I don't think the economy or the Iraq war are the main issues of the upcoming presidential election. The issue is the same-sex "marriage" referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot in the state of California.

Against the will of 61 percent of the state's voters, California's Supreme Court legalized homosexual "marriage." Then New York Gov. David Patterson ordered legal recognition for same-sex "marriages" contracted out of state.

Backers of same-sex "marriage" deny the reality of marriage, rooted in nature, plus the self-evident biological, physiological and psychological differences between men and women find their complementarity in marriage. They also deny the specific primary purpose of marriage is the perpetuation of the human race and the raising of children.

This strictly natural concept of marriage is in the Bible: "From the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife." (Mark 10:6-7) Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Rejection of the Christian worldview is secularism's negative, destructive aspect. Its "positive" aspect is the utopia of a society without moral restraints in which marriage and the family are redefined. While I pity and pray for those who struggle against temptation to homosexual sin, I am conscience bound to resist the imposition on our country of "morals" opposed to those of Christ.

Moreover, since the legalization of homosexual "marriage"

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is a public sin that can draw punishment upon our country, I pray people do penance, for God does not despise "a contrite and humbled heart."
ROBERT RITCHIE
SPRING GROVE