Responses to Rosa Brooks' column on Georgia kick off Wednesday's Letters to the editor. Also featured:  comments on an op-ed questioning who should pay for reconstruction in Iraq, on gay students and the families and school boards who love them (or not), on native plants and on allegedly missing badges in Orange County.

And Michael E. White, of Burbank, wonders how anyone can take praying for lower gas prices seriously:

It is in moments like these that you begin to wonder where sanity ends and delirium begins.  To believe God would tend his concerns toward the price of oil is preposterous...Time to pray for an improved catalytic converter, I suppose.

*Photo: Carlos Chavez/Los Angeles Times