Who is really intolerant?
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Editor,
Wow. The expressions and accusations contained in Kay Emmert’s and Jamie Olson’s letters about same-sex marriage seem to contain the very thing they complain about: intolerance. They resort to name calling with terms like “total disgust,” “spiteful,” and “hateful.” Here are a few soul-searching questions: was their intolerance toward Mr. Town so severe that it provoked hatred toward his biblical beliefs?
They wrote of “normal” people – this term to me, and many others, means regular, standard, and/or natural. It is factual, that gay people are a strict minority in numbers and behavior. Would that not make their lifestyle abnormal?
In claiming that Mr. Town knows “nothing about” homosexuality, they leave one to wonder, how do they know that? Do they know him personally?
The simple belief that 4-year-old Mary Ann can express — that the definition of love is a puppy licking her face — may be charming, but when we grow up we arrive at very definite understandings about love and other facets of life on earth. Like Mr. Town and the majority of Christians, I believe in biblical definitions about love and bringing up children in the way they should go. In regards to opposing their definition of love, they say, “get over it.”
While they express that, “everyone will be accepted sooner or later” and those opposed should “stop fighting for hatred against our neighbor” suggests that Christians are haters and should stop following their faith and Lord. Who is talking hatred here? I commend Mr. Town for taking a stand.
In the Bible in the book of John it is written: “These things that I command you, that you love one another” and “If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.”
To those with great intolerance I say God bless you.
James Sisler
Big Arm
