As I read about the Dred Scott decision--which said that blacks were "inferior had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"--I sadly thought of the struggle that LGBT Americans are going through today.

I cringe when I read some of the letters sent by professed Christians who say hateful things and justify their flat-out prejudice by quoting the Bible.

Someday their words will be as shocking as the words in the Dred Scott decision. Tolerant, intelligent, moral Americans will prevail in the long run, and people will look back with regret on the awful things that are done and said to gay people today.

Like it or not, not all people are created as heterosexuals. Gender diversity is real, and it is not a choice.

Just as Mr. Scott and his family were eventually emancipated and slavery was abolished, thus will people of all gender persuasions be afforded equal rights in the future.

Helene Kelly

King George