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

DATE: TUESDAY, May 11, 1993                   TAG: 9305110524
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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SCHOLARSHIP OR CHRISTIAN-BASHING?

WHAT IS Myer S. Reed, a Radford sociology professor, teaching in class if the commentary entitled "Arguments concerning gays in military are hysterical nonsense" (April 19) is so culturally naive and biblically ignorant? A biblical Holy God loves people but hates sin, even if Arthur Miller can't figure that out. When pseudo-intellectuals and liberals tell Christians what the Bible says and what it means, they violate academic integrity.

I remind him that God destroyed the whole world, except Noah and all in the ark, because of wickedness and sin. After reading of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, after reading through Old Testament law and examining New Testament passages in Romans, Revelation, etc., how can any educated person state that godly wrath was equally severe on those who ate certain foods or weren't circumcised? Is this a typical example of scholarship at Radford or another illustration of Christian-bashing and politically correct thinking? After being in higher education for more than 15 years, I know there's more bigotry on campuses than within churches.

The Bible does speak against divorce, but I don't see a divorce agenda, marches or a divorce "rights" group. Both divorce and homosexuality destroy.

Videos made at gay marches reveal their contempt for purity, arrogance and mockery of a just society. It's not their private rights, because they are out of their bedrooms and bathhouses and into our schools promoting their perversions. They even elected a president, with the help of the media, who bends to their political whim. DAVE HILLIS ROANOKE

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