dojA001447.xml
Title
dojA001447.xml
September 11 email body
Monday, December 10, 2001 10:11 PM
ustice for all
Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director
Office of Management Programs, Civil Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Dear Mr. Zwick:
Having seen the consequences of blind prejudice in WWII I came out of the Army with a changed goal in life; therefore, abandoning (albeit profiting still from engineering courses taken before enlisting) what my father hoped in his footsteps I would do, I went into seminary and have been in Episcopal ministry, now retired, for 52-years. Indeed, with reasoned measurement I have devoted my life to raising up the oppressed and downtrodden of life. I both regret, therefore, and protest the discriminatory policy of my government toward gay/lesbian survivors of the atrocities of September eleventh. In this respect I strongly disassociate myself from some of my Christian brothers, e.g. Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Committed relationships are mutually creative and supporting regardless of sexual orientation. Indeed, in my experience I have observed that they, gay and lesbian people--just like divorced people in rigidly biblically forbidden second marriages--have been blessed by God. I ask that the United States of America strive after a morality of a higher order than that of the Taliban or the fanatical adherents of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Buddhist fundamentalism! Survivors are survivors feeling pain and sorrow--not to mention economic suffering--whether they are survivors of committed heterosexual or lesbian/gay relationships. Please do not shame our Nation by playing to the pit!!!
Individual Comment
Bar Harbor, Maine
ustice for all
Mr. Kenneth L. Zwick, Director
Office of Management Programs, Civil Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Dear Mr. Zwick:
Having seen the consequences of blind prejudice in WWII I came out of the Army with a changed goal in life; therefore, abandoning (albeit profiting still from engineering courses taken before enlisting) what my father hoped in his footsteps I would do, I went into seminary and have been in Episcopal ministry, now retired, for 52-years. Indeed, with reasoned measurement I have devoted my life to raising up the oppressed and downtrodden of life. I both regret, therefore, and protest the discriminatory policy of my government toward gay/lesbian survivors of the atrocities of September eleventh. In this respect I strongly disassociate myself from some of my Christian brothers, e.g. Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Committed relationships are mutually creative and supporting regardless of sexual orientation. Indeed, in my experience I have observed that they, gay and lesbian people--just like divorced people in rigidly biblically forbidden second marriages--have been blessed by God. I ask that the United States of America strive after a morality of a higher order than that of the Taliban or the fanatical adherents of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Buddhist fundamentalism! Survivors are survivors feeling pain and sorrow--not to mention economic suffering--whether they are survivors of committed heterosexual or lesbian/gay relationships. Please do not shame our Nation by playing to the pit!!!
Individual Comment
Bar Harbor, Maine
September 11 email date
2001-12-10
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2001-12-10
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“dojA001447.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed October 1, 2026, https://911.dev.chnm.gmu.edu/items/21817/.