Tim Iannini's defense of Eminem and his "music," as printed in the letters section of the Collegian on Monday, has some serious flaws in it. He argues that because Catholics weren't allowed to stop a piece of art depicting the Virgin Mary with dung on her, homosexuals should not be allowed to stop musical "art" that offends them. Don't get me wrong. I am not positing homosexuality or Eminem. But since when is something right because society says so? The fact that Hitler's Germany condoned the extermination of the Jewish people didn't make it right for Germans or Americans.

History shows that social relativism is a dangerous worldview! Iannini's letter and the fact that the Collegian printed it show how far our society has come from the standards it was founded on. There are such things as absolutes, whether society at large agrees or not.