Dear Editor,
Congratulations on publishing an interesting newspaper.
In the April 3 ET you published a letter titled “Marriage is sacred vow.” Well, yes and no. There are church weddings, at which sacred vows are exchanged. There are also civil weddings, with no sacred vows.
In Las Vegas, you can have your marriage performed by an Elvis impersonator. I don’t hear anybody saying that this threatens the “sanctity of marriage.”
The letter writer then quotes Leviticus 18:22. Are Christians subject to the laws in Leviticus? Consider Leviticus 11:12, “And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.” Is it a sin to eat shrimp?
I suggest instead of looking in the Bible for support for your own point of view, you read the Bible to learn what it has to teach, about removing the beam in your own eye instead of the mote in your brother’s eye, and about loving your neighbor as yourself.
Rick Norwood

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