Letter of the Day: On topic

Editor, Daily News:

Guess which topic U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) wants to put at the top of the senate's agenda? You might suppose that he would want to take up topics like how we can change our failed policies in Iraq and fashion an honorable pathway for withdrawal.

Or, how the U.S. Senate could legislate to help reduce our addiction to foreign oil, for example, by instituting tougher vehicular gas mileage requirements and focusing on energy-saving measures.

Or, he could think about passing the first minimum wage increase in a decade.

Or, perhaps move toward ensuring health care for every American.

But what does Frist want to do first? He wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to deprive gays and lesbians of equal rights under the law.

Gosh, aren't we all just desperate to have that taken care of before we deal with all this other stuff?

Think of the threat that the possibility of same-sex marriage poses to our nation! Frist is a little desperate all right; over the awful record of this administration and the failures of the Republican-led Congress to address the nation's real problems.

So, with the elections looming, a little distraction is called for. Some good old rabble-rousing demagoguery that appeals to biases and unfounded fears. Let's hope that Americans don't fall for this old trick.

Theodore L. Brown, Bonita Springs