Eric Swankoski should be commended for his excellent Dec. 4 letter. He told the truth vs. the usual litany of lies that this school is exposed to via its media.

To imply that the scandals in the Catholic Church are not related to homosexuality is ludicrous. In the vast majority of cases, the sexual abuse involved individuals of the same sex, as recognized by those who have not lost their sanity.

The entire concept of hate crimes makes a mockery of "equal justice under the law." What crime doesn't involve hate?

Our universities, if they really care about diversity, should put on a play called The Chicago Project to commemorate the death of Catholic Mary Stachowicz who cared enough about an individual to tell him the truth about a lifestyle that has been proven to be physically and psychologically ruinous, and changeable per current research from the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.

Moreover, the American Psychiatric Association has shown that reparative therapy works. A statement from a former president of the American Psychological Association condemned attempts to prohibit those seeking reparative therapy from doing so, which shows that we aren't talking about an "orientation" in an innate final sense.

Predictably, the mainstream media and homosexual advocacy organizations have reacted to Mary Stachowicz's murder the same way they did to 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising's torture-murder at the hands of two homosexual men in 1999: by avoiding it.

The homosexual movement has come a long way from "just leave us alone." It's one thing to ignore good advice in regard to private acts; it's something else to demand that society approve of your behavior under force of law, which it isn't obliged to do for reasons of societal common good.