Pubdate: Tue, 06 Aug 2002
Source: Town Talk, The  (Alexandria, LA)
Copyright: 2002sThe Town Talk
Contact:  http://www.thetowntalk.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1027
Author: Nathan Martin

GOVERNMENT DOES BELONG

Regarding last Wednesday's column by Gannett's Deb Price, a self-avowed 
lesbian activist, which called on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 
sodomy laws of several states: Her point is that the government does not 
belong in our private lives.

The problem with that argument is that the government does indeed have an 
interest if the private activities result in a social liability, i.e., if 
the government has to pick up the tab. For example, smoking dope, even 
privately, is illegal in part because of the enormous cost to society 
caused by treating addicts in government-funded facilities and hiring extra 
law enforcement officers to fight accompanying crime.

Along the same lines homosexual activity costs public healthcare facilities 
untold millions of dollars treating damaged rectums, infections caused by 
disease-producing microorganisms and sexually transmitted diseases that 
have a higher-than-normal occurrence level in the homosexual community.

But the issue is not only the public cost. In fact, the issue is a moral 
one. Price's column is one more brick in the building of a new nation, one 
that ignores the traditional values and definition of marriage and rejects 
the idea of Biblical morality, which is the basis of our government.

The question is: Will we reject the mores of our founding fathers for 
relative moralism? Our founding fathers said that our rights and 
responsibilities come from our Creator. Or are we no longer one nation 
under God?

Nathan Martin

Pineville
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