I've been to Paris, and in Paris gays openly hold hands and peck each other on the cheek and no one seems to mind in that city of love ("Gay couple cited, cuffed after kiss near LDS temple," Tribune , July 11). I guess when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints promised that its Main Street Plaza would host a "little bit of Paris" it meant Paris, Idaho, or maybe Disneyland's sanitized rendition. For in Paris, France, one feels free and fully human, and I've never felt that way on the LDS Church's plaza, as much as I love its flowers.

On the LDS Church headquarters' campus, only the flowers are encouraged to bloom lavishly and diversely; the highly regulated humans can only gaze at the fecund flora with awe and envy.

Henry Denton

Charleston