FALWELL TELLS THE GOSPEL TRUTH

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 23, 1993                   TAG: 9303230383
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FALWELL TELLS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
BECAUSE I am an Episcopal minister, you might not expect me to write in support of the Rev. Dr. Jerry Falwell, but that is my purpose.
Dr. Falwell has his faults, and I am sure he has made mistakes in his 38 years as a minister. Which of us has no faults and has not sinned? What the Roanoke Times & World-News readers fail to be told are of the many tremendous works that God has accomplished through Dr. Falwell. Even many of his detractors have admitted that he is a friendly, caring and upright man.
Nancy Fudge (letter, March 7) writes that Jerry Falwell is on a hate campaign against gays and she admonishes Dr. Falwell to "love his neighbor" and "to do unto others as he would have them do unto him." That is exactly what he appears to be doing.
He obviously loves homosexuals enough to tell them the scriptural truth - that the practice of homosexuality is sin, and that Jesus Christ has the power and desire to set the homosexual (or any other captive) free.
Telling people the scriptural truth might not seem "loving" to some. Would they rather have Dr. Falwell bless sin and give the homosexual no hope? REV. RAYMOND LAWRENCE ROANOKE

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