Ministers — or public menace?

I find it a bit hypocritical of our street preacher "Lonnie" to tell conferencegoers that they are followers of Satan and will go to hell, but during the other months of the year he finds it OK to take money from all us "filthy" people when he installs carpets here in the Salt Lake Valley. Isn't our money "filthy" also?

Ron Briggs

Taylorsville

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Those who think the city is bowing to the LDS Church by creating a buffer zone at conference are wrong. The city is creating a buffer zone to bow to the constitutionally-mandated right of peaceable assembly.

Bruce T. Forbes

Kearns

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I will be in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday BECAUSE the protesters will be present for LDS general conference. Why wasn't this one of the answers on your "quick poll" today?

David J. Vergobbi

Salt Lake City

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Their vulgarity, meanness and hatred for what is sacred suggest the street preachers have never read John 8, where Jesus confronted the Pharisees and taught that their behavior proved their parentage.

Richard Smurthwaite

Bountiful

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There should be a comic strip in the funnies called "Lonnie and the Street Preachers." They should live next door to Mr. and Mrs. Dagwood Bumstead.

Douglas Lister Cotant

Salt Lake City

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If I go onto public land and stand underneath a natural bridge, I could get arrested because the NPS wants to honor the religious beliefs of the Hopi and Navajo tribes. But if I go onto private property, owned by the LDS Church, and behave in the same manner, I will have the protection of the ACLU, the courts and Mayor Anderson. The double standard is incredible.

Gary Hulet

Lindon

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