Marriage and Prop. 8

Proposition 8 was voted on by the people of California, then became a law prohibiting gays

and lesbians from getting married. Why would a federal judge overturn California's gay marriage ban? Is he helping to read everyone's rights or just for the homosexuals?

In the dictionary, marriage means the institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family. Gay means male homosexual and lesbian means female homosexual. Now why would homosexuals wants to marry?

Their civil rights have been instituted as men and women. Why would homosexuals segregate themselves, then claim their rights? Biologically, homosexuals are men and women. If a gay marries a lesbian, there will be no problem because it is a marriage between a man and a woman and this is their civil right. ...

Homosexuals must stop agitating about the law of marriage that has already been proven and voted on by the people of California. Homosexuals are causing the world to tumble instead of helping make the law right. This is my idea; what is yours?

Rogelio Labrador

Winchester

Support our City Council

There has been some discussion lately about what kind of role our current Temecula City Council should take in pursuing the investigation of the obvious influence of Granite Construction over the Local Agency Formation Commission in the annexation application.

Our Council has operated responsibly in the management of our assets and have been fiscally conservative. Because of that, we are not threatened with financial crisis like the rest of our governments are and had the funds available for the annexation application that was in the master plan since the city was formed. They are all fully committed to making this the best city it can possibly be — for us.

They are not filling their own pockets, and instead, in the seven years since I have lived here, have built a state-of-the-art theater in Old Town, a vibrant library and a new sports park big enough to host statewide tournaments. They are the best possible team to protect us from Liberty Quarry. I agree that we should go after LAFCO, but the council can't responsibly spend our money to do it.

Please, be wise citizens and support our current city council when it is time to vote.

Robbie Adkins

Temecula

History of Islam was one-sided

Jim Horn's interpretation of Islamic history neglects to mention some important facts

If this were standard Muslim treatment to Christians everywhere, why is there still a significant Christian population after 1,400 years in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, and why, after 400 years of Ottoman Muslim rule, are the countries of Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece, Cyprus and Armenia still predominantly Christian?

Also, he does not consider the possibility that many of these Christians converted for their own reasons.

I ask the good people of this region not to buy into Jim Horn's scare tactics. They are designed to stoke fear and stir up resentment against our Muslim neighbors. It's easy to cave to popular sentiment and fear-mongering against Muslims in a post-9/11 world, but as I was taught long ago, what is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.

Michael Carrozzo

Murrieta

Let's get to the bottom line

Aren't we all getting a little weary of the "he said, she said” letters coming from people who don't even live in the area? Let's get down to the bottom line.

Do the 300,000-plus residents of Temecula, Murrieta, Rainbow or Fallbrook want one of the largest open pit gravel mines in the United States in our communities? The answer (from the residents) is no, we don't. It's as simple as that.

So, people, it is time to put your action where your intentions are. If you want to stop this unacceptable project, make some noise. Start your own group — the more the better. Write to the Riverside supervisors; tell them how you feel. Write the Temecula City Council; tell them what you want. Go to www.nogravelquarry.com and learn about the issues. All the information is there.

Tell your friends. E-mail your friends. Put it on Facebook. Call SOS Hills to have a presentation for your HOA. Volunteer. Donate to help others stop it. Do something to help, if you are not. Make enough noise in public, and they will just want it to end. What matters is the action that you take.

Jerri Arganda

Rainbow