Josh Morgan took me to task recently for speaking out against the self-proclaimed special rights agenda of the lesbian-gays-bisexual-transgendered crowd. Such are life's little vexations! I stand corrected: They are not a crowd, as they comprise fewer than 4 percent of the U.S. population. They are a very vocal minor minority that has the blessings of the media and people in high places.

The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network offers a training program to teachers called GLSEN Lunchbags 2 to use beginning at kindergarten level. It has a video, 141-page manual, game cards, etc. All designed to teach a variety of sexual lifestyle alternations. It has one titled "Deconstructing Definitions of Family." There are more than 4,000 Gay Straight Alliance clubs sponsored by GLSEN on middle, high school and college campuses. Shades of Hitler, as per my first letter. It is social re-engineering your kids, and we are losing. Sexual orientation is one thing and not immoral, but behavior is based on conscious choice -- choice for good or evil.

Josh asserted there is no gay agenda, yet his own words betray him when he listed the "multiple benefits" of same sex marriage, etc.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation on its website under "GLAAD Media Reference Guide: Offensive Terms to Avoid" says "Offensive: gay agenda or homosexual agenda." In plain farmer talk, gays have an agenda to deny they have an agenda.

In Michael Brown's book "A Queer Thing Happened To America -- and What a Long Strange Trip It's Been," he lists HRC, NGLTF, PFLAG, GLAAD, LBGT and Lambda Legal among others. They even have an annual "Creating Change" conference. Yes there is an agenda -- a "stealth agenda," as Brown put it.

Josh tries to equate race or ethnicity as being the same as being gay tendencies and orientation. It's not a true analogy as it is purely sexual feelings and choice. Feelings can change; your skin doesn't.

Josh made much of his western Kansas heritage, yet his advocacy betrays his words again. How so?

Our white ancestors who settled these plains have/had a long history and heritage of work, perseverance, marriage and family -- i.e. one man-one woman. Even before us, the American Indians followed the man-woman thing for thousands of years on these plains. The LGBT agenda to change our heritage is a recent anomaly in history. Its roots are in Marxism, i.e. Satan.

Forty-two states have one man-one woman marriage laws, all by choice of the voters. Eight have same-sex marriage laws all by court rulings, etc., in other words, by fiat.

The Defense of Marriage Act is federal law passed in 1996. I see the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on it. Justice Roberts again? Lord have mercy on us. Such are life's little vexations.

Josh, I'll give the LGBT type tolerance, but not respect, as respect has to be earned not demanded.

Don Desbien

Palco