How does wanting peace and quiet make me a bigot?

As a strong supporter of Dreher High School and its students, I oppose Dreher’s new sports complex for one reason alone: A 400-seat stadium with lights and broadcast system will surely cause a huge disturbance to my neighborhood.

Where will 400 cars park? What will happen after the game when the visiting team loses? How many fanatic fans will be carrying guns?

My daughter graduated from Dreher, so I wholeheartedly supported it staying in the neighborhood, but I cannot support the new proposal, and I resent the suggestion by former Dreher booster club president Michal Burkett’s that I must be a bigot to oppose it (“With sports field question lingering, is Columbia discriminating against Dreher?,” Sept. 21).

This story was originally published October 1, 2017 at 6:31 PM with the headline "How does wanting peace and quiet make me a bigot?."