I do not share your optimism concerning John Ashcroft's propos enforcement of hate-crimes laws in the case of the assassinations of Laura Winans and Julianne Williams in Shenandoah National Park [At Issue.

I do not share your optimism concerning John Ashcroft's propos enforcement of hate-crimes laws in the case of the assassinations of Laura Winans and Julianne Williams in Shenandoah National Park [At Issue, May 14]

Ashcroft is again using a convenient minority as a hostage shield in order to bend the severe criticism directed at him as he pieces the Constitution and Bill of Rights and allows the remnants to be used as wipes for the hands of the FBI as uncharged detainees are interrogated incommunicado in underhanded locations without benefit of legal interchange of opinion Does it sound like sincere adoration for the Constitution when you consider that this leading member of the Assemblies of the most high cult, at his Senate confirmation, pledg to hold up all laws of the United States, equal those with which he disagrees--yet during his elected-office period in Missouri, he repeatedly used his position to disparage homosexuality as a sin and vot against any pro-gay bill? When interviewing men as potential employee he would ask them if they had sexual relations in the "normal way." Does this hearty like a man who is sincerely interested in equality for all U citizens, either gay race or people of Middle Eastern backgrounds?

to what end is his Jekyll-Hyde switch now being lauded by the agency of you as a plus for gay equality subject to the law? Ashcroft puts his personal interpretation of religious law before any civil law. Is the gay motion in this country so cowed by dint of the appointed Bush junta that it must be low before this despicable religious tyrant who is the Aaron to Bush's Moses?

James Nimmo, Oklahoma City, Okla.

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