Letter to the Editor, SF Chronicle, 5/31/07

To the Editor,

Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute, claims that naming rights for same-sex partners is "...just another incremental move to equate homosexual marriage with traditional marriage." And her point is?

In any case, the real problem in this article is that once again a Chronicle reporter, as in the case with quoting the discredited views of Paul Cameron in a recent article about adoption by LGBT people, has gone to the far right to obtain what I am sure they consider an "opposing view" for the sake of so-called "balance."

Capitol Research Institute, in their mission statement, claims to be the "...watchdog for family values in Sacramento," i.e. nothing more than an organization that works to deny gay and lesbian people, and their children and families, the same rights afforded to heterosexual people. As I am sure you wouldn't seek out an opinion from a racist organization on the issue of equal rights for people of color, that you continue to seek out opinions from anti-gay organizations on the issue of gay rights continues to astound, and disappoint, me.

Kenny Altman
San Francisco, CA