Opposing stalls

Holier than thou

Regarding “Hate, bigotry bad for business” (Page B1, Monday), I think business columnist Chris Tomlinson’s business column struck a nerve with our “leaders” in the Republican Party. I think that Steven Hotze’s rant in a “prayer” and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick remarks remind me of the Pharisees in Jesus’ time. Their “holier than thou” attitude is what gives us Christian Republicans a bad reputation.

Just because some of the representatives in the state House of Representatives don’t all agree with their ideas then they want them to “be consumed, collapse, rot and be blown away as dust” sounds just like the Pharisee’s prayers in the public square in Jesus’ time. These modern day Pharisees have already received their reward just as Jesus remarked in the New Testament. I am sorry to see that my state senator has fallen in with these Pharisees and has become Patrick’s hatchet man.

By the way, if your birth certificate is not an approved ID for voting in the state of Texas, it shouldn’t be approved as a form of ID for the potty patrol. I’m sure the potty patrols will be another unfunded mandate that the Legislature will force upon the local taxpayers.

Robert Rosier, Danbury

Predators lurk

Regarding “Legislature beyond bounds of reason on bathrooms, vouchers” (Page A3, Wednesday) columnist Lisa Falkenberg excoriates Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and legislators for passing a bill that would restrict persons of one sex from using the bathrooms of the opposite sex in public schools, stating “I gather Patrick is concerned that a male sexual predator would put on a dress to enter a women’s bathroom — even though doing so is already illegal if that predator attacks or even bothers somebody in that bathroom.”

This is the same false logic that she and other opponents to the legislation have used time and again to define this issue. First off, there is no dress code for sexual predators or anybody else entering a public restroom. As to the second part of her argument, it’s small comfort to the chickens that it’s illegal for a fox to be in the hen-house with ill intent.

That is why sexual predators, like the fox, must be denied access.

Pete Smith, Cypress