EDITOR,

I have two things

I’d like to respond to. The first is a letter to the editor written a

few days ago involving polar bears (“Polar bear fiction,” Your Voice,

Wednesday). The writer said that the population of polar bears is

increasing, that Canadians can get licenses to hunt them, and that

there is no ice in Canada.

Polar

bears are on the endangered species list because humans, through the

expulsion of greenhouse gases, are melting the polar ice caps in the

arctic, thus melting all the ice.

That

being said, Canadians can’t get hunting licenses for polar bears. Also,

look at a map. You’re crazy to think there is no ice in Canada.

My

second issue is with California’s Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage.

I have a problem with all of these people using religion as a

“legitimate” excuse for discriminating against the gay community. It

doesn’t matter what the Bible says about gays or marriage, because the

last time I checked, we swore on the Bible to uphold the Constitution,

not the other way around.

— Derek O’Bar, Tracy