Religious bias is evident

If you believe the destructive and irrational power of religious fundamentalism belongs only to the Middle East, look at two articles in the Deseret Morning News on April 6.

In Bountiful, the PTA protests a scholarship ad in the national PTA's magazine placed by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. The Bountiful PTA states "Alternative lifestyles cannot foster intelligent cooperation of any sort ... because they are not scientifically sound." What? If there is a debate, who is stopping intelligent cooperation? And what kind of scientific evidence does the Bountiful PTA need in order to accept that gay youths really exist?

Thank goodness for another news item on Jon Huntsman Sr., whose moral wisdom and generous philanthropy are given to fight a cancer-causing virus called HPV. When legislation was proposed this year in Utah to do the same, it was shot down by conservative lawmakers who, apparently, want to preserve this killer virus as a deterrent to sexual promiscuity.

Darin Menlove

Castle Valley