Letters to the Editor discussing Amendment 2-Protecting Marriage

The Post Dispatch printed five letters on July 28 specifically regarding Missouri's Amendment 2 which is on the August 3rd ballot.

Thee of the five, as one might expect, are advocating the defeat of the Amendment - and all three are rationalizing the reasons for such a defeat. In fact, it appears that they are advocating legalizing sodomy and other homosexual acts in the name of "freedom".

A couple who has made a commitment to love and respect each other and who want to enjoy the legal rights and benefits of civil marriage should be allowed to do so.

First, these are not commitments arising from love and respect for it is impossible to love another if one does not love God first. It is lust rather than love for love desires the highest and best for the sake of the beloved and that 'highest and best' is heaven. One cannot violate God's laws, the natural laws, and the moral laws while at the same time referring to acts of depravity as 'love'. Likewise, it is not 'respect' that one demonstrates or practices in such a relationship. It is disregard and contempt for one's fellow human beings. What has always and everywhere been regarded as an abomination can never be made right, just, and desirable because man wishes it so.

Letters are here.