Re: ahmanson, etc.

>>> "Burgy" <jwburgeson@juno.com> 2/7/2005 5:54:37 PM >>>wrote:

Ted - this is probably responsible journalism -- but still journalism. It
supports what you said, but hardly "confirms it." I had read it before my
last reply.

Probable fact: Ahmanson was a director of the Chalcedon Foundation for
TWENTY YEARS and a major contributor to it and its worse-than-YEC policies.

Possible fact: Ahmanson has resigned from the group, but has never
repudiated their particular policy which, were they to win political power,
would result in the execution of my daughter (among many).

I'm still researching. I could be wrong.

Ted replies:
I could be wrong, too, Burgy. And I hope my posts have made it clear that
I do not share, and never have shared, the belief that OT law should apply
in the USA. You have mentioned your daughter before on this list, so I
understand why this particular issue is important to you. Although I do not
believe that marriage should be defined to include same-sex couples, I also
do not believe that civil rights (including marriage to a person of the
opposite sex) should be denied to any law-abiding person. All citizens
should have the right to the same freedoms. It may also interest you to
note, that my collaborator for a dozen years on the Boyle project, Michael
Hunter, is well known publicly in the UK for being a homosexual. He knows I
believe that some of his activities are immoral, and (as an atheist as well
as a homosexual) he also believes that some of my opinions are appalling.
But we get along generally, well enough to work closely together for a long
time. He is, like me, created in God's image, whether or not he believes
it; and I am, like him, going to be judged for my attitudes and actions by a
loving, merciful, and just God, whether or not he believes it. One of us
(he or me) is wrong about all of this, of course, and I realize it could be
me.

In any case, I utterly repudiate the execution of homosexual persons--or of
almost any other persons, for that matter. Although I do believe that
capital punishment can be appropriate for a very limited range of criminal
acts, I would never include consensual sexual activities among them. Indeed
I doubt that most such activities should be criminalized at all--I do have
my doubts that there are such things as consenting sheep, however.

My best to you, Burgy,

ted
Received on Mon Feb 7 19:20:44 2005