I wrote an email to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University newsletter

[pnggrad79]

I received a newsletter from Falwell's Liberty University because long time ago I took a few classes online from there. Out of the whole newsletter, there was not one mention of the Equality Ride's visit there, but several articles about how much they hope to eradicate the gay lifestyle from America, and advertizing a book which supposedly highlights the fact that gay people cannot and should not be allowed to adopt children because we have "documented social and mental disabilities" that should prevent us from doing so. I wanted to say the only disability I suffer from is religious abuse at the hands of pharisaical Southern Baptists.

I know I shouldn't have but I wrote an email to the editor, and quoted the scripture that says they will know we are Christians by our love. I asked them point blank-Do you show love when you expel a gay student? Do you show love when you refuse admission to a gay student? Do you show love when you refuse a gay couple marriage rights and adoption privileges?

Of course, I know full well they will say that they show Christian love by shipping known homosexuals off to ex-gay camps and ministries because they believe they can change! I told them that I prayed and begged and pleaded for my homosexuality to be changed for years and was convinced that God had turned me over to a reprobate mind- I spent years believing God hated me. What a waste!

Now I know that I was trying to impose my will on God and that if God had wanted me to be straight then I would have been. God is so much bigger than the tiny boxes we put Him in. Why would I think I know more than God? Why does Falwell think he is God? Yikes! This man is a power hungry control freak!

My letter will not get published I know, but I got to vent anyway! :mad:

[RyGuy23]

Hey, I think writing to the editor of that newsletter is exactly what you should have done. Even though, like you said, it may not be considered very thoughtfully, at least you are speaking up. Situations like this always make me think of that saying 'silence gives consent.'

Good job on not just consenting to what you know is wrong :)

[Emproph]

Hey, I think writing to the editor of that newsletter is exactly what you should have done. Even though, like you said, it may not be considered very thoughtfully, at least you are speaking up. Situations like this always make me think of that saying 'silence gives consent.'
Good job on not just consenting to what you know is wrong :) Cue British accent: "Here here!" ^

Heck pnggrad, if you hadn't written that letter, you wouldn't have had anthing to post here, further getting it off your chest, and allowing me to vent this! :D

Screw them, send it in to your local paper, it’ll at least get read by other people who got that newsletter, or likely fans of it.

The letters to the editor section is the most popular part of the paper. They want meaty juicy letters like that to keep people subscribing, and it just takes one to get printed to get it in your head that “I know it can get printed,” and “my voice can be heard.”

I live in a conservative town, but the paper here does a good job of printing letters whatever the persuasion. They’ve printed most of mine. The last one I sent in my family even said they didn’t understand, point being they printed it anyway. I should get your guys’ feedback, see if you’d understand it. Anyway, I wrote a thread (http://www.soulforce.org/forums/showthread.php?t=215) on this a while back if you want to check it out.

I’ve written letters to Joyce Meyer ministries and received the most insulting patronizing responses back. Insulting in the sense that they say that they love me and then go on to insinuate, without directly saying so, just how stupid I am. -Talk about a wake up call. :eek:

I don’t know if Falwell, Meyer and ilk are just lying to themselves or are consciously lying lying, but I would encourage you to consider continuing to write letters when you feel motivated to do so. To whomever, and whatever it may concern. Even when it’s to people you know won’t take you seriously, at least you know you’ve been a witness to them. At least you now know that they no longer have the option of saying they weren’t warned or didn’t know.

When you get confident with your own ability to express yourself, and know it’s been understood by others, it’s definitely worth it, and it only takes that one to get published in order to know that. :rainbow:

[Liberal Crozier]

My dear brothers and sisters,

One of the many defences used at Nuremburg in 1946 ( the year I was born) was ignorance. The Nazi leaders joined the populace in feigning ignorance of the holocaust. Cities near concentration camps had cremain ashes on their cars, their streets. Soldiers and "civilians" had ashes on their clothing....on themselves.

And yet, years before, in the book ghost written for Hitler by Rudolf Hess, My Struggle (Mein Kampf),the blueprint for the Third Reich was exposed. Both the "true believers" and even some "Holocaust victims" voted for the National Socialists and brought them into shared and a year later, into complete dictatorship.

The writings of the " Principal Prophets of Perdition " , and after the obvious suspects on the world stage, some minor players, are available free of charge or for " a generous donation ".

Gone is the major nemesis - namely, Communism, for its new manifestation in China - now supports the very global neo-conservative fascists who have guaranteed them a theocracy in the process. Dominionism is there for the pre-millennialists, and Armageddon for the rest....

You may deny their theology or their methods, but never disrespect them and their ability to influence many zealots looking for scapegoats. For some of them, the scapegoating of normal adult monogamous couplings of LGBT clergy and laity - some with families - for the paedophile scandals allows them to coalition with some fundamentalist groups often engaged in anti-Catholic missionary activity. Politics make strange bedfellows....and yes, the visual imagery is truly pornographic in the classic sense.

Pray for them, and for yourselves....for the strength and courage to persevere. Pray for the Equality Riders....the engine of the Freedom train.

Well, Pray First and Pay Next or we will all pay the price no one should pay....

In dilectione Christi +Libbish

[tdogg]

...what we go through today at the hands of various so-called religious leaders (i.e., Jerry Fallwell, Pat Robertson, etc.), is eerily similar to what Jesus went through at the hands of the religious leaders of his day. The wanted to destroy Him for claiming to be God's son and passing on his message of love over law. The modern religious zealots want to destroy God's GLBT population with hatred and evil, although we are crying out our message in love (and often frustration).

I was pondering this thought the other day, working on a reply to my aunt's not so nice letter - interesting how the issues correlate well over a span of hundreds and hundreds of years.:agree:

[Zerbie]

Did you post the latest letter to the editor? Was it the one about Alito linked in your other thread? Cuz if you've got a new one, I'd like to look at it.

[pnggrad79]

I wrote an email to the editor of the Liberty University newsletter. I am not sure what you are talking about with the Alito thread. Probably just me venting. Sorry. Direct me or provide a quote, maybe I can go from there.

:rolleyes:

[Emproph]

pnggrad: She was talking about the link I put in my post above, I started a thread that included a couple of my letters to the editor. :)

Zerbie: I've got to find a link the letters my latest one was in response to. I'll let you know. :)