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    Monarchs at Risk
reveal the twisted way many people on the religious right justify their hypocritical support of Trump.
Woooohoooo! Vesta, you have done it again!!!! Mountains and valleys and oceans and continents of thanks!
History has shown us people
like this before, and it has shown
the results of this kind of thinking.
It is not always in god’s name; it
is however always the same basic message. We are ordained; they are evil. Don’t forget Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, the Taliban, Al Queda,
the Inquisition, and others. Don’t forget the millions called out as abominations, the other, and killed or banished. We should not accept, spread, or publish, this kind of dim- witted political and religious inanity, confusing and equating it with truth.
Thank you for bringing attention
to this most important topic! (Sonoma Joins Tri-National Campaign to Protect Monarch Butterflies - August Gazette)
I was informed earlier today that
the Santa Cruz Monarch count this year is down from 7000 last year to 700 this year! And then your article appeared...! How timely! Thank you!
 I now know where to look to find the Gazette here in Sonoma! I have been forwarding this article to many and posted it on FB too.
I love you, Cindy
Fools proliferate when we feed their voice. In this case the writer was using language that was not only divisive, but was reprehensible.
Wonderful - more butterflies not less - more plants to feed them not less - more habitat not less! We VOTE our way to healing the planet! ~ Vesta
Please be Careful
with Truth
I really appreciate your paper, and especially the range of views. One of the times I disagreed with the ACLU (long time member) was their defense of the Nazis marching through a Jewish neighborhood of Holocaust survivors. I fear the repercussions from normalizing the “very fine people on both sides” view.
   I was dismayed and frankly appalled that the letter “A touch of truth” was published (September hazette LETTERS). The idea that all ideas have merit and should be published is naive and in this case painfully divisive.
I realize it is a fine line between censorship and simply ignoring idiots. Of course, reading that letter might make some people more aware that there are people who believe that stuff; it could also inflame some people to do “god’s will” by attacking gays, atheists, agnostics, and liberals.
The writer uses the word “fact,” when in fact he is expressing his radical religious views. He is entitled to them, however hateful they are to the many of us who do not share his narrow, negative, and divisive views. Belief in any sort of god is personal; there is no proof other than whatever passes for faith for that person. The writer seems to believe and, in this letter it seems, hope for a vengeful god to inflict eternal torture on those who disagree with him.
Keep up the good work, keep walking the lines.
It is this kind of radical judgment and, I believe, political view that has guided so many people now and throughout history to label those who disagree as heretics, enemies, abominations. This writer conflates liberals with satanists, gays with abomination.
I believe in a free press. I cannot censor but I do eliminate some letters that are pure rage. You should read some that come to me! But in this case I had just written about diversity and I had two responses to that editorial that were submitted as letters to readers. I do publish articles and letters that I find objectionable.
The writer conflates Trump with godliness, and writes that Trump was preordained as president by god. This is simply disgraceful and deeply dangerous. It does, however,
Thanks for your letter! ~ Vesta LETTERS cont’d on page 4
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Harry Fleishman
PS. I did not capitalize god on purpose. I did conflate the religious and political in this writer’s views on purpose.
  



































































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