Los Gatos Weekly-Times

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Double D's gives downtown a real gateway

This letter is in response to the letter "Pub name draws double takes" in the June 19 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times. I just cannot believe what goes through the minds of some people. Up until these articles were printed, it never occurred to me Double D's Sports Grille referred to or sounded like a brassiere size. I cannot see how this name can be offensive. The name sounds like it has something to do with sports, like Double Play, Double Bogey, etc. Then finding out the two owners' names are Dean and Darin Devincenzi. I can understand where they got the name Double D's Sports Grille. I think the name is a winner.

Then your Gateway to Los Gatos. The building up until now has been a eyesore, looking like it could come down at any moment. What these two brothers have done is created a real gateway to Los Gatos, at least one half of the gateway. Time to clean up the other side of the gateway.

Salvatore Cala
Los Gatos

Letter hit the nail on the head

Are we bored in this town or what?

As a bartender at C.B. Hannegan's, I was most amused by Steve Geraghty's letter in the June 19 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times which seemed to hit the nail on this whole silly issue when he suggests that if Double D's refers to parts of the female anatomy, then C.B. Hannegan's must have been named for a lopsided upper female torso.

Thank goodness Pete and Peter's in Tahoe City didn't decide to open up another restaurant here!

Tom Ovens
Los Gatos

Neighborhoods should have family noises

We have long been aware of neighborhood developments that slowly encroached upon airport space and other business areas, then expected special treatment. Are we seeing the beginning of a reverse process? Business people choosing to work from their homes and then expecting the neighborhood to adjust to them?

Neighborhoods have inherently been places of activity, life and noise, be it from children's voices, lawn mowers, leaf blowers or whatever. Hopefully, that is how neighborhoods will remain. There are already too many cold, sepulchral streets with no signs of life.

Maybe it is time to issue a clarion call--Enter at your own risk!--to would be business stay-at-homes.

Rita Lynatt
Los Gatos

Answering to a higher law

In response to Frank Stagnaro's letter about homosexual marriages in the July 3 issue of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times: No wonder some people see the legalization of homosexual marriages as "no big deal." When you think marriage was "created by early civilizations to assign responsibility for the rearing of children resulting from the unrestrained and indiscriminate mating practices of the populace," it reveals a low view of marriage. Unbelievable ignorance!

Marriage was neither created by early civilization nor concocted by tribal leaders who conferred with witch doctors! No wonder marriage is a disposable union and parents are abandoning their children. Marriage is not holy because it had the approbation of the deities of ancient times; marriage is holy because it was God's idea in the first place.

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).

The problem with gay marriages is that they do not fit God's design. Gay marriages cannot procreate; they cannot perpetuate the human race. That's not to say gay people cannot love each other, but there is a higher law than love.

It was the law of love that has generated the social experiment we have been conducting since the 1960s, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that is has failed miserably. The notion of "free love" has led to fatherless children, spousal abuse and child abuse, to name only a few of the maladies of our times.

Perhaps it's time to look for a higher law. God's law will lift our society up and give us hope for the future.

Richard Kennedy
Pastor, Los Gatos Christian Church