Fw: "Gay clientele" was RE: Erard Grand Piano

[Tom Driscoll]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John M. Formsma" <jformsma@dixie-net.com>


> <<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.
>
> 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. If you have a problem
> with homosexuality being wrong, then don't take it up with me--take it up
> with God. God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
>
> 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
>