One idea that exemplifies the best in American ideology is how we strive to judge people by their actions and not by superficial characteristics that are a happenstance of birth. I was disappointed to read an example contrary to this in the final line of Adele Ferguson’s latest article when she used a derisive term to describe children born to unmarried parents. The children she referred to did nothing to warrant such a title and its saddening to read such a blatant example of bigotry in a publication I usually find uplifting.

Mike Collins