Letters to the editor

Essay on homosexuality raises several questions
Dan Adams’ Aug. 12 commentary (“Let’s be clear about what Bible says on homosexuality”) seemed to create more of a question than an answer regarding the homosexuality issue.
Let me first explain that I view homosexuality as a sin no different from other sins. I think we should have love and compassion for the homosexual sinner. We should pray for repentance of the homosexual sinner—no different from any other sin or sinner.
Mr. Adams says, “First, it is generally accepted that homosexuality as we understand it wasn’t known in Bible times. … Second, I think it is highly unlikely that biblical writers … ever conceived of a committed, monogamous relationship between two people of the same sex.”
If God created homosexuals to be monogamous and committed, when did he do that? Does Mr. Adams mean God just start producing them recently?
Or is Mr. Adams implying some type of evolution that we should just tolerate and accept? Are there other examples of evolved behavior similar to this one? If God didn’t create homosexuals to be this way from the beginning, why do you suppose not?
Mr. Adams wants us to believe homosexuals are evolving into monogamous, committed pairings not seen in Jesus’ time. But he doesn’t explain when and why this evolution began. Maybe those answers would help his point.
Stephen Williams
Pearsall

Both right, left wings have seduced church leaders
Chuck Merrill told the truth about Christian leaders being seduced by political alliances (“Political right wing has seduced, silenced part of church,” July 22).
The sad truth is some Christian leaders focused on a few issues important to them (Mr. Merrill mentioned abortion, homosexuality, and the “right to die”), and fell silent on other important issues (Mr. Merrill mentioned poverty, health care, distribution of wealth, and capital punishment).
Sometimes Christians have so identified with a particular political party that they no longer speak with a prophetic voice to that same party. It sounds like the many kings of Israel and Judah who were corrupted by pragmatic political alliances with pagan nations.
Mr. Merrill failed to mention that the seduction of political alliance takes place not only on the right but also on the left. Sometimes Christian leaders become so identified with left-wing politics that they bring no prophetic voice to bear on the policies and people of the left.
Personal immorality by left-wing politicians is deemed irrelevant, as if character doesn’t influence politics. There are calls for government to solve an increasing number of problems, without examining the difference between Jesus’ call for me to commit my resources to helping the needy and the political process of taking the resources of others through taxation to help the poor.
Finally, and of greatest concern to me, Christian leaders seduced by right- or left-wing politics can get so caught up in their preferred politics that they neglect the main thing we are called to be about: proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We are, after all, supposed to be “Offering Christ to All.”
J. David Trawick
San Antonio