Center for Christian Virtue protecting its own misguided, views instead of Ohio kids

Kids don't need your kind of protection

To the Center for Christian Virtue: who exactly are you protecting?

Certainly not transgender children. They are already being fiercely protected by their parents. No, you are protecting your own misguided and outdated views of what defines us as humans.

To you and the Ohio Legislature, please, please find other issues that are important to Ohioans, your voters.

Harming kids. Ohio House didn't overturn DeWine's HB 68 veto to protect kids. They did it out of hate

There must be something more critical than micromanaging our doctors’ decisions. Readers: what would you like our legislature to focus on, instead of female reproduction and transgender youth?

Debbie Fox, Bexley

Mike DeWine must show Trump has no clothes

Thanks to Gov. Mike DeWine for overriding House Bill 68 (the bill that would restrict medical care for transgender minors and block transgender girls from female sports).

I appreciate his efforts in investigating the proposed law and suggesting why it should be vetoed. Most importantly he pointed out that these difficult medical decisions should be left to the patient and parents with the guidance of science based medical care.

This sounds like core Republican values.

While the governor is supporting core Republican values by standing up to the Ohio legislature, why doesn’t he use this opportunity to stand up to former president Trump.

It’s time for leaders like DeWine to say that the emperor has no clothes.

Trump is a bully, egotistical, liar who doesn’t represent core Republican values. If more leaders like DeWine would stand up to such “leaders," maybe the nation could avoid a second devastating term by Trump.

If I were the governor, I would have trouble standing up on the same stage next to someone who called me a “stiff."

Dr. William Cotton, Blacklick

Flavored tobacco ban useless

After all the money, time, city resources, lawyers' fees, the people who prefer menthol cigarettes, flavored vapes, etc., simply have to drive a short distance—sometimes just across the street—to purchase them in an adjoined township.

Great bunch of useless council busywork, folks.

You sure showed those smokers.

Nicholas Russell, Columbus

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How much suffering is enough?

I live in downtown Columbus, in a six-story apartment building in the University District.

Every day and night, I see unhoused people setting up camp in alleys, facades, and doorways.

With the weather rapidly turning for the worst, I wonder what the city of Columbus is doing to aid its most vulnerable populations. The number of homeless in this state is growing - how much human suffering are we willing to tolerate before more accessible shelters are created?

Zane Protus, Columbus

US must fix wrongs, apologize

Why cannot Joe Biden immediately withhold and freeze all aid and business transactions to Israel and to every nation which has supported either side in this conflict?

Why cannot he require an immediate ceasefire and initiate peace talks through the United Nations?

Why cannot the U.S. include the Russia/Ukraine conflict in these discussions?

I've read that China is willing to support such actions, and the economic ties between the U.S. and China would help present these two nations as a united front during such negotiations.

To prove its sincerity in seeking peaceful solutions, the U.S. must apologize and make amends for its own actions which have made smaller nations hate us.

Only the strong can forgive and seek forgiveness from others; the weak cannot.

Stanley D. Krider, Delaware

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Center for Christian Virtue is not trying to protect Ohio's trans kids