Dear Sir,
Live and let live.
With growing dismay, I have read the recent letters about homosexuality. Whatever one’s religious beliefs or opinions, surely in this enlightened age, science must bear some weight. After all, we enjoy the developments that have given us better health and longer life, to say nothing of the comforts that engineering and technology have given us. To select only those scientific facts that upset one’s religious beliefs is ridiculous. (and remember, not everyone holds the same beliefs religious or otherwise). It’s rather frightening to think that intelligent, articulate people like Pastor Harrigan who are in positions to possibly influence young people, will sift through scientific facts and portray some of them as something not to be believed, simply because they are inconvenient to their beliefs.
Our world has changed in the last 3 thousand years….after all, we no longer cast out lepers, nor do we brand people born with disabilities as “sinful”. In our society, these ideas changed along with stoning and crucifying. To select a few of the ancient values to apply to life today is nonsense. How can any caring, intelligent person in this day and age, say in one breath that they “love gays” but recommend they be “born again” in the next? What on earth does this mean? Being gay is not a lifestyle choice, which anyone who knows gay people understands.
Perhaps there will be a Day or Judgment, …..but so far it has not materialised and until then, I would suggest that we learn to care for the lives being lived today, whatever their short-comings. If they happen to have been born with a different set of genes that makes them “different”, so be it. It makes not one whit of difference to anyone else’s life, so please, live and let live.
Editor’s note:
The views expressed in the above article are those of the writer and not necessarily those of The Anguillian newspaper.
