Must ... fight ... urge ... to respond.

Crap. I will only respond to one Jessa Holland ("Some students' naïve beliefs shock reader," March 23). What is wrong with this quote? "Truly shocked. I think there should be a part of the application process where, somehow, these ridiculously close-minded, hateful, discriminating people could be discarded from the acceptance pile."

Discarding applications from acceptance based on beliefs sounds awfully like, oh yeah, discrimination. Wouldn't it be really neat if everyone just suddenly decided to love everyone else, based on the fact that they are fallible, disagreeable, unique human beings? And maybe if we could understand each others' beliefs rather than reject all that is different or undesirable? Or realize that satisfying personal, self-driven desires is not the goal of life? Oh wait, someone already thought of that. It was, oh yeah, Jesus.