Discrimination
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Straight to the Cross
COLUMN: Understanding the Times
Discrimination
By Emmett Smith
Two articles in this past week's media are worthy
of our attention. In an interview with "The Age",
a Melbourne newspaper, Peter Singer stated his
belief that President Bush is morally challenged.
Mr. Singer, an Aussie, is professor of "Bioethics"
at Princeton University. He criticized President
Bush as being morally underdeveloped and seeing
things "..very simply, in black and white, as good
versus evil..".
Certainly President Bush disagrees with Mr.
Singer's more highly developed "morality". Singer
believes:
There should be no "speciesism". That is, all
animals are equivalent. Treating non-humans as
lesser species is discrimination.
Parents should be able to kill their children for
up to 28 days after birth.
Singer's "ethics" leave much to be desired from a
Biblical perspective don't they? I wonder if
Singer disagrees with John Kerry's positions on
these issues? Probably not, since one of Kerry's
much-touted "advantages" over President Bush is
his ability to discern the "nuances" of various
moral issues.
Another article in the Key West "Globe and Mail"
discussed a "straight" couple having been booted
out of a "gay" hotel in Key West. Now I do believe
the owner of a business should be able to serve,
or not serve, whomever he desires. I'm not up in
arms over this "discrimination". After all, it's
important for Christians to discriminate very
carefully. Don't you agree? Think about it.
But this should ring alarm bells in anyone's mind
if they think the homosexual "rights" advocates
are going to be satisfied with simply not being
"discriminated against". No, if they achieve
enough political power, they'll go much further
than most of us imagine, and this story serves to
illustrate that point.
May God grant us the wisdom to discriminate
between good and evil during this election year.
"Give your servant therefore an understanding mind
to govern your people, that I may discern between
good and evil, for who is able to govern this your
great people?" (1 Kings 3:9).
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