Mailbag - July 15, 2000
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I am not, shall we say, defending the activities that go on at the
Panther Palace (“Neighbors applaud Panther Palace crackdown,” July 12).
However, I get real tired of hearing that whatever the issue with
anything is ... it always comes down to “it’s not good for children.”
If the children in that neighborhood know what is going on in the
Panther Palace, it’s because they have heard adults talking about it.
Seven-year-old children do not know what orgies are and, unless the
participants of the orgies are participating on the front lawn, no child
would know what was going on in the house -- unless they’ve heard the
adults around them speaking of it.
If the children in that neighborhood know what it means when the
Christmas lights are on, it’s because the adults haven’t been wise enough
to make sure there are no children around when they talk about it.
As for the Panther Palace being the reason that they park on their
lawns, it’s just a good excuse for the residents. Every single one of the
homes in the neighborhood have garages and driveways that they can use
for parking.
I get very tired of government trying to regulate morality in this
country. If the participants of the activities in the Panther Palace want
to engage in orgies, so what? It’s their own business and their own
consciences. It’s not my cup of tea, but to each his own.
RAMONA WILSON
Costa Mesa
Rodman should be responsible
Someone comes onto my lawn, trespassing, not invited, and falls and
hurts himself -- I am responsible. However, if Dennis Rodman, in his
home, invites people to a party and they get drunk, park their cars in
front of neighbors’ garages, he is not liable (“Prosecutors let Rodman
off the hook,” July 6). Will some legal mind please explain this to me?
Thank goodness I don’t live in Newport Beach.
LYNN MERLES
Costa Mesa
Rosalind Williams’ memorial service was special
It was one of those special times when we came together: memorial
services for Roz Williams, former director of the Newport Beach
Conference and Visitors Bureau. Seven hundred family, friends and other
admirers celebrated her productive, talented and brave life. The church,
city leaders and so many harbor area citizens honored together, our local
treasure.
JERRY RICHARDS
Newport Beach
Save the open space for our children’s children
Our city should be doing everything it can to protect open spaces. I
will forever regret voting against protecting the Castaways.
At the time I was a single parent, struggling financially. Now when I
look north over the Back Bay, all I can think of is the ‘60s or ‘70s song
“Ticky Tacky Houses All in a Row.”
How I wish I could pay that extra tax to preserve the open space for
my children’s children. Never again will our kids run their cross country
meets there. Nor will we set out lawn chairs to watch the Back Bay Fourth
of July fireworks.
As a city we were very shortsighted to allow the Castaways to be
developed. We should learn from our mistake and preserve any and all
precious open space we have left.
MARILYN JOHNSON
Newport Beach
Funds for Farm Sports Complex could have repaired roads
Now here goes the city of Costa Mesa spending the taxpayers’ money on
the Farm Sports Complex!
We have roads in Costa Mesa that are in urgent need of repairing and
yet the City Council says the Farm Sports Complex would help the
youngsters get strong bodies so they could grow up healthy. I say, just
stop drinking sodas and eating fast food and that will keep the
youngsters strong and healthy.
SIDNEY TRIGHER
Costa Mesa
Religion is not a science
St. Augustine, writing more than 1,500 years ago, has a cautionary
word for Wendy Leece and others who would attempt to deny what human
observations have overwhelmingly confirmed.
In his work “The Literal Meaning of Genesis,” he said “Even a
non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens and the other
elements of this word ... about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones and
so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and
experience. Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to
hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture,
talking nonsense on these topics, and we should take all means to prevent
such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in
a Christian and laugh it to scorn.”
Long before Darwin, Augustine realized that the Bible is not a
scientific description of the world, and that those who regard it as such
“bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are
caught in one of their mischievous false opinions.”
PAUL EKLOF
Costa Mesa
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