No opting out of mandatory insurance plan
Now is the time to uphold the 13th Amendment by defeating unconstitutional universal health care. Its supporters want to impose an individual mandate on all working Americans. By doing this, they are sanctioning involuntary servitude – slavery – of the American people. In any program designed to help others, there is always an option to withdraw or not participate. A person who doesn’t want to buy auto insurance can opt not to drive a car. A person who doesn’t want house insurance can rent instead of buying a house. But in the case of health care, a tax is placed on the person’s right to life itself. We should also remember that even the slavemasters of old were interested in the health of their slaves.
Robert Broadus
Clinton, MD
Undersea volcanoes contribute to global warming
The undersea earthquake last week poured tons of hot lava into the southwestern Pacific while generating the tsunami that caused destruction of property and loss of lives. The warmer fringe water (the Philippine Drift) flows up the east coast of Asia as it continues up to the Bering Sea and down the west coast of North America, causing edge melting of the Arctic ice cap. It does not raise the air temperature; we seem to be in a period of global cooling of the atmosphere. The El Nio’s below the equator seem to be the cause of a five-degree rise that causes fringe melting in the Antarctic. Even the proponents of “global warming” have switched the terminology to “global climate change,” so what’s the hullabaloo about polluting the atmosphere with CO2, which is a good gas? Are we going to penalize industry over a disproved hoax? If politicians want to halt climate change, they’ll have to find a way to cap undersea volcanoes first.
Joseph P. Carrigan
Fairfax
There’s no such thing as ‘ex-gay’
Re: “Judge: Ex-gays protected by D.C. law,” Aug. 26
I read Michael Neibauer’s article with a smile on my face. I agree with the D.C. Superior Court’s decision that ex-gays are protected by the D.C. Human Rights law. Since there is no such thing as an ex-gay, they would still be gay and therefore protected. Or possibly some would like to be considered homeless since they claim no home in any sexual orientation category. They have rejected being called gay, but don’t call themselves straight either. (No offense to the truly homeless, who may not want to identify with them.)
Peter D. Rosenstein
Washington
