Laguna Hills

The Wrong Idea

Enough, Howard Rosenberg. Your slanderous take on those Christians who took issue with “It’s Elementary,” a film encouraging schoolchildren to understand the homosexual lifestyle as a normal alternative to heterosexuality, reflects your ignorance of the nature of Christian love (“Debating Gay Issues in School and On Air,” April 12).

You lump opponents of the film with those who murdered Matthew Shepard and slam them as bigots who “profess love but nourish hatred” of gays. Ridiculous and irrational.

Christians who view homosexual behavior as destructive do so out of love for God and their fellow humanity. Judeo-Christian tradition insists that committed, heterosexual marriage is the best context for sexual expression. Christians thus want to encourage adherence to that truth, and they discourage social influences to the contrary.

Opposition to “It’s Elementary” has nothing to do with murder or bigotry. Nor is it anti-gay. The God of the Old and New Testaments upholds his human creation with love and profound dignity--a dignity than includes the call to reserve sexual behavior for marriage.

That has nothing to do with hating homosexuals. It involves upholding a truth that dignifies our young people and enables them to be creative and responsible, sexually speaking.

As a former homosexual, now happily married with four children, I’m grateful to those who upheld that truth and whose love enabled me to realize it.

REV. ANDREW COMISKEY

Director, Desert Stream Ministries

Yorba Linda