Another Governor Blocking the Door

Re “Schwarzenegger Seeks Halt to Gay Marriages,” Feb. 21: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s determination to stop gay people from entering into legal marriage puts him on a par with Alabama’s Gov. George Wallace standing on the university steps to keep blacks from enjoying the rights and privileges enjoyed by whites. A majority of the state’s voters might have agreed with Wallace, but now he looks like the pathetic relic of a bad era.

Schwarzenegger probably has a majority of this state’s voters behind him on this issue as well, but none of them are any more moral or right than the Southern segregationists were in their time.

Mark Sprecher

Los Angeles

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Our governator, a married man, can grope women who are not interested in his sexual advances, and that’s OK. However, under “the rule of law” regarding same-sex marriages, he now has the audacity to proclaim that a loving bond between two consenting individuals is not OK.

Am I missing something, or is there one standard for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and another for gay people?

Dan Freedland

Rolling Hills Estates

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It seems very odd that we have an attorney general who has chosen not to enforce the law. Worse than that, his spokesperson took shots at Schwarzenegger for asking that the laws be enforced. The fact the people of California are allowing Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer to do this is a dangerous precedent. Are we indeed any different than a lawless society if the laws are not enforced?

Mark Perry

Los Angeles

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Schwarzenegger wants to stop gay marriages. At the same time he thinks foreign-born citizens should be permitted to run for president of the United States (Feb. 23). How does it feel to be an outsider, Arnold?

Eric Bolton

Burbank