Dear Editor:
RE: The Elora drag show opposition controversy.
There will be many more conflicts such as this as Canadians work out how different religions/world views can live side by side. How do we solve them?
Publisher Dave Adsett advocates for choosing peace in this situation. Will that always be possible?
A western Canadian news source reports that a transgender woman, with intact male sexual organs, repeatedly walked naked in front of young girls changing in the women’s change room for swimming lessons in the Saskatoon Shaw Centre. The municipality cites the human rights of trans people and Premier Moe threw the issue back to them when asked to intervene. Thankfully, there was no violence, just ongoing protests by parents.
How can what the parents see as indecent and child threatening behaviour be reconciled with the rights of trans-identified people? What one person sees as truth here is not what the other sees. The reaction of the authorities indicates that it is the girls who will lose out as no sane parent would allow their child to be exposed to such behaviour.
The Advertiser is doing a great job at allowing for a civilized discussion of these difficult issues.
I do not admire the letter writer who uses the pseudo-Christian lyrics of a Ron Sexsmith song to try to shame Christians into accepting ideas their holy book deems wrong. God certainly does discriminate against sinners and without repentance and belief in Jesus Christ there is no salvation or a place in heaven.
Jane Vandervliet,
Erin