Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was right, “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

The OpEd piece by Bryan Dench Oct. 30 portrays a woman morally opposed to renting to two gay men with her concern being the current law forcing her to. Remember the haunting words of George Wallace in 1963, “This civil rights bill will wind up putting a homeowner in jail because he doesn’t sell his home to someone that some bureaucrat thinks he ought to sell it to.”

The prejudices of the ’60s have just changed targets.

Last Sunday, my car was decorated with fliers denouncing this law as anti-Catholic. It quoted individuals drawing parallels from this law to a breakdown of marriage; a distorted interpretation of this law’s intent. When the Rev. Mike Seavey publicly explained that discrimination is the real anti-Catholic stand, he was brutally criticized. Had this same crowd of Catholics been around at the time of Christ, Mary Magdalene would have been stoned.

We must remember that the people struggling for basic human rights are not strangers. They are our politicians, teachers, brothers, sisters and, yes, even parents.

Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.”

Greg Simpson, Minot