To the editor:

While scanning the headlines in Tuesday’s Journal-World, I was disgusted to read the headline explaining same-sex marriage would trump funding for public schools on the Legislature’s agenda this session. It is a sad situation when our elected representatives choose to advance bigotry over investment in our most fragile, yet valuable, resource.

Proper funding of public schools is a tricky business. Schools do not operate to make money; that just is not how they work. But successful, well supported schools can promote the well-being of this state and nation, by providing future workers, leaders and citizens that can perpetuate our culture, economy, and values.

That is what this is about, isn’t it? Cloaking prejudice in the giant’s robes of “moral values” does not alter what it is: prejudice. I ask the Legislature, “Are you keeping their eyes open to the real needs of this state?” I certainly hope that these children, when we are elderly and in their care, do not choose personal bias over our well-being.

Aaron Polson,

Lawrence