Editor, Times-Union: Homosexuality? Slow down, Ms. Kurosky. I'm not suggesting you're a baby, but you can't be much beyond fractions. Even a baby has to drink from a sipee cup a long time before it can take a sip from a "Big Gulp" down at the Seven Eleven. You at least ought to have some sea legs. I had an intimate homosexual experience once but I just call it a friendship. I hate complex terminology.
I lost my safety net. Imagine what you'd feel like if one day you got off the school bus and found yourself on Mars.
So I just took off walking down the road with no particular place to go. He pulls up in a pickup truck, "Hungry?" Over a burger and fries he hires me to help him ready his yard for spring and says I can live with him and his partner till the job's done.
If you're ever on Mars that'll sound like a good deal.
What a house. Colonial. Jacuzzi, sauna, whirlpool. In a few minutes, I was clean as Gene. It's easier to get the dust off when the plumbin's right.
I don't think the Pharaoh of Egypt would have ever been treated with more respect than those homosexuals treated me with. It wasn't the food that impressed me, although it bears mentioning. It was the compassion they showed a stranger. I think what a person does is more important than what he is.
I think God wants me to treat others the way I'd like to be treated. He said that's obedience to something he calls a mandate. Prayer is God's only Web site, eliminating "confusion." That's a good deal no matter what planet you're on. You don't have to type and it's simpler than reducing fractions.
Steven R. Frantz Warsaw
Downtown Warsaw
Editor, Times-Union: Downtown Warsaw is becoming GREEN and gorgeous! At lunchtime today, I saw the new trees that are being planted on Center Street, downtown, and said a loud (with my vehicle windows rolled up) THANK YOU.
Truly, it is wonderful seeing green trees back in the center of town and the sidewalk renovation work being completed. I'm sure some of the merchants have had to bite back frustration with the construction, but, it is definitely an enhancement to every store in the downtown. It is also exciting to see all the new signs, awnings and building fronts that are being "found," like Reader's World. You can begin to feel an anticipation of bigger, better things happening in this wonderful little city.
My congratulations and thanks to Warsaw Community Development Corp. and the city of Warsaw for following through with their plans.
Carol Huffer Warsaw via e-mail
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Editor, Times-Union: I have read Jay Rigdon's letter from March 16, 2004, and I would like to address Mr. Rigdon thus: Aren't we super sensitive! But your sensitivity is only allowed to work when finding fault with anything and everything President Bush does. In your sight, he can do no right and the Democratic Party-loving liberal media can do no wrong. The same footage of World Trade Center that was used in President Bush's TV ad has been aired innumerable times by the liberal media in news broadcasts and many documentaries on aspects of the tragedy. If this footage was such a holy site and therefore wrong for President Bush to show, why has it been perfectly OK and not insensitive for the liberal media to use it these innumerable times? Our nation looked to our great president for comfort and strength and resolve following that tragedy, and he was a superb comforter and strength, which, come on Mr. Rigdon, you should be smart enough to realize that that was the sole point of airing the footage in the ad and for that purpose alone! He was not using "the victims of this tragedy" and "the trauma of innocent casualties as political tools" but simply the symbol of the tragedy - the rubble! Not a victim was mentioned. You are the one who is inserting the innocent victims into the picture!
While we are on the subject of "victims of ... tragedy" and "innocent casualties," why are you not outraged about the over 40,000,000 babies who have been murdered over the past 30 years through abortion? Are not these dear ones "victims" and "innocent casualties" of continual and consistent Democratic Party-backed defeat of Republican efforts to put an end to murdering these millions of babies? Is this not "indecent, immoral and outrageous"? You haven't voiced a word to condemn these millions of murderers? -ÊShame on you!
Chuck Orlando Warsaw Roe v. Wade Editor, Times-Union: Sarah Weddington, the lawyerette who brought about the passing of Roe v. Wade over 30 years ago, recently disgraced Indiana with her presence when she gave a lecture to the students of Manchester College promoting abortion as a crucial spoke in the wheel of "women's rights." Her claim that abortion is a necessary option because it contributes to a woman's mental and physical health is flabbergasting, since there is such a huge library of research that shows the opposite. Huge increases in the likelihood of developing psychological problems, alcohol and drug abuse, increased instances of sterility, suicide and dying of murder are just a few of the harmful aftereffects of abortion. A complete list of the harmful effects of abortion can be found here www.poorchoice.org I, as a survivor of the abortion holocaust in America, will not allow Weddington and her poor-choice collaborators to get away with telling these lies. I ask other survivors to join me and speak out on behalf of the one-third of our generation that has been thrown in the trash and on behalf of those women to whom Weddington's actions have brought so much suffering to.
Editor, Times-Union: There is only one Christ; hence there can be only one church and one Christian faith. There is nothing more scriptural than the 12 apostles, who received the Holy Ghost on Pentecost and these 12 founded the Roman Catholic Church and no other. It is to her alone, the bride of Christ, that our Lord promised to be with all days, to the end of time. It is built on the rock, which is St. Peter and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. These are the words of Christ in the gospel of St. Matthew, the apostle; one either believes this is the truth or one does not.
It is from this holy Catholic Church, in which resides the divine authority of sacred tradition, that we received the Bible in the first place. Pope Damasus commissioned the Bible at the Roman Council in the year 382 A.D. Nowhere in scripture does our Lord or the Apostles refer to giving authority to different "churches." They do however warn over and over again of blind guides and false doctrines and that many would be deceived. The gospel of St. Mark even warns the faithful of false Christs. One either believes this is the truth or one does not.
I recently read that there exist today over 26,000 protestant faiths, each one denying one or more truths taught by Christ through the Catholic (universal) Church, each claiming some authority they simply do not possess except that which comes from man. These believers frequently quote St. John and claim that belief is all that is necessary. Well, devils believe and tremble, are they saved? Of course not.
To be sure, God desires that all be saved; He did not predestine some souls for perdition. He desires each of us to seek Him, to adore Him in spirit and in truth. Either we will or we will not.
Today there still exists the same Catholic Church in which can be found the grace of Jesus Christ in its entirety. It is not a "Bible only" church; it is the fullness of faith. It possesses sacred tradition, which is handed down from our Lord via the apostles and teaches us to interpret scripture. Here one can strive for the perfection to which we are all called in the gospel of St. Matthew. One either believes Christ remains with His Church as He promised or one does not.
Mr. Lowe asks, perhaps rhetorically, who I am. I answer: I am a Christian, as are all Catholics; a wife, a mother and a grandmother who needs and relies on all the gifts our Lord bestowed upon His Church. I am not arguing with the Lord or trying to offend anyone. I was simply trying to point out that the movie, "The Passion of the Christ," is profoundly Catholic and that Mel Gibson, who is also a traditional Catholic, offers a glimpse of our holy faith to those who are of good will.
