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In her viewpoint "More than the ten Commandments?" in Tuesday's Daily, Lydia Claudio struck a chord that hasn't been hit in a while. The viewpoint cited homosexuality as a choice and posed the question: "Why then is it okay to flaunt homosexuality as some sort of prize lifestyle when it is one that is clearly and explicitly contrary not only to nature, but the very nature of God?" Could someone please tell this young gay man when he chose to be gay? Could you please tell me when I voluntarily chose to be subject to scorn and discrimination? Perhaps it was my happily married Midwestern parents that took me regularly to church that made me gay?

It upsets me that people feel that I am not entitled to the more than 1,000 rights, responsibilities, benefits, and protections that come with civil marriage recognized at the federal level because I'm gay. It upsets me that people (including members of the government) don't understand the separation of church and state and thus, the difference between religious and civil marriage. What, I ask, makes you better than me when the founding documents of this country say otherwise? What gives you the right to judge? Remember: "For with the judgment you use, you will be judged... How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when the beam is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye" (Matthew 7:1, 4-5).

So here's the bottom line. Before you present an argument, look at all sides. You may soon realize that even your own side can contradict itself. After all, the Bible says "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord" (Lev. 19:18).



Mitch Lunn, A04

Biology & French