The following is an email from Jim Nimmo. It is in response to Deb Price's Apr 29 Detroit News editorial, Ashcroft enforces important hate law.
(Posted 5-3-02)

Ms. Price,

I do not share your optimism concerning the Reverend-General Ashcroft's proposed enforcement of hate-crime laws in the case of the murders of Winans and Williams in Shenandoah National Park.

The Reverend-General is again using a convenient minority as a hostage shield in order to deflect the severe criticism directed at him as he shreds the Constitution and Bill of Rights and allows the remnants to be used as wipes for the hands of the FBI as uncharged detainees are interrogated incommunicado in secret locations without benefit of legal counsel. Does it sound like sincere reverence for the Constitution when you consider that this leading member of the Assemblies of God cult, at his Senate confirmation, pledged to uphold all laws of the USA, even those with which he disagreed, yet during his elected-office period in Missouri, he repeatedly used his position to decry homosexuality as a sin to the sky-god and voted against any pro-gay bill? When interviewing men as potential employees he would ask them if they had sexual relations in the "normal way." Does this sound like a man who is sincerely interested in equality for all USA citizens, either gay/lesbian or people of Middle Eastern background?

Why is his Jekyl-Hyde switch now being lauded by you as a plus for gay equality under the law? Reverend-General Ashcroft puts his personal interpretation of religious law before any civil law.

I suggest you read the New Yorker Profile of Ashcroft in the April 15th issue before you begin kissing this supreme homophobes's feet.

James Nimmo
Oklahoma City, OK