The Editor, Sir:
GOVERNOR ARNOLD Schwarzenegger's office says he'll veto a same-sex marriage bill 'out of respect for the will of the people,' delighting conservatives while dashing the hopes of advocates and democratic lawmakers who'd advanced the bill further than any other in the nation. But Press Secretary Margita Thompson noted that California voters, in 2000, approved Proposition 22, writing another same-sex marriage ban into state law.
Homosexuality is almost as old as man. The first specific mention in recorded history (other than that implied in the story of Noah, Ham and Canaan) concerns Lot and the well-known cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, over 4,000 years ago.
MEN OF SODOM
The Bible tells in graphic detail how the men of Sodom tried to sexually molest the angelic messengers of God, who looked like men, as they came to warn Lot to flee the city before its impending destruction. God was so furious that not just Sodom, but the entire civilisation in the 100-square-mile Valley of Siddim was annihilated! The word sodomy (men practising sex with men) has since become a byword for homosexuality and is obviously derived from that ancient evil city.
Assemblyman Mark Leno (Democrat, San Francisco), the bill's author, has mocked God, the Bible and is creating anarchy where there are no absolutes. No wonder both Gibbon and Toynbee concluded that homosexuality was one of the moral sins that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire and America now if it passes.
I am, etc.,
TED RUDOW III
Menlo Park
California, USA
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