Women Stir Desire -- And Should
Editor, Times-Dispatch: You go, girl! Be all God intended you to be. This letter is from a "girl-watcher." It matters not whether girls are black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or any racial mixture or color in between. I watch and love them all.

I'm reacting to the news story, "Mideast Muslims Condemn Service." It details a controversy over a mixed-gender worship service in New York.
[led by a female professor from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond]
A comment by an Islamic professor disturbed me: "A woman's body stirs desire in men." Of course it does! Wasn't that what God designed woman's body to do? With all due respect to Islam, I'm puzzled by some of its logic. I cannot understand why the exotic beauty of its women must be hidden behind veils and under long black robes, as if they were unsightly and loathsome creatures. Its men don't hide their faces behind masks and their bodies under black robes so as not to "stir desire" in women.

God created beautiful flowers to delight men's eyes. God created beautiful women not only to delight men's eyes but also to delight men with their intelligence, their companionship, and their unique ability to bear men's children. God expected men to develop self-discipline and control over their passions so they could love and respect women as He intended.

I doubt harsh laws governing women were decreed by any god. They probably were written by disgruntled, bearded old geezers who no longer could "cut the mustard" and hated all men who could.
[Emphasis added]
Thomas Cannon, Richmond.