PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Thanks For Taking Stand On Announcement

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — In a recent issue of the newspaper, a writer thanked you for your good services, but he was very displeased that you chose not to advertise his friend’s upcoming “wedding” with his boyfriend in June.

Let me say a big thank you for your integrity in not advertising such a mockery of the God-given marriage, which was ordained by God, between a man and a woman. God made them “male and female” in the beginning and commanded them to be fruitful and multiply. Never has a gay couple or a lesbian couple been able to fulfi ll that command of God, without help from outside that union.

For any religious organization and its pastor to give the approval for such a mock marriage is a slap to the face of almighty God who created them. They have taken on themselves to change what God decreed, as if they knew more than him. Jesus Christ made it clear when he was here: “The church is subject unto Christ.” The “church” cannot make its own rules and regulations.

All such must come from Holy Writ (Eph. 5:23).

Jehovah God had plenty to say about the abomination and sins of sodomy: “Man lying with man and woman changing the natural use to a thing of sin,” also, the abominations of men and women with animals, called bestiality (Rom. 1:19-32).

Thanks for your stand for the truth.

ALTON W. FONVILLE / St. Paul

ACCUSATIONS REQUIRE PROOF

For sheriff candidate Mike Jones: kindly provide proof to back up your allegation that Kelley Cradduck has falsely accused you of violating the Hatch Act.

I know enough about Cradduck to believe he is an upstanding gentleman, honest and trustworthy and can be believed when he says he doesn’t know the particulars of the Hatch Act. So, please provide your sources.

He could turn this around, of course, and accuse you or someone involved in your campaign of being behind this to, as you said in the Feb. 24 story, score political points. I’m sure either you or Kelley will make a fi ne sherift, but accusations - to be believed - must be supported.

We have had enough of the “he said/she said” circus within the Republican Party as challengers jockey to become the next president, so we don’t need to bring this kind of campaigning down to the local level.

You will get more support if you run on your merit rather than bad-mouthing your opponent.

NITA MCKELVEY / Bella Vista