Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Fludd, others sell out for politics

I want to take a moment and thank all of the state representatives who chose to do the right thing by allowing the people of Georgia to decide on the issue of gay marriages in Georgia. The Georgia House approved the measure by a vote of 122 - 52.

I am asking one question here, though, and it is directed at those lawmakers who proclaim to be Christians, yet voted against this measure! On what grounds do they stand for their decision to vote against this measure?

I suppose they could be reading their message from a different Bible than my own, but I think not. No, I believe that they voted as they did based on political motives and using the term “minority rights” as their banner.

What these men and women chose to do was to compromise their beliefs (or at least the Word of God) for political gain and nothing else, and in doing so these same individuals have slapped the face of every Christian and God-loving man and women in our great state.

What makes this worse is they are choosing to categorize gays as a minority status across our land. Since when did sexual preferences make a person a minority? I have never read any text anywhere that states that a person’s sexual orientation makes them a minority.

I am not going to try and pass any judgment on these individuals as their choices they have made will be addressed by God himself one day. I think it can be stated that people who choose to represent all of the people (as directed to be by my own current Representative Virgil Fludd) have made the stand that the rights of a few are far more important than the rights of the many.

In an attempt to deny the people of the state of Georgia the right to decide whether to allow gay marriages, these very representatives have shown that political gains are more important than doing what is morally and ethically right.

When you go to the polls later this year, please remember two things: Vote NO to gay marriages here in our state and vote NO to re-elect those individuals who put political motives above the just and the right cause.

And finally, Mr. Fludd, Mr. Sailor and others who want to carry the banner of Christianity yet vote to disgrace the very words of God as words we must live by, do us all of favor and find another banner to carry when you choose to do the wrong thing.

There are too many people who look at Christians’ lives under a microscope for lies and weaknesses, and when they see people like you making the decisions you make daily, you disgrace us all and worse, you disgrace God.

Forgive me if I seem to be making a judgment of you as I am not. I am just using the word of God to measure your decisions against and I find you wanting.

John Nance

Fayetteville, Ga.