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Gay marriage opponents twist Bible's message to fit agenda

Over the past few weeks, there has been increased scrutiny on the whole issue of same-sex marriage. The country is fairly polarized for or against, and the issue will be a political football on both sides in the fall elections. But with all the hype about the sanctity of marriage and concern that the entire downfall of the known civilized world rests on preventing gays and lesbians from being granted something ordained from heaven, I wondered if something subtle is hidden in all this furor. I admit that I first wondered why the conservative community, which says marriage should not be tainted by these "other" kinds of unions, doesn't do something about the number of divorces that take place in the United States. With 50 percent of all marriages ending in divorce, something has a funny smell in this here country.

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Women pumped up about hoops, too

Evan Rondeau, are you living under a rock from the 1950s? I was completely shocked and offended by the opening to your article "Basketball takes TV by storm" (SN 3/1) where you stated, "Girlfriends wait with fear and trepidation while their boyfriends' hormones get revved up." Regarding Championship Week, did you ever consider for a moment that perhaps women appreciate college basketball just as much as men?

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Up to speed

In an ideal world, everyone goes the speed limit and is a kind and courteous driver. In the real world, however, people don't go the speed limit if it's too slow, and it's pretty hard to find anyone who actually goes 35 mph on westbound Saginaw Street from Hagadorn Road to Coolidge Road.

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Wrong rally

For a group of more than 1,000 strong, MSU's Graduate Employees Union is quick to respond to a call to arms.

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Gutting graduate programs hurts diversity, education, research

Provost Lou Anna Simon recently has released her vision for the reorganization of the liberal arts at MSU.

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Living & learning

Step into either Case or Holmes Halls on an average weekday, and you'll discover a place where many students living next to one another have the same classes, majors and interests.

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'U' reaction

Monday's State News read, "One man is dead and another wounded after an early morning shooting at an East Lansing 7-Eleven store." It's a sentence any MSU student hopes never to read and a sentence no reporter for The State News ever wished to write.

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Nader won't fool reader in 2004

I'll admit it. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. I decided to support him after I heard him speak at the MSU Auditorium four years ago.

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Don't turn college football into NFL

For the people who want instant replay to be standard in NCAA football and want a playoff system or want Maurice Clarett to be eligible for the NFL - please do me a favor, turn off your televisions on Saturday and wait until Sunday.

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'Skin-deep' doesn't delve deep enough

When I picked up The State News on Thursday, I was so pleased with the picture and front page article ("Skin-deep"). Then, I turned to page two.

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Everybody should get marriage rights

An unfortunate number of Americans are very homophobic. The response of the president and other high-profile politicians toward what is happening in San Francisco, the "activist" judges in Massachusetts and a county in New Mexico suggests Americans are (at the moment) incapable of accepting one simple fact: Gay people are not going away. Creating an amendment banning gay marriage is not going to benefit anyone.

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Simon needs to address theater

I am a senior theater major, and I am worried. Stated in a recent installment of "Liberal Arts Reorganization" was the fact that Provost Lou Anna Simon still hasn't decided what she is going to do with the Department of Theatre.

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Same-sex marriage not for everybody

A proposed constitutional amendment would make same-sex marriages illegal. If you do not favor same-sex marriage, by all means, do not have a same-sex marriage.

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'Teen Wolf,' time travel to blame for so-called 'left' media

There are some rumors floating around that newspapers and the mass media at large are ravenously liberal and unapologetically Democrat.

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Group's terrorist tactics stifle speech

On the evening of Feb. 25, a business meeting of the MSU College Republicans hosting Barbara Grutter (Grutter v.

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Fundamentalist views divide world

I'm writing in response to Lee Ehlers' article "Christian speaks up for religion, tries to end atheists' rants" (SN 2/27). What a glib supposition you make to equate atheism with those who abhor the religious right. I am very much not an atheist, an agnostic, yes, but not so far up on my soapbox that I am unwilling to allow the possibility of my views being incorrect - the same of which cannot be said for you and your ilk. Moreover, lumping a portion of the scientific community in with atheists - because of their ridiculous belief in the Big Bang - is beyond absurd.

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Listen up

Students talk, but do administrators ever listen to them? Provost Lou Anna Simon held a forum Thursday supposedly to receive student feedback about her plans to restructure the liberal arts programs.

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Religious beliefs personal choices

Once again, John Bice "Religious affiliation based on parents' faith, geographic regions" (SN 2/26) has used a poorly contrived argument to attack the Christian faith.

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Double take

The State News would like to expound on our opinion of why instant replay in Big Ten football is a bad idea.

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Allen makes good point in bad way

I wanted to write in support of Alice Dreger's comments ("Cartoon offensive to LBGT community" SN 2/25) pertaining to Ed Ronco's editorial justifying the publishing of Nate Allen's cartoon (SN 2/23). Ronco makes a perfectly valid point that the continued occurrence of homosexual marriage does nothing in any way to taint heterosexual relations.