I’m writing in response to Al Diamon’s April 18 anti-Christian article titled “Everybody has the right to be wrong.”

It reminded me somewhat of the old Quaker couple talking over the rights and wrongs of the world and the husband turning to his wife and commenting, “I think, everyone in the world except thee and me is cracked and sometimes I think thou art a little cracked!”

The larger part of Diamon’s commentary is devoted to belittling The Christian Civic League and its leader Michael Heath. For instance, Diamon insinuates that Heath was wrong to urge a boycott of “The Da Vinci Code,” “Harry Potter” books, a lingerie shop that employed live models, as well as civil rights programs in our schools.

However, at the same time one has to give him his due because he does grudgingly say that the league is “half right” in coming against a proposed gambling casino.

Now, as far as I’m concerned, Michael Heath is a fine Christian. His job is to point out ungodly and harmful things that go on in our society and try to do something about them. This he did with the “Da Vinci Code,” which contains rank heresy and blasphemy because it replaces the truth of the Bible with a lie.

As for the “Harry Potter” books, they deal exclusively with witchcraft and wizardry. Wizards get their ability to perform their magic through the devil’s evil powers. These books glorify wizardry and denigrate God. To instill such ideas into impressionable young minds is wrong and there very likely will come a day when some of them will impinge their impressions onto society in less than desirable ways.

As for the lingerie shop, who wants what looks like an advertisement for a house of ill repute displayed in one of their hometown store windows?

Then there is the so-called civil rights thing where gays are invited into our schools to talk about their perverted life-style. What a tool for recruitment that is! Wouldn’t suprise me any if, in the name of equal-rights, Heath demanded equal time!

Since when should the way one makes love come under civil-rights? To me that’s a laugh! But Diamon apparently doesn’t think so. At least according to his attempt at put-down humor regarding a quote of Michael Heath’s: “Nobody should have legal rights that are premised on being sexually promiscuous.”

He also appears to be frustrated that under a future homosexual referendum being advanced by Heath, gay couples could not adopt. But I wonder – what chance does such an adopted child have of not becoming gay?

In my opinion, next to none! Talk about recruitment opportunities! In closing, Diamon refers to Heath’s upcoming referendum as a “hateful blob.” Here we see the influence of the gay-agenda. For one of the favorite statement of gays is that anyone who stands in the way of their life-style, especially Christians, are “Hate filled Bigots”.

One wonders, why all this vilification of Christians? Could it be because nowhere in the Bible is to be found one single sentence of approval for homosexuality and many against it?

Phil Kennard

Windham