RIGHTS: A time to speak up

I think in my 57 years on this Earth this is my second letter to the editor, but there comes a time when you just have to speak up. In response to a letter from Joseph and Carla Lininger bashing the Coeur d’Alene Press, Tony Stewart and the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations I have something to say.

The exhibit on display at the Human Rights Education Institute is a world class display on loan from the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Which you would have know had you bothered to view the exhibit before belittling it. Yes the focus of this exhibit is on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals during the holocaust. The Nazi regime had several target groups they attempted to eliminate during the holocaust — Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled, basically anyone who did not fit their idea of the perfect race.

Tony Stewart is a man of courage and honor who has worked tirelessly for 30-plus years for the dignity of others. He does not promote any one right, he promotes rights for everyone. Even you in your freedom of speech targeting him and the Task Force for all the great work they have done to make our community a better place to live.

MICHELLE FINK

Proud board member

Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations