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Uniting American Families Act
Not long ago, a friend of mine went abroad on vacation and met the woman of his dreams. Within a few months, she was in this country on a “fiancée visa.”
I am happy for them, but it hurts me that my Mexican partner — a mature, law-abiding, hardworking adult with whom I have been in a committed relationship for more than 15 years — is still unable to immigrate legally to the United States.
According to the 2000 Census, more than 36,000 couples like us are experiencing similar discrimination. Many Americans are not aware that gay and lesbian U.S. citizens cannot sponsor their foreign-born partners for immigration.
U.S. immigration law is based on the principle of “family unification,” yet gay and lesbian families are not afforded this basic dignity.
The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) currently before Congress seeks to rectify this injustice by securing the right of U.S. citizens to sponsor their partners for immigration; it does not redefine marriage, and it would not affect the Defense of Marriage Act.
I hope your readers will urge their senators and representatives to change the current discriminatory immigration policy and pass UAFA.
James Frazier
Lawrence
‘Expelled’ movie reviewThe Star’s reviewers showed their unwillingness to objectively cover the documentary, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” Their articles are riddled with fallacies and misstatements, belittling the participants and all the while avoiding the evidence presented.
In one article (4/17, Preview, “Truth isn’t always the point”) The Star’s movie critic gives credence to an obscure Web site’s assumption that the position of “Expelled” can’t be valid because its production company made other films for “faith and family.”
A review (4/18, FYI, “Anti-evolution screed lacks intelligence”) lambastes Ben Stein, “a Nixon administration functionary who reinvented himself,” yet fails to mention that Stein is a Yale-trained lawyer, an economist and a university professor.
These movie critics’ clear siding with evolutionists is very unfortunate. Thinking people will view the documentary and be disturbed at the refusal of media and academics to forthrightly discuss all the evidence and information.
Janet Harmon
Overland Park
After viewing the documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” I found Roger Moore’s movie review contains much that lacks intelligence itself, especially when the author states that the scientist interviewees were possibly chosen for their eccentric appearances.He is apparently unaware that Richard Dawkins, for example, was surely selected by Ben Stein because Dawkins, regardless of his looks, is a prominent atheistic scientist who is virulently opposed to intelligent design. Stein’s documentary becomes hilarious when Dawkins is filmed admitting to Stein that life on Earth could be the result of intelligent design as long as the designer was a being from outer space who was himself the product of atheistic evolution.
Stein used his skills acquired as a Yale-trained trial lawyer to meticulously build the case — using the testimonies of highly credentialed scientists such as Richard Sternberg, formerly a Smithsonian magazine editor, and Guillermo Gonzalez, an astronomy professor at Iowa State University — that a scientist, no matter his credentials, risks losing his job if he questions Darwinism.
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