To the Editor,
It is beyond my comprehension how anyone who calls himself a Christian and believes that the Bible is God’s word would vote against Amendment One. The Bible defines marriage very plainly as between one man and one woman (Matthew 19:4-6). I have heard the arguments that marriage between a man and a woman is already the only legal marriage that is allowed in North Carolina. I have also heard the argument that it is not legal for homosexuals to get married in North Carolina so why vote for the marriage amendment.
The amendment when passed will protect marriage from being redefined in North Carolina by activist judges and politicians. As we have seen happen in other states, the first of what will be many lawsuits was filed in North Carolina challenging our marriage laws in December 2011. Each of these lawsuits demands that the definition of marriage for everyone be permanently changed to suit the needs of one same-sex couple. The lawsuit filed in Guilford County is just another example of why the marriage protection amendment is needed and should be passed by North Carolina voters on May 8.
If activist judges or politicians were to succeed in redefining marriage in North Carolina in the future, there would be profound consequences for religious organizations, individuals, and society itself. That is the reason we should vote for the Marriage Amendment.
Eddie Driggers
Proctorville







Here are several translations so that you don't try the "It depends on the translation" game.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 corinthians 6:9-10&version=NIV
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 corinthians 6:9-10&version=KJV
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 corinthians 6:9-10&version=NKJV
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 corinthians 6:9-10&version=ESV
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 corinthians 6:9-10&version=NASB
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 corinthians 6:9-10&version=NLT
Being homosexual may not be a sin, but the practice of it surely is. If a homosexual is God-loving, then they accept all of His Word and not just the parts they like.
Watch the video I posted in my other comment and see what you think.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1:26-27
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
God said it was an abomination and death was the punishment - but you say that He is who you serve. Pointing the finger at us as if we should not follow and teach what the Bible says is pointless. If you hate the Word - you hate God because the Word is God. If you have a problem with us standing on Gods Word then you need to take it up with Him.
God prefers kind GAYS over Hateful, Pain Inflicting, Hypocritical "Christians".
In your definition of marriage, are there no limits? Would you be fine with three women getting married to each other? Would you be ok with one man marrying four women? What about people that would want to marry their cars or their pets? Would you have no problem with that?
If you answered yes to all of those questions, then you're free to call others pain inflicting and hateful. But you find objections with any marriages outside of man/woman, man/man, or woman/woman, then you are pain inflicting and being hateful of others simply because of what makes them happy.
Your use of quotation marks around the word Christian leads me to believe that you are someone who has a problem with them. How about not judging Christians and accepting them for who they are? You are the expert on what God prefers, right?
Here's a YouTube video about homosexuals and Christianity you may find interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIw6ngIqaD0
What is the first thing you learned in Sunday school? The first thing that I learned growing up in Sunday school – that God created me, that God loves me, that I am a beloved child of God, no more and no less valuable than anyone else. Why should that be any different for a gay person?
That is not the first thing you learned in Sunday school. We are not all of God's children...Jesus said that those who do HIS FATHERS will are his children. The first thing you should have learned in Sunday school should have been...you are born a sinner, and in order to receive salvation from your sins, you must accept JESUS, who was the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of man. Every man/woman that is born has sin that they must deal with; they will ALL keep you from a relationship with GOD. However, Jesus paid the price, so that we would have a way to fellowship with the Father. Marriage is a institution derived from GOD, HE sets the rules, not Christians...you'll have to take it up with him.