While Sen. Rick Santorum's comments may have seemed a little harsh to the community, he is a man who is not afraid to speak his voice, and I applaud him in doing so. The comments are only made controversial because our society today has inherited this post-modernism thought process where everything should be subjective.

There are certain areas of life where personal preference is subjective; you have free will. However, objectivism does exist in life, one including morality. I have gay friends and look at them as regular people just like me who happen to be attracted to the same sex. I talk, interact, laugh and listen to them; I do not fear, shun or condemn them. Does it make me a homophobe that I simply disagree with what they do sexually? I certainly think not.

This is exactly what Santorum was expressing in saying that he has no problem with homosexuals, just homosexual acts. The author of "Santorum a homophobe if he's against gay acts" (April 25 letter) expresses how homosexuality is sexual acts, when in reality, there is a lot more to homosexual people than just sex, the same way that sex is only a small part of a heterosexual life.

Blaming Santorum for what he believes is discriminating him for taking a stance. Personally, I feel homosexual acts are immoral, however, I neither have a phobia, nor do I condemn people for doing so, it is not my place to judge, only the Lord's. That makes neither I, nor Santorum a homophobe.