Re Jeffery McCann’s
letter “Christian wants freedom to selectively discriminate” of Jul 26, 2018
Since Mr. McCann chooses
to paint Christians with a rather broad and negative brush, my guess is that he
may not understand Christian values.
Chief among those values is the notion that we love the sinner, but hate
the sin.
The LGBT cake baking
brouhaha is not about rejecting people.
It’s about rejecting sin. It’s
not about homophobia. It’s about
theology.
Like a good many of
today’s frustrated, angry and humorless Leftist, McCann might reside at the junction
of arrogance, ignorance and intolerance.
Only a rare strain
of arrogance would allow someone to state unequivocally that another “does not
walk with God.” To make that claim of another publicly on the pages of the JG passes
arrogance and, if anyone on the Left were capable of shame anymore, is shameful.
Only willful
ignorance allows someone to argue that all sins and sinners are equal. The sinner who lies, telling his wife that those
jeans don’t make her backside look big, is substantially different from the one
who is having an affair with the neighbor’s wife. Does McCann really think that the man will
demand a cake celebrating his adultery? Does McCann really believe that the
baker will bake it?
Only that kind of
arrogance and ignorance can combine to create the kind of intolerance commonly found
on the Left today – intolerance in the name of tolerance.
In McCann’s world
Jews and Muslims should be forced to violate their religious beliefs by being
required to serve him ham sandwiches, because refusing to do so would demonstrate
intolerance. So instead of being tolerant
of their religious beliefs and walking a block to another vendor, McCann prefers
to ruin their lives by suing them. Everyone must be tolerant of McCann, but he is
under no obligation to reciprocate.
This is not about
getting a cake baked. It is about intolerant
fascists like McCann forcing you to violate your religious beliefs in the name
of his intolerant oddball idea of tolerance.
Note to editors:
What a dopey headline for McCann’s letter. Discrimination by definition is “selective”. Given the asinine headlines you’ve placed
over a couple of my own letters, McCann’s headline, sadly, is not surprising.
Christian wants
freedom to selectively discriminate
This is in response to
Beth Watts' ridiculous letter to the editor July 18 headlined “Stand up for
God.” She claims to be a Christian and “needs to speak up for God.” What is
strange is her railing against the LBGT community and her inability to do and
say what she believes. She does not rail against murderers, rapists or people
who commit adultery – she only mentions the LBGT community.
If she truly wants to
take a stand in the name of God and hide behind religious freedom, then she
needs to treat all sinners in the same manner. She, like most so-called
Christians or people who believe they are Christians, feel they can select what
they want to follow and believe. Here is a news flash – that is not following
the word of God.
If, under the disguise
of religious freedom, they do not want to bake a cake for a gay couple, then
likewise they should not be serving anyone who has committed adultery, a
pathological liar or anyone who has sinned against the word of God. She wants
to be selective, but that practice falls under discrimination, not an assault
on her religious freedom.
Miss Watts wanting to
inflict her beliefs on me is infringing on my rights and religious freedoms.
She wants to be judge and jury.
Miss Watts may think
she is a Christian, but she does not walk with God.
Jeffrey McCann
Spencerville
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