The Bible says so...

I got an e-mail from Nick today. He was upset at what someone had written to the Daily Evergreen. The writer had a one verse quotation from the Bible and then inferred that homosexuality is wrong. Nick was livid. I looked at what she said. I decided that I would respond to it.

Editor,

A religious war is not something I normally enter. I am not a Bible scholar, nor do I pretend to know a lot about the Bible. However, pulling one verse from the Bible as Bethany Prince did to prove a point is not a good way to win an argument.

First examine her choice. Leviticus 21:13 "And if man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." The first question is the choice of words, "Man lie with mankind", how come the scripture chooses to say man then use mankind. Seems to me that two different concepts are being used.

Ignoring the point I made, and I will concede that what is written in the Bible is what it means. If that is the case, I would like to point out a few things within Leviticus 21.

Leviticus 21:5 "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh." It appears to be wrong to shave your beard, to shave your head, and to get body-piercing.

Leviticus 21:13-14 "And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife." I hope no woman ever has sex before marriage. Sounds like you can not get married if you have had sex before marriage. If your husband dies, tough luck, your days of being married are over and you can't re-marry.

One other thing I would like to point out. Prince's choice verse from the Bible actually comes from Leviticus 20:13. As you can see from the previous paragraph Leviticus 21:13 has to do with a wife and her virginity. If you have a point to make, you can surely do so, but leave quotations from the Bible out of it. Anybody can pull one verse from the Bible and use that to "prove a point."

Scotty Anderson

Other than that, it was a pretty normal day. I went to the doctor. I found out I have to be on my crutches for two more weeks. That was bad news to me. He took out the stitches as well. I told him about the Palouse Thunder football team. He said that he would be interested in being a team doctor. I told that to Jerry and he said that we are interested in having him work with us.

When I got back I went to the sheriff's and fixed some problems. Actually the problems are PEBKAC and not real problems. It is that the information I posted about dealing with the "problems" were taken down. Because of that people were not able to add printers, nor were they able to set up their e-mail. I re-posted those papers, and then e-mailed everyone and let them know where the directions are located.

I went to the fire station. Scott was covering for Ken. We chatted for a while about the normal topic. He always is comparing paramedics and EMT-I's.

I headed home and just hung out.