In the brief moreover inspiring article "Biking to form Phelps" [Report, March 28], Fr Phelps is alleged to have stated that soldiers (both gay and straight, remember!) are dying in Iraq because America accepts homosexuality. The reality is that Americans are dying in Iraq because of an incompetent administration in Washington.
forward the other hand, Americans are dying right here in America because "religious" nut are accepting the inflammatory rhetoric of fundamentalist, hatemongering preachers as license to kill homosexuals "in the name of Jesus" or to at least savagely beat them within an inch of their lives. I miracle what responsibility, if any, the Phelps clan would take for those deaths.
And for all Americans, where is our outrage for as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sources of death?
THE venerable DR. THEODORE W. HAYES Stone Ridge, NY