James Everett’s column (“Equal rights for same-sex marriages,” The Examiner, June 12”) requires a response. I was in Independence visiting my aunt for a reunion. I am from Highland, Ind., but was born and raised in Independence until I was 15 years old.
Mr. Everett, your article is very well written and very persuasive, but, in fearfulness of breaking your bubble:
• There is no such thing as a same-sex marriage, no matter what ultimately some idiot Supreme Court judge rules. Marriage is between a man and a woman, “that the earth may answer the ends of its creation” (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 49).
Sex between two men or two women will not work to accomplish its designed ends. It does not take great intelligence to understand this. Neither does the Bible describe or condone marriage between other than a man and woman, and frankly condemns it. I do not have to tell you where, but two references usually overlooked are Jude 7-8 and I Timothy 1: 9-10.
Only a man and woman can have children and therefore the responsibility for children. Two women or two men adopting children nevertheless can not offer them a mother and father, both of which are needed for children to understand life in its completeness. Hey, it’s the way God created us. Go argue with him.
• Why should two men or two women receive the same-partner benefits that have always been based on parents’ need for support to care for these children. Both men can go out and work and so can both women go out and work. Where is the dependency on one or the other.
• Even though these tendencies may have been with one from birth or youth, it can not be attributed to the creator, who is one and not double minded.
• God zapped the people of Sodom when they would have raped the angels of our God. How much of a warning do we need to be fearful of God rather than of man? Yes the closets are emptying as Satan works his hardest in these last days to do his wiles before he is soon to be chained and thrust into the bottomless pit.
Be careful what you ask for. You might get it.
The true people of our God and his Christ will not and can never accept homosexuality as an alternate lifestyle. Let’s not sweep it under the carpet. It is what it is!
Robert D. Long lives in Highland, Ind.
