Correspondence

It sounds like you've been reading John Elderage lately... he is definitely one of my favorite authors!

But, I would like to take a moment and reply to some of the other things you wrote about if you don't mind...

>> Maybe I don't know that many people...but up here in Washington, I don't know a single gay or lesbian person. And maybe that just because we are a military family.

Just because you don't know that they are homosexual, doesn't mean that they're not. We tend to assume that people are just like us, or believe the same things that we do unless we have reason to believe otherwise.


>> Oddly enough it seems we have a decadent minority bent on making horrible things OK...like porn...once a sacred act between two married people, we now sell sex and its ok...

Just wondering since when sex was a sacred act between a man and a woman. I know that God designed it to be that way, but has sinful man ever really accepted that?


>> I know prostitution is probably the oldest profession in the world but never has it been seen in such a positive light like today.

Really?? Look in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament. It is littered with sexual perversions that seem to be culturally acceptable (which obviously doesn't make them right.) Polygamy and concubines were common place as well as homosexuality and I think bestiality in some places. (I don't think that God would have felt the need to inform the Israelites that bestiality was wrong and make it punishable by death if it was not already in practice.) And what about Tamar? She deceived her father-in-law into having sex with her, and then was praised for it. (Genesis 38:26 "She hath been more righteous than I.") This along w/ numerous other references (think Sodom, Noah, Jacob and Rachel, the 2 daughters of Lot)that I don't have time to get into now.

As far as it being the oldest profession, even Penguins practice a form of prostitution.


>> No we don't like prostitutes in person, but there are so many who watch porn, its just prostitution with a different name.

Yeah, I absolutely HATE porn. But I would still rather that than having to share my husband w/ other wives and concubines.


>> But I can see that we're sliding downhill as a nation.

Hmm.. I didn't think so. I seem to have thought that we'd improved since the good old days when prostitution was a legal and reputable business, and men got shot for cheating at poker.


>> And what's with the letting women choose to sell their bodies?

Are you implying that I don't own my own body... that someone else does? Or that I don't have a right to sell what is mine??
What about labor? When I do physical labor for wages, am I not in essence selling my time and my body??

Not that I think prostitution is right, but I would disagree.


>> I've never seen anyone happy who gave themselves away to various people.... That's not freedom.

No. But freedom is letting them choose for them self what they will do. It is allowing a person to take responsibility for their own actions, as it is their live, and not ours. As much as it hurts them to do it, and as much as it hurts us to watch... we still do not have any authority over the responsibility that God has given them.

Freedom is a God given choice. If a person chooses to live in freedom, that is their choice. If they choose to live in bondage, it is theirs as well.

As CS Lewis said: "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

That's all for now. Take Care.