Ask what it means to build such walls

I read with interest the Saturday cover story of the "Watchmen on the Wall" coming to the Lynnwood Convention Center this week. It's good to see the public eye on groups like these.

As a straight person who enjoys good old American pluralism, I think people who gather with prayer on their lips and hate in their hearts have their heads stuck in sand (the Bible) and their minds stuck in the clouds (heaven). As one who wasted many years in Bible battles and "defending the faith," I can understand the mentality. I just can't support this dangerous business of wall-building, the watchtowers, the watch-"men" or the walls themselves.

As Robert Frost mused, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall." The frightfully, fearfully religious might do well to heed the poet's reflection, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know, what I was walling in or walling out." As a former person of faith I must say, I'm glad I hopped off the wall before it became my prison, or my tomb.

Chris Highland
Langley