Letter: Football player’s sexuality is not front-page news

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Why do we need to know — as the most important news of the day by way of the bold headline on the Jan. 29 front page — that a Willamette University football team kicker is bisexual?

What importance does that have in the life of the community other than perhaps illuminating our prejudice and the apparent need to be “made feeling good” about it.

Important to our community and the rest of the world might be our president’s state of the union address. Yes, you covered that in the add-on of USA Today.

However, the local issues in response to this important speech are apparently far outweighed by the importance of our knowing about the bisexuality of a football kicker.


Ingrid Adams


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