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...have evolved. Like LeVake, they began co-opting the logic of Darwinists and speaking in a softer voice. In fact, LeVake's case has barely stirred blue-collar Faribault (pop. 19,177). This is Minnesota, after all, and as just about anyone here will tell you, Minnesotans are nice. Laura Cesafsky, a recent Faribault High graduate who calls herself a proud liberal, wrote an editorial in the school paper decrying creationism but avoided using LeVake's name. She agrees that "he's a great guy." That helps explain why, even if he ultimately loses, LeVake isn't going anywhere...
Many kids try on different names, but, according to Seattle psychologist Laura Kastner, it's usually a pass- ing fancy. It's tougher, she says, to quash an alternate identity when it's been around a while. In other words, we should have nipped this in the bud. (It could have been worse: when Kastner's goddaughter Jane was eight, she changed her name to Roxie--and she's still Roxie...
...Laura plays fast and loose with pseudoclinical rhetoric and nonempirical statistics (mostly from political rather than credible medical sources) to portray lesbians and gays as, well, "biological errors." The fact that she is not medically qualified to make such claims is dodged by her "deeply felt religious perspectives." She not only seems unable to choose whether to espouse science or faith but also mixes an indefensible concoction of both and passes it off as truth...
...Laura has "cried more at times than I would like to admit" in response to lesbians' and gays' speaking out against her, she has nothing on the misery she has caused us with her virulent and prejudicial denouncements. For a woman who claims to be all about the family, has she considered how many families with lesbian and gay members she has torn apart with her destructive words...
...Laura can dry her eyes anytime she wants, just by telling the truth...