the U.S. Constitution is the law of the land, a premise I never challenged in the first place.

Secondly, he said, “If the Mr. Van Dines of this country want to run their lives, and attempt to ruin the lives of others, based on selective quoting from either Testament, they have every right to do so.”

In a research paper such quotations are considered scholarly, so in support of a Biblical worldview to quote from the Bible would, in my opinion, be clearly indicated. To Mr. Werdegar, however, it is, “Attempting to ruin the lives of others.”

Furthermore, who exactly are “the Mr. Van Dines of this country” to which Mr. Werdegar refers? By context we must infer they are people who quote from the Bible. Who are the people who quote from the Bible? Perhaps Mr. Werdegar, instead of using the veiled phrase, “Mr. Van Dines of this country,” to refer to them might better have said, “The Christians of this country,” the group of people at which his prejudice was actually aimed.

Brian Van Dine

Carol Stream