Don't disparage people of faith during discussion of creationism

The Times has seen fit to allot Phil Wieland space for a 450-word diatribe against theology, religious institutions, people of faith, and somehow even managed to include the Tea Party. It's one thing to oppose the proposed law allowing Indiana schools to teach creationism, but it's quite another to disparage "believers" as "boneheads," and compare them to "chigger bites."

Is this what The Times stands for? And are people of faith really ignorant to the point of believing the "flat Earth" theory? Are people of faith so intolerant that they represent the "failings of the '50s"? Was it not the case that people of faith had a major influence in overcoming those failings?

Would Wieland include such notable figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Bishop Sheen, Pope John XXIII, Desmond Tutu, Gandhi and Mother Teresa as boneheads because they believed in something greater than themselves?

- Larry Petersen, Highland