Sunday, June 19, 2005

Gary Clays letter to the Daily News Sunday, Why is paper so interested in promoting diversity, makes me ashamed to be an American. I am sure that Mr. Clay really is, as he proclaims, a Christian extremist, and no less sure that Jesus is aware of that.

Im on fairly good terms with Jesus myself, so Im also confident that one day Jesus will give Mr. Clay a swift kick in the you-know-what for his silly and quite un-Christian views.

But we must give Mr. Clay his due: He has the courage to announce his bigoted and intolerant views quite openly and publicly. Mr. Clay also declares that the next time the Daily News prints a story about ethnic diversity on its front page, he will cancel his subscription.

Interestingly enough, the same edition carried on its front page an enlightening story about the Islamic Center of Bowling Green and its chairman, Dr. Nagy Morsi.

As a patient of Dr. Morsis, I can attest that he is an excellent physician, a fine gentleman and a credit to our community. No doubt Mr. Clays willful ignorance kept him from learning that Muslims believe also in Jesus and Moses. Let us hope that Mr. Clay has gone off to sulk and desert the readership of the Daily News, for which we can all be grateful.

It is my sense that the Daily News is not promoting diversity as Mr. Clay complains, but merely reporting it, in the right and proper manner.

Alas, I cant end this without taking issue with your food reviewer in Thursdays paper. The new Split Tree is, if anything, better than before, and your reviewers comments strike me as trivial and subjective in the extreme. I hope he/she will indeed give the Split Tree another chance.

Nolan Porterfield

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