"Gay clientele" was RE: Erard Grand Piano

[Elwood Doss, Jr.]

Amen, John, well put!

Elwood

-----Original Message-----
From: John M. Formsma <jformsma@dixie-net.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, October 05, 2001 10:33 AM
Subject: RE: "Gay clientele" was RE: Erard Grand Piano


><<John, Let's learn, have a little fun and leave the moralistic rhetoric
for
>another audience. You have a right to believe as you wish , but for one, I
>don't feel it's appropriate on this list.>>
>
>This is a two way street. If others will refrain from posting things like
>Seinfeld's "moralistic rhetoric," then I will refrain from responding to
it.
>Neither statement should be on Pianotech. Remember, it is just as
>inconsiderate for one to post a pro-homosexuality statement as it is for
>another to post a statement against it. There are several (maybe many) on
>the list who hold to the high standards of morality on which our nation was
>originally founded. As much as some are offended by my posting, remember
>that others may likewise be offended by Seinfeld's morality. Is it
>permissible to ask that *our* standards not be assaulted as we watch them
>daily fade away? Must we silently endure the erosion of virtue while others
>are given the media "megaphone" to promote their decadent views? Have we no
>voice, or must we always yield to those who are louder, more visible, and
>more vociferous? I say nay.
>
><<What it is, frankly, is bigotry....>>
>
>It is not bigotry to believe strongly about righteousness. For example, I
am
>not bigoted against murderers if I state that murder is wrong. Nor am I
>bigoted to state that bestiality is wrong. Both are wrong, and the reason
>that they are wrong is not because I say so, but because our Creator said
>so. We have to go back to the source of righteousness to find the standards
>of righteousness, and that ultimately leads to God. It does not really
>matter what you or I think, but what God thinks. God made Adam and Eve, not
>Adam and Steve. The Bible has numerous other clear examples of God's
>thoughts on this issue.
>
><<...not just the people you hate>>
>
>It does not follow that I hate homosexuals anymore than it could be said
>that I hate murderers because I believe murder is wrong. I do not hate
>anyone. I do not have that right. I treat all human beings with respect. I
>would be glad to help anyone leave homosexuality just as I would be glad to
>help anyone leave a lifestyle of adultery or fornication. People are
people,
>but people are responsible *creat*ures before their *Creat*or.
>
>
>John M. Formsma
>Blue Mountain, MS
>PTG Associate, Memphis Chapter
>
>mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com
>
>