http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/ Give your take on the News & Record's Letters to the Editor. en Copyright 2008 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:50 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Chuck Mann Greensboro]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/us_foreign_policy_needs_to_be.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/us_foreign_policy_needs_to_be.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:50 -0500 Jon Cage Jamestown ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/strong_faith_is_based_on_stron.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/strong_faith_is_based_on_stron.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:42 -0500 Helio Salvador Greensboro ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/secretary_of_state_acts_like_s.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/secretary_of_state_acts_like_s.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:23 -0500 Joan Helsens Jamestown ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/why_waste_10_million_opposing.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/why_waste_10_million_opposing.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:19 -0500 L.F. Rappaport Greensboro]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/high_taxes_didnt_cause_our_eco.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/high_taxes_didnt_cause_our_eco.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:16 -0500 L.F. Rappaport Greensboro]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/high_taxes_didnt_cause_our_eco_1.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/high_taxes_didnt_cause_our_eco_1.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:16 -0500 Eileen Thiery Stokesdale]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/easley_must_repay_state_for_tw.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/easley_must_repay_state_for_tw.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:10 -0500 Bill Burnett Greensboro]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/two_on_city_council_should_tak.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/two_on_city_council_should_tak.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:08 -0500 Bill Burnett Greensboro]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/two_on_city_council_should_tak_1.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/two_on_city_council_should_tak_1.shtml Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:08 -0500 Michael Northuis Greensboro ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/consider_these_points_before_c.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/consider_these_points_before_c.shtml Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:00:59 -0500 Georgie Leventhal Greensboro ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/city_council_ignores_pleas_on.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/city_council_ignores_pleas_on.shtml Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:00:45 -0500 The following is a Counterpoint. By Tony Watts As California goes? While many North Carolinians applaud the legalization of gay marriage in California, they don’t seem to realize the impetus behind the decision and the impact it could have nationwide. It reflects not only a shift in law, but how law is determined in our postmodern age. Rather than reflecting the moral absolutes provided by the traditional Judeo-Christian worldview, the ruling reflected a philosophy in which the existence of God is denied and relative moral guidelines shrewdly mask the oppressive power(s) that be. That is exactly what we see in California as the powerful gay lobby forces not only its view of morality on the rest of us, but, more seriously, its view of God — namely, his nonexistence. So, knowingly or not, the California Supreme Court ruled in perfect step with atheist Michael Onfray’s book in which he noted his disdain for the same Judeo-Christian worldview upon which our entire legal system actually stands. Citing the disallowance of “religious symbols” in French courthouses, Onfray expressed his disdain for the fact that modern “law” still hinges on a biblical worldview. “The absence of a cross in the courtroom,” he says, “does not guarantee a judiciary that is independent with respect to the dominant religion,” and here he means Christianity. “For the very foundations of judicial logic proceed from chapter 3 of Genesis …” (from “Atheist Manifesto”). His point is that no matter how much we claim to have eliminated religion from the public sector, almost everything in society is still foundationally Christian. That is the real issue with the California Supreme Court’s decision. Defining marriage between a man and woman would have reflected the same Judeo-Christian mind-set against which Onfray and supporters of the modern gay movement so adamantly militate. So, apparently, in compliance with the new godless philosophy, California’s high court did its best to stay as far away from that biblical standard as possible. This gay marriage “license,” then, only distances our nation, its laws and marriage from a biblical influence. It’s a move that atheistic thinkers everywhere applaud. Let it never be said that North Carolinians possess a Californian-like disdain for the God of the Bible from which traditional morality and marriage emerged in the first place. Instead, I really hope that North Carolinians and their legislators see the vital link between God, morality and law. If not, as California went, we may soon follow. Tony Watts is a freelance writer in Thomasville. ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/gay_marriage_ruling_repudiates.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/gay_marriage_ruling_repudiates.shtml Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:00:40 -0500 John Roberts Reidsville ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/thanks_for_featuring_minoritie.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/thanks_for_featuring_minoritie.shtml Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:00:37 -0500 Nick Nicholson McLeansville]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/watch_out_for_these_seven_comm.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/watch_out_for_these_seven_comm.shtml Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:00:32 -0500 Kay Sigmon Greensboro ]]> http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/if_you_pay_your_employer_youre.shtml http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/07/if_you_pay_your_employer_youre.shtml Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:00:00 -0500