{"id":2701,"date":"2009-01-05T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2009-01-05T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T17:38:33","slug":"loving-the-sinnercontinued-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2701","title":{"rendered":"Loving The Sinner&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Letters To The Editor page of the Asheville North Carolina Citizen-Times, January 4, 2009.&nbsp; Welcome to the New Year my fellow gay Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Regarding the story, &ldquo;Gay wedding ban protested,&rdquo; (AC-T, Dec. 21): I feel morally obligated to express my opinion. I am a transplant from Jackson, Miss., who is astounded by how many homosexuals have &ldquo;infested&rdquo; this beautiful city. I just don&#8217;t know what the general population should do.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the solution would be to set aside a specific state of the union for them to inhabit &ndash; perhaps we should set up a new name for Connecticut and call it &ldquo; Sodom&rdquo; or &ldquo;Gomorrah.&rdquo; I guess what these people think is that I should not be disgusted when I see them walking down the street holding hands and kissing in public. <strong>Do they think we can&#8217;t help but think about what they do in private when we see them going as far as they can in public?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I speak as a straight person and am against acts committed against God&#8217;s &ldquo;natural&rdquo; plan for the human race and the animals He put here for us to be in charge of. I encourage anyone to write an opinion on why they think that God made a male and a female.<\/p>\n<p>If God condoned this type of behavior, He would have created one sex &ndash; not two.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Robertson, Arden<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis mine.&nbsp; Lady, do you think about what an opposite sex couple does in private when you see them holding hands in public?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Of course not.&nbsp; Because when you see an opposite sex couple you think of love.&nbsp; When you see a same sex couple all you can think about is sex, because they are nothing more to you then animals.&nbsp; And that&#8217;s because you&#8217;re a bigot.&nbsp; It isn&#8217;t gays who are infesting Asheville lady.&nbsp; It&#8217;s bigots like you.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the solution would be to set aside a specific state for your kind to inhabit.&nbsp; We could call it Sodom.&nbsp; Or Gomorrah.&nbsp; You know&#8230;the two cities in the bible that were destroyed for their arrogance, greed and inhospitality.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps we could just call it the Hate state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Letters To The Editor page of the Asheville North Carolina Citizen-Times, January 4, 2009.&nbsp; Welcome to the New Year my fellow gay Americans&#8230; Regarding the story, &ldquo;Gay wedding ban protested,&rdquo; (AC-T, Dec. 21): I feel morally obligated to express my opinion. I am a transplant from Jackson, Miss., who is astounded by how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}