Scott Miller’s July 15th letter is a perfect example of someone who A) does not like what they read in the Bible and thus comes up with “alternate” explanations for passages; and B) is completely ignorant of several other passages.

First, let’s deal with the Old Testament passages about “laying” with men and women — which, ironically, Mr. Miller didn’t even know well enough to give the references for.

Leviticus 18:22, NIV translation, reads, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.”

Mr. Miller would have us believe it is only “detestable” for a man to take on a woman’s role.

However, it’s clear the verse says a man should not have sex with a man, as opposed to having sex with a woman.

The command refers to a man taking the “sexually active” role, not “sexually passive,” as Mr. Miller would have us think.

Also, Mr. Miller’s letter completely ignores many other passages that refer to homosexuality.

Romans 1:27 reads, “In the same way men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”

1st Corinthians 6:9-10 says, “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolators nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

Let’s see. Those verses either directly say or imply that homosexuality is unnatural, indecent, a perversion and wicked, and the second verse lists homosexual offenders with several other offenders who will not “inherit the kingdom of God.”

Yet Mr. Miller said, “Aside from this passage (meaning Leviticus), the Bible only condemns the same sexual acts for gays as for straights …”

I think Mr. Miller needs to actually read and study his Bible very carefully before he comments on it again.

He calls my position a “widely agreed-upon lie,” but the only untruthful statements to be found are in his letter.

Jason D. Van Arkel

Sophomore

Journalism and mass communication