Letter to the Editor

Why the anger?

Ginger Fitzgerald, Wallkill
Posted 2/14/19

I sensed a high level of frustration while reading the letters to the editors in the January 30th edition of the WVT.

I had to go back and reread the column written by Kelli Palinkas because I …

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Letter to the Editor

Why the anger?

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I sensed a high level of frustration while reading the letters to the editors in the January 30th edition of the WVT.

I had to go back and reread the column written by Kelli Palinkas because I thought maybe I was too busy and never had a chance to read that week’s paper. Nope, I saw the crossword puzzle was done so I knew I read it. I read it again trying to figure out why are they so angry?

While women do now have the right to vote, it took women protesting to have that right. It didn’t just happen. The women who are pro choice are NOT anti-life. Please stop claiming the moral high ground on an issue as personal as a woman’s right to choose. The same people who call us anti-life also want to limit a women’s access to birth control. The Right to Life folks have a right to their opinion. They also have the option to adopt or foster children that are being cared for in state facilities. If every person who is so strongly against a woman’s right to choose would adopt or foster one or two of these children, there would be a fewer children in the system. To all the men who feel so strongly about this issue, stop talking. Please, just stop talking. Until men are held to the same standards of morality as women then you need to just step off. The courts are full of men who are not financially responsible for their children. Why is it that we have too much government except when it comes to people’s sex lives or personal decisions?

The millions of people marching since January 2017 are doing so because they are concerned about the rights of EVERY person in the country. Not just men, not just white people, not just the evangelicals. Many of them are marching for the first time. The 2016 election has brought an awareness that I have not seen in my lifetime.

I thought Kelli Palinkas’ column was well written. She spoke with people who seemed to appreciate the value of our democracy. I thought this was a sign that our community has realized we are all in this together. Tearing each other down, judging, discrimination have no place in this country and more importantly in OUR community. I hope that this newspaper values the narrative that Kelli’s column has provided. I hope Kelli continues to provide additional talking points for the community. I hope she continues to start conversations between neighbors. Maybe this is how things change; one person, one local newspaper, one local community at a time.