It appears sex. gender, religion, politics and the law are the target of an organized letter campaign being waged in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and Lewiston Tribune.
In any event, letters are flying in and being published as they should be.
Unfortunately, they reveal a great deal of misunderstanding, ignorance and a religion-over-science mentality.
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