Letters from our readers-November

LETTERS:Praise to Barb

As a father and husband living in Montgomery County Texas, I am glad that we have leaders such as County Judge Barb Sadler and all of our County Commissioners who are willing to stand for the family values of our community. My hope is that our leaders will not be bullied by the politically correct (pretending to be the mainstream) group, who are trying to force their self interest agenda on the families of the community in Montgomery County. Our libraries belong to our community. We vote here, we spend our money here and most important we raise our children here.

Ken Rushing Jr.
Montgomery County

LETTERS:Why would someone choose homosexuality?

I have never understood why any person would choose to be homosexual.
(The People of this Country need to wake up, letter to the editor by Mark Cadwallader, ISSUE 43) it seems the enticements are " compulsive/ addictive behavior, Biblical sin, medically dangerous habits , a damaging and dangerous lifestyle and life-span reduced by 20 ro 30 years."

Jeanne Edmonds
The Woodlands, Tx

LETTERS:Montgomery County will reunite

A day or two ago, a few folks, including myself, were discussing the on-going debate about whether to "ban or not to ban certain books in our county libraries." My only worthy comment was: "It hurts so much to see my beloved Montgomery County so divided." Then came a bolt from the blue! Young Andrew Scott Dubois said, "J.C. Don't worry about it. The citizens of Montgomery County, on both sides of the question, are just practicing their rights given to us by the First Amendment.
Thank you Andy Dubois. You are absolutely right! When one really thinks about it, the "Keep the Books" folks feel they are "Protecting" our Freedom of Speech by leaving the books in the library; The "Ban the Books" folks are "Practicing" their Freedom of Speech by asking the books be removed from the library. Is that great or is that great? Only in America!
In spite of some of the "big town" media guys trying to portray Montgomery County as a divided, backward county, I will bet $100 to a donut hole, that after the dust settles, Montgomery County will reunite and continue to be the greatest county in the U.S. of A.!

J.C. Edwards
Conroe, Tx

LETTERS:The book comes highly recommended

Do the concerned moral folks of Montgomery County realize that the esteemed pediatrician columnists in the Houston Chronicle, Drs. Brazelton and Sparrow, recommend (Oct. 22) "It's Perfectly Normal," the very same book that Montgomery County residents are up in arms about because of its honest language about sex?
Surely it's time to also toss out these good doctors' books from the library because they believe "you should always communicate honestly about sexuality and body parts.....The earlier parents start, the more credibility they'll have later on." Montgomery County parents who wish to be "credible" may have to find their resources outside their county library.
Wednesday and Thursday mornings (10/23-24) the TODAY show had a guest psychiatrist who also advised talking honestly and frankly to children about sex. Maybe the frantic Montgomery County parents need to move into the 21st century.

Sue Null
Houston, Tx.

LETTERS:Opposing the Unopposed

As a relatively new resident to the Montgomery area, I was dismayed to read about the unfortunate situation involving the public library system here. As a property owner/taxpayer, I am a great proponent of public libraries and have always considered a good one an essential amenity to a community. In learning of Judge Sadler's handling of the situation, I am truly disappointed that he is running unopposed. (I WILL vote, so I intend to deliberately abstain from casting a ballot where he is concerned!) My desire for continued residency in this area may be influenced by the outcome of this bond.
I am thoroughly disgusted that the books in question are under review. I think the sudden revision of the process for review is abhorrent. To all who condone or share the Neanderthal thinking responsible for this recent attempt at censorship, shame on you! What a slap in the face to American Veterans who have fought to preserve our basic freedoms in this country. I see this attempt at censorship as the product of small-minded, judgmental, megalomaniacs ...or your basic, garden-variety red-necks. Either way it truly saddens me.
I am the parent of a seven year old whom I love dearly and naturally hope to protect from many social evils. However, eliminating access to books that are viewed as acceptable by the American Library Association is doing our children a great disservice. I would hope that my son is already equipped with the morals, ethics, and values to confront literature of all kinds, now and throughout his life, and draw appropriate conclusions for himself. I will always allow him the freedom of thought while encouraging a moderate Christian philosophy. Ultimately, this will allow him to become an independent thinker; righteous through his knowledge, and truly committed to his beliefs, because they will be his own.

Jeanne Lupardus
Montgomery, Tx

LETTERS:Amazed

Yes, I was reading the article (And a Child Shall Lead Them by Susan Fitts, ISSUE 42) I live in Tennessee and I am interested in the CD that was mentioned "Alex's Live from Duncan Recital Hall" Can it be purchased from any place or would you have to order it from someplace else. Could you please let me know I am really interested in hearing his music.
Thank you, I really enjoyed reading the article.

Kathleen White
Bulletin Online Reader

LETTERS:Halo and Horns

This new Dolly Parton cd is awesome.
(O Dolly, where art thou by Mark Williams, ISSUE 28) This is the best she has done in awhile I think. I have followed her through the years and reallly enjoying this one. Seems she will be singing Hello God on awards next week which should be good. I enjoyed your article. Thanks.

Larry Behm
Conroe, Tx

LETTERS:Won't get fooled again

I found this article quite harsh (Won't get fooled again by Mark Williams, ISSUE 29)and your lack of what Townshend has done for Entwistle in the past was ignored. John was a truly brilliant bass player but during his life we all know about the quite side he portrayed, but what about the way he burned the candle at both ends? Pete played many shows to help the poor lad get out of debt.
John drank and smoked too much, and knew he had a heart condition, I am sure the autopsy found something other than blocked arteries to help induce his heart failure.
You also failed to mention that Pete plays numerous shows for charity, aka. teen cancer and the Maryville Academy. As far as Who's Next being their last great album, I still believe Quadraphenia, and The Who By Numbers to be great works. How you can compare Meatloaf to the Who is quite comical but then again you are a critic thus you must toss bad ink at something.
Anyway those who went to the shows claim they were some of the who's best performances, with Townshend sober and Daltrey still able to hit the high notes why stop touring. The stones did not quit after the death of Brian Jones, oh I forgot, they loved him so much that he was kicked out of the band, and then died.
The Who could have done the same for Moon, but Pete loved his bandmate too much to commit such a dreadful act. These people are musicians and what is your suggestion to quit that to what inspires passion in their lives. Truly a misguided article, your cheap shots are weak, and you live with what you write.

Kells Walker
Montgomery County

LETTERS:Gay communities are model communities

After reading some of the letters posted by your readers it was necessary for me to pick my chin up from the ground. I could not believe the nonsense promoted by some of the letter writers to your newspaper.
Being originally from the San Francisco bay area, I know first hand what the gay community is and is not about. Some of the letters cited all of this "so-called" scientific and anecdotal evidence that homosexuality is some sort of, at best, a choice or at worst a perversion. The city of San Francisco has been the most tolerant civic entity towards the gay community. Using this type of logic, everyone from San Francisco should be gay and the city a poor crime ridden community.
Take a look, the crime rate is same as the rest of the country and the Bay Area has the most expensive real estate in the nation.
I'm from there and I have never had any predisposition or desire to be gay. To suggest that homosexuality is some sort of addiction has no basis in fact. The opinion of one physician is not evidence but is a single subjective conclusion. I have never met or have been associated with anyone straight who decided to "try gay". Being heterosexual I have no attraction to another male and I can say for certain that the bigots that posted these letters have less than no desire to try out the gay lifestyle either. Their own rhetoric argues against their position.
Using examples such as a 13-year-old kid that was molested by an adult cannot validate the bigot's argument since the adult in question was not a homosexual. The adult in question was a pederast. That is a big difference. Using the prison example does not take into account that most straight inmates were forced to engage in homosexual acts. What is the percentage of the aforementioned inmates being forced? In San Francisco they moved into an area called the Castro District that was one of the worst sections in town. Not only did the crime rate go down but also the property values went up. Gays and Lesbians are not just a bunch of perverted fiends. They are valued; tax paying and productive United States citizens. I ask the bigots, since they believe that homosexuals are so nefarious, what do you propose to do about them? Round them up?

G. P. King
The Woodlands

LETTERS:Print the pictures

I have read, with interest, articles, letters, etc. concerning the controversy over Montgomery County Libraries' policies and their shelving the books for children which discuss, and illustrate, sexual topics, including homosexuality, lesbianism, etc.
I suggest you publish the illustration used in these books in future editions of The Bulletin and request that your readers then vote "yes" or "no" on whether or not they should be removed from the libraries.
I think this would add a lot to settling this matter.

Jeff L. Anderson
Panorama Village

LETTERS:On behalf of the Library Staff

These last few months emotions have run high and charges have increased as to responsibility for the cause of the current censorship issue in our county. Implications, direct and indirect have been levied at county employees. Yet no one has risen to the front to challenge those implications or speak for the library staff. Librarians believe their jobs are on the line and silently watch the growth and the turns of this issue. This current discourse consists of more than one phase.
One phase is the question of censorship by a governmental entity. Many Montgomery County citizens clearly see this as an action of book banning enforced by our elected officials and an attack on our first amendment rights. Fear is a major player in this phase. Recently a Senior citizen told me he was from Prussia, and remembering what occurred in World War II, this action by government greatly disturbs him.
The second phase of this discourse is the issue of trust. Based on recent meetings, I sense that our elected officials do not "trust" the library employees, people they themselves hired, in their positions of responsibility. Judge Sadler recently defended listening to citizens rather than doing his own research by stating, "I've trusted people I know who have researched it". None of these people are county employed librarians.
There are reasons this has happened at this time, at this place. As our county increases in number and diversity of population, conflict is bound to rise. The old ways cling to that which they know and trust, the wider range of ideas brought in by those born and raised elsewhere fight for their place in the county, and the personal ambitions of groups and individuals feed the fires of this current crisis.
This detailed examination by citizens of our library collection would probably have not been possible but for the entrance of our computerized library catalog. So perhaps this is a technology issue, or truly a case of George Orwell's 1984.
Citizens have now turned the discussion to say it is a safety issue for their children. Yet these same citizens have not addressed the pressing safety issue in county libraries- the lack of adequate staff at all times so that staff might follow current policy when disruptions arise in buildings. And disruptions have occurred.
But perhaps the deepest cause for this library crisis is the lack of understanding of what a public library is. A public library is not a public school library. A public library is not designed only for children. It is used by adults in library school with assigned reading lists, by home school and public school teachers, by local day cares, by medical personnel, by businessmen and women, and by the public for recreational needs, for education needs, and even for those in crisis. And as our population grows, so will the range of a good library.
A good library is alive with ideas, it is current, it is the home of great ideas and unanswered questions.
The answer to this question will be heard on November 5 at our local polls, and our answer will be heard round the nation.

Janis Allen
Spring, Tx

LETTERS:Mr. Steve, our hero

I am 7 and my sister is 9. I would like to say thank you to an angel who helped my grandmother. We live with her and she is all we have. She went everywhere to get our flat tires fixed on our bike and everyone wanted to much money.
A man overheard my grandmother and told her to see a man at Jim's Auto. Mr. Steve fixed our bikes from the kindness of his heart. Mr. Steve you are our hero! Thank You.

Toni Morgan and Cheyenne Rice
Conroe, Tx

LETTERS:Bullshit article

Just wanted to comment on your bullshit article that you wrote about Joe Spann. (Canned Spann, ISSUE 45 by Mark Williams) In the many years that I have read local newspapers I have never come across a writer like you that would try to get as much information about one band by being some sort of a male gossip queen!
It is clear that you are totally unprofessional and have no clue on getting facts about things that you think you know about! If you like the band as much as you claim to, you would try to get both sides of the story before you printed it!
Look man, I don't know anything about the inner problems about 2 Bad Mice and I will never pretend but it is clear that Joe has made some big mistakes. You, as a "fan," should respect them enough to not write things to drag their dirty laundry in a seemingly well published paper to people who probably really don't give a damn about "Joe sightings"!!
If I were Joe, and I saw what you had written, you would be in for some serious problems! If I were an independent or major label rep., I would say after I had read your article that this band never had a chance to go anywhere and that Jason Mendez should stick to working on guitars. I suggest you grow up and get your own life and quit trying to gain any ground by writing gossip about a local band that doesn't deserve the negative press you have brought to them!
PS, we all got a big laugh about what you wrote about the last Spencefest, It was a total untrue joke!! Think before you print.

Mike Pruneda
Hollister Fracus

LETTERS:Not ready for electric cars yet

Texas is in deep trouble. Over the past four years, Texas oil and gas production has dropped drastically. Texas produced over 78 million barrels of oil less in 2001 than it did in 1998. This year is the first time that Texas has produced less than 1 million barrels of oil a day in a month since records were first kept in the 1930's. Texas produced over 33 million cubic feet of natural gas less in 2001 than it did in 1998 (http://www.rrc.state.tx.us).
What is worse is that 869 small oil and gas operators have gone out of business in the last year as of June. This is the fastest decline on record and represents more than 10% of the active operators in the state. With these operators going out of business, it 1) cuts jobs, 2) leaves numerous oil wells unplugged and potentially hazardous, 3) cuts property taxes on wells down to zero, and 4) makes us more dependent upon imported and foreign oil.
The reason for the loss of jobs and added abandoned wells comes from the state itself. Senate Bill 310 puts unfair and draconian stipulations and levies on producers, making them pay up to $250,000 just to be licensed. The Texas Railroad Commission has been the invisible hand strangling Texas' producers. By misinterpreting the law, enacting it unfairly, and gleefully crushing many Texan's only source of income, Texas has become a woeful state. Recently, a Houston judge, Judge Livingston, has granted an injunction against the RRC from enforcing these regulations.
Although faced with soaring abandoned well fees, loss of production, loss of jobs, and loss of revenue, Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams is preparing to appeal the ruling so he can continue to watch Texas's energy independence diminish. One of the three commissioners, Matthews, voted not to appeal the injunction; leaving us to assume he believed the ruling was correct.
Texas has long been the forerunner in oil production. The revenue from the oil and gas fields build our schools, fund our state universities, keep us free from a state income tax, and keep our oil and gas prices (at home and at the pump) way down. If we lose energy production here, we must find it elsewhere.
We cannot simply do without. When our energy production is lost, so is the revenue that it produces. Instead of money going from Texans to Texans, it goes to Canada, Mexico, or the Middle East. Imported oil carries no property tax. Instead of getting oil from wells already here in Texas, we will have to drill more offshore, drill in wildlife refuges, and be at the mercy of maniacal Middle Eastern despots who aren't exactly crazy about us right now.
Let's keep our energy independence in Texas.

Derek Levisay
Bulletin Online Reader

LETTERS:Bush fails the test

I claim that President Bush is not a Bible believing Christian. I claim that the Bible proves that President Bush is a liar. Furthermore, I claim that the Bible clearly states that Bible believing Christians need to keep their distance from President Bush.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." (Isaiah 8:20, KJV) This quote from the Bible is a test that can be used to tell when a person is pretending to be a Bible believing Christian. This test states that if a person does not speak according to the law and the testimony then that person is not a Bible believing Christian. That person is a liar who is using the Lord's name for their own vain purposes.
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." (Mathew 7:15 - 20, KJV) This quote from the Bible is a test that can also be used to tell when a person is pretending to be a Bible believing Christian. This test states that you can tell when a person is a wolf in sheep clothing by the results that their efforts produce.
President Bush is a liar who is using the Lord's name for his own vain purposes and President Bush is a wolf in sheep's clothing who has been exposed by the results of his own efforts.
The fact that President Bush is more interested in bombing Iraq than in saving unborn babies is strong evidence that supports my assertions.
"Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, 'I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. (2 Cor 6:14 - 18, NASB)
This quote from the Bible clearly warns Bible believing Christians not to give their support to people like President Bush. Bible believing Christians should believe the Bible and not give their support to President Bush.

Charles Henry Schoonover
Bulletin Online Reader

LETTERS:Abortion, The American Holocaust

Holocaust, a word that means the mass slaughter of people. What then is abortion? Eleven years ago I stood on line with a number of different women. It was like an assembly line each of us waiting to enter the infirmary. I remember the girl behind me. She must have been at least six months pregnant because her belly was very large. I kept saying why did she wait so late, she is killing her baby? Not realizing that though my stomach was flat, I was doing the same. I remember a women smiling in my face after I woke up and taking me to a room where I sat and had a cup of tea and two tylenol. She said it would help with my pain. Today I ask myself which pain ? The emotional pain I have suffered once I realized I took my baby to be slaughtered or the physical pain I have suffered from infertility and now breast cancer. Funny how I have lost a baby, an ovary and now a breast. Abortion has nothing to do with women's health, power or choice. It is a complete loss of humanity. We pride ourselevs on a Constitution that vows everyone has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness yet allow our laws to protect the same acts and cruelty of Hitler. Everytime you see an advertisement for abortion, know that that is an advertisement for the slaughter of people. If there is any question that a child in the womb is not yet a person look at the evidence, look at yourself.

Thank you,
Charnette Messe

LETTERS:Morals are the Basis of a Free Republic, not Free Speech

Lori Flint, who wrote the bulk of the article (Who is the RLC? ISSUE 46) defined a classic straw man which she could discredit. And to discredit was, apparently, her intent, not to answer the question posed by the title.
She revealed her position as being in line with a French Revolutionary libertine, concluding her article with the famous Voltaire phrase loved by all philosophic amoral sorts, "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Think about that statement with me for a moment. On a surface level it may sound wonderful. But do you really want to enable the ability of some pervert or criminal to say anything to your wife or children? Do you really want to enable the most foul and pornographic, or the most insulting, threatening and hate-filled language that can be uttered or imagined? No, you don't. Would you really want the airport security people not to detain crazy characters who tell them they are interested in hijacking plane flights? No you wouldn't. If you did, you would invite all kinds of terror upon you, your family, and your country. True freedom comes with moral responsibility.
Voltaire and his contemporary philosopher Rousseau gave birth to a freedom in France that was a repudiation of traditional values, bound to fail because it hated the fact that true freedom comes only with moral responsibility. The revolutionaries turned the Cathedral at Notre Dame into a "Temple to Reason", and the French Revolution plunged almost immediately into the "Reign of Terror", with the slaughter of hundreds daily at the guillotines. Within just a few years the movement needed the dictator Napoleon Bonaparte to bring order and stability.
What we all want instead is the freedom envisioned by the American Revolution, a highly successful republic. We want a freedom based in the transcendence of moral character and the Judeo-Christian ethic.
Mrs Flint says, "The sine qua non, or essential element, of a republic is free speech." Contrast that Voltairian philosophy with what the Founding Fathers of America had to say. For example, George Washington said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens."
Religion and morality are the great pillars on which a truly free republic rests. That has been the hallmark of American freedom. That has made America great. America has had good laws and justice based in traditional Biblical moral principle. And the consciences of its citizenry have been widely and deeply influenced by the Bible. But this great republic is being run-over by a French Revolution-style libertine philosophy which says get rid of God and the Bible in the public square; which says we should expose our children to the full diversity of thought and behavior in our libraries; which says we should harden and brainwash our children away from traditional morality and toward sexual permissiveness; etc. Is it any wonder that some perverted adult man was charged recently with raping/sodomizing a twelve year old boy in the restroom of a public library in Houston? He quite possibly was feeding his lust and becoming aroused by material he was consuming in the library.
Mrs Flint complains about needing to maintain free access to information. Let me point out that our libraries stock 418,000 books in Montgomery County. But over 12 million books can be purchased through BarnesandNoble.com. In other words, over 97% of the books are "screened" out of the libraries, and what gets carried are a preponderance of the leftist, libertine, anti-traditional values material, according to the anti-traditional-values policies of the American Library Association. Our libraries do not give "free" access to information. They give biased access to information. They do not protect minors from inappropriate information, and they are not run in the best interests of the local taxpaying community. They, by their Voltairian philosophy, in the words of George Washington, "labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness (religion and morality), these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens."
The RLC has called attention to these critical issues because, as far as I can tell.

Mark Cadwallader
Conroe, Tx

LETTERS:Non-Christians can have family values too

I find it disheartening that people tend to associate those that were against the censorship of those materials with being against family values. Let's be real here---is Mainstream Montgomery, the Student Political Activism Club, and other organizations against family values, or, as some on the right would argue, are they against the Christian doctrine? The real answer to that question is that these organizations are not anti-family values or anti-Christianity, in fact, they happen to be pro-freedom, pro-freedom of speech, pro-first amendment rights, and pro-discourse construction.
I applaud the community which passed the library bond. As Mr. Rushing Jr said, our libraries belong to our community, and with clear, intellectual, and calculated actions, our community responded, and we passed the bond, and we reinstalled the books in their original place. Remember always, family values do not necessarily equal Christian values--the two can, at times, come in conflict with one another, and while some Christians claim that Christianity is against homosexuality ( a claim which I believe lacks legitimacy), there are quite a few members in this community that are not Christian, and homosexuality is not condemned--to say that those people lack family values shows an utter sense of disregard to diversity, tolerance, and compassion.

Pritesh Gandhi
The Woodlands, TX

LETTERS:The RLC lied at the Polls

"To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement."-Thomas Jefferson
Mark Cadwallader seems to think that free speech should be limited, contradicting the very foundation this country was built upon. (Morals are the basis of a free republic, not free speech, ISSUE 47 a letter by Mark Cadwallader) Contrary to his assertions, this was not a country founded on Biblical principles. Nowhere in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence does it mention either the Bible, Jesus, or a specifically Christian God. In fact, George Washington NEVER ONCE referred to Christ or Christianity in ANY of his written letters or speeches. He instead used "the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men"
Having established that America is not a nation founded by and for Christians alone, I would also like to address his analysis of free speech. Cadwallader stated that we would not want a "pervert or criminal to say anything to your wife or children." If this person were harassing my wife or child, the authorities would be involved. Harassment is not protected by free speech. Neither are threats of terrorism which was used as another example. This is akin to yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and the Supreme Court has already ruled this is not protected speech.
Cadwallader asks another question, "Do you really want to enable the most foul and pornographic, or the most insulting, threatening and hate-filled language that can be uttered or imagined?" Although I don't enjoy reading it, the answer is yes. I would be afraid that if I limited what I considered obscene or pornographic, someone like Cadwallader would come along and try to censor what I found acceptable. In all reality, I find some of the language used by people against homosexuals both in print and out loud to be repulsive, obscene and pornographic but I still support your right to say it. I find the recent KKK rally in Montgomery to be offensive and threatening but they still have the right to their thoughts and feelings and the right to express them.
Cadwallader asserts that "true freedom comes with moral responsibility" and I don't disagree. I do wonder, though, whose morals he wants used as a measuring stick? His? Mine? Osama Bin Laden's? Everyone has their own set of morals and I do not accept Cadwallader's as mine and therefore should not be obligated to live by them.
I would also pose a question to the "holier than thou" moral watchdogs like Cadwallader. During the recent election, I was besieged with anti-library bond propaganda when approaching the polls. I was lied to by those giving me this information and told if the bond was approved the current Woodlands library would be destroyed. They attempted to mislead me by stating I would in fact be voting for $41 million dollar bond not just a $10 million dollar bond. They tried to assert that the purpose for this bond was to stock the library with more "Kiddie Porn." Based on Dr. Flint's research for her article, (Who is the RLC? ISSUE 46 by Lori J. Flint) it also seems that the RLC is misleading and concealing their involvement in the Lone Star PAC. How can these people consider themselves morally upright when they resort to lies and half-truths in order to win their battle?
Looking at the Ten Commandments, it seems this is in clear violation of Commandment Eight (Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor) although I cannot see anywhere in the Commandments where homosexuality is expressly condemned. Please explain these inconsistencies because as I see it, those who are lying to us and misleading us are the far greater sinners.

Matt Potter
Spring, Texas

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