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Incontrovertible Truths (Letter to Editor)

26 Tuesday May 2015

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With regard to that which Ireland recently did, that is, passed a law that allows homosexual marriage (A-6, 5.24.2015) there are some things that can be said about that. First, the island is predominantly Catholic, and since the influence of the Catholic Church is of some note, it must be the case that their influence in this realm failed. Second, homosexual marriage is the different side of the same coin that also includes the intimate union of heterosexual relationships of unmarried people. Third, there is no possible way for same-sex unions to perpetuate human existence. Fourth, closely following the third point, same-sex unions are completely unnatural. Fifth, and last, same-sex unions are immoral. The last four of the five points proffered are incontrovertible in truth; they can be easily sustained in debate.

The Lord’s influence, though rejected by society (including Ireland’s), will not be rejected when He calls to account the life people have chosen to live. We will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Some choose not to be prepared.

Submitted 5.26.2015 to the Decatur Herald & Review

Much at stake (Letter to editor)

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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Letter to editor

What is at stake with regard to the issue of same-sex marriage before the United States Supreme Court? There is more at stake than is realized by some. In an Associated Press article by Mark Sherman, there is a summary of the constituent points concerning the issue before the Court. Those who support gay-marriage argue that states do not have “any valid reason” to prohibit marriage to same-sex couple because it is their “pursuit of happiness.” Moreover, the denial makes them (homosexuals) “second-class citizens of same-sex couples and their families.”

There are two replies to this. First, with regard to there being no valid reason to prohibit same-sex marriage, there is very much a valid reason. It is called morality! If there is an objective/transcendent standard of right and wrong (and I have and will continue to argue for such), then behavior contrary to that standard is immoral. On the other hand, in a society such as ours that currently exists, we live on the basis of no morality at all, or a morality that is relative to the subject. In effect, what is right and what is wrong is undetermined until the community codifies a standard that is strictly arbitrary to wants, wishes, and dislikes. This promotes moral chaos.

With such a philosophy in place, if one determines his own right or a wrong, the arbitrary approach to morality produces no morality at all. It is nothing more than a squeaky wheel getting grease!

Thus, this brings me to the second point of reply. The moniker “second-class” citizen is as substantive as submarine with a “screen-door” hatch! It is a sinking ship. This is nothing more than a made-up reply to gather sympathy from people.

Submitted to Decatur Herald-Review (4.27.2015)

Sanctioned Immorality

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

Posted by Ron Thomas in Uncategorized

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Letter to Editor

It is now official. What so many have noticed long before this the Democrat Party now officially stands for that which is immoral. I am not speaking about taxes, immigration, Medicare, support for Israel, gun control, or things of this sort; I am speaking about two things in particular that are in direct opposition to God: same-sex marriage and abortion. Of course, abortion has been a hallmark for the democrats for a good while (page 52 on 2012 Democrat National Platform), but same-sex marriage is now a plank in the platform (page 53).

The other day I heard a political analyst dismiss the platform plank as insignificant. It is not insignificant when it becomes a plank in the party indicating that which will be promoted and defended. It is not insignificant when the Lord stands in direct opposition to these two platform planks and man, in all his wisdom, thumbs his nose up at His creator. It is not insignificant when people, who call themselves Christians, show more loyalty to a political party that spits in God’s face than they do His standard for decency.

There are a lot of conscientious democrats who call themselves Christian who won’t consider this insignificant at all and, thus, won’t be voting for a political party to whom they otherwise might be loyal.

Printed in the Herald and Review (Decatur, Illinois)

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