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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Letter for AP Gov
107 Estevan Dr.
Bismarck, ND 58503
February 23, 2005
Congressman Earl Pomeroy
1501 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman Pomeroy,
My name is Mitchell Grant Smith. I’m a senior from Century High School. I’m concerned about the issue of gay rights.
It is like the oppression and slavery of the blacks, the hatred of immigrants, womens’ past lack of rights. Again and again in America the fundamental thing we stand for is paradoxically turned from. But each time, we have turned around and eventually embraced what it is we turned from, realizing our prejudice. Just as blacks are no longer enslaved nor segregated, women now have suffrage, so shall one day gays have all their granted rights invested in them by the Bill of Rights.
I believe it is time for people to open their sewn shut eyes and realize the truth: that gays are people too, and that as a people they are guaranteed the right to marriage and to be treated the same as heterosexuals. There is no argument justifying the current treatment of gays in the U.S., and there never will be. Being homosexual is not nor ever will be a choice. I believe it is your duty as a congressman to dispel and thwart this prejudice against the gays, and to lobby for their rights with dogged determination. This oppression of a group of people must stop.
I appreciate your reading of this letter, and look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Mitchell Grant Smith.
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