Josh Lizer does a good job outlining the party platform of anti-gay Christians. While I respect that Josh isn’t a bigot, I will say he is misinformed.

First, he says believing homosexuality is wrong is a Christian belief,. He tries to use science to support the claim because there is really no Christian way to back up a statement of hate. Josh Lizer, I urge you to go find a philosophy professor, grab him/her by the lapels, get real close and say: “Can I turn an ‘is’ into an ‘ought?'” The professor will say no.

You can’t take a fact about nature and make a moral rule about it. There has to be a reason homosexuality is wrong besides the fact that men have penises and women have vaginas.

Put another way, I have teeth and a digestive system that can digest meat. You are made of meat. Therefore, I ought to eat you.

Next, Mr. Lizer turns to reproduction as an excuse. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his animal sciences professors haven’t told him about the long list of animals that engage in homosexual activity. Homosexuality is a part of nature. Some theories even suggest it may be a sort of population control. I don’t really know if that’s true, but it is true that humans have already overpopulated the world. Maybe we need more gays to balance it out?

To finish, Mr. Lizer tries to pin this whole thing on the action, rather than the people. This is the biggest Christian fallacy I never see countered. If God really hated the sin and not the sinner, why does he let the sin go on and send the sinner to hell?

God does not hate people. And I know you don’t either. But, when you say “I don’t hate the sinner, I hate the sin,” it is the same as saying “I don’t hate people, I hate it when people are black.”

I know from your letter that you don’t want to hate people, but your Christian morality is supposedly telling you to do so.

I suggest you step back and re-evaluate your system of morality. You may find your morality doesn’t tell you to hate gays or gayness, you may realize you need to find a different denomination of Christianity to follow, you may find you need to follow a different religion altogether, or you may come to need no religion at all. But when you do finally meet your maker, you will walk with your eyes open.

Keith Twombley Sophomore Computer science and philosophy