Letter: Different views on nuclear waste, homosexuality

Monday, Sept. 8, 2003 | 8:21 a.m.

I have comments about two letters that you published on Aug. 27.

Charles B. Lewis equated homosexuality with murder and spousal and child abuse. What he fails to realize is that those acts are voluntary, whereas homosexuals are born that way. It's something in the genes.

Lewis says homosexuality is not part of the natural human order. I recently read about the theory that homosexuals came into being to provide additional hunters for starving clans, but without the danger of their ever adding more mouths to feed. This theory definitely makes more sense than Mr. Lewis' silly rant.

In the other letter, William Simmons warned of terrorist attacks against shipments of nuclear waste. He tried to compare a spent fuel shipping cast to such flimsy structures as buildings, trucks or railroad cars, which he warned could be targets of attacks. He said previous attacks have revealed the vulnerability of buildings and transport vehicles. He described them as "solid," when in fact they are quite hollow and poorly built when compared to a spent-fuel shipping cask. If he's really concerned he should think about where the spent fuel is currently stored -- inside one of those buildings he thinks is so vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

OSCAR R. FICK JR.