To the Sentinel:
I read your article regarding the demonstration in front of Ankrom/Moison architects. I am not an employee of Ankrom/Moison, only a vendor who serves their office.
My only reason for stopping that day was not to challenge their position on abortion, but rather to challenge the inane decision to picket in front of the architects’ office to draw attention to their cause. While I support their right to protest what they feel is an unjust legal decision; Roe vs. Wade, I wonder if any of them realizes how they appear to passersby?
By protesting the people who draw up plans for an office building, because it might one day be leased out to an organization that supports and defends abortion, is ludicrous. Why not protest the electrical contractor who’s been asked to wire the building? By stretching their “cause” to this extreme and quite frankly, stupid extent, they just show themselves to be what they evidently are: fanatics. Nobody will ever listen to the opinions of a person who wants to be taken seriously when their first impression is that of a lunatic. Again, I strongly support their right to confront what they believe is an illegal/immoral act, but by protesting an office building full of lighting engineers, draftsmen and architects, many of whom probably believe just as they do, they only serve to isolate themselves from the cause they’re trying to bring attention to.

Bruce Lindner
Milwaukie