Winston-Salem letter writer bashes gay parents
by Matt | March 16th, 2006 |
In a letter to the editor published in The Winston-Salem Journal on March 15, 2006, a Winston-Salem resident bashes gay parents and applauds “lawmakers who are trying to keep homosexuals from adopting children”.
Janet Yarrison claims that two men or two women are not suitable or appropriate role models and parents for children. She also claims that children ought to be put only with straight couples. Of course, it should come as no surprise whatsoever that she uses God and religion to back up her claims. Yup… she even says homosexuality is a choice and a sinful one at that.
Ms. Yarrison’s letter is in response to another, published on March 8th, which praised (in a humorous and satirical fashion, mind you) the Ohio bill to block Republican adoptions. That bill was put in by a Democratic state senator after the Republicans introduced one to ban gays from adopting. It must be said, however, that not all Ohio Republicans were in support of the gay ban.
Adopting Children
I applaud the lawmakers who are trying to keep homosexuals from adopting children ( “Ban Adoption,” March 8 ). Children have the right to have a mom and dad, the way God designed it.As for the other comments in this letter, I teach my children according to the word of God, and it has nothing to do with being Republican or Democrat. There is no gene for homosexuality; you are not born that way.
A little girl who has no family has the right to be adopted into a loving environment with a mother and father or even a single mother who can handle that role. But two women raising a little girl is not fair to her, because she is being taught that it’s OK and that’s the way she was made.
My children have a choice. They can choose to serve and follow God or they can choose not too, but it all boils down to choice. Homosexuals choose to be gay, and no child should have to be brought up in that atmosphere.
JANET L. YARRISON
Winston-Salem
Boy oh boy oh boy. I’m not hearing anything new…. anyone else? All I hear Ms. Yarrison saying is the same, old diatribe used by the Religious Right for at least a decade now.
But one request… could we please, please, please not let gay adoption become an election-year issue like marriage equality was in 2004?
22 Responses to “Winston-Salem letter writer bashes gay parents”
I fear that the Religious Right is going to use Gay Adoption as a wedge issue to devert attention from the destruction they have caused the last 6 years in control.
By Samantha on Mar 16, 2006
First since you are accusing me of bashing Gays I guess I should make it clear what I said. I said that it wasnt fair to the children. I didnt say mean and hateful things about gay people in that letter. I also did not use the term Gay. I used the term homosexuality. I would gladly change my view and knowledge of the Bible if you can show me proof that people are born homosexual. I have a couple of friends that are homosexual and they adopted and the child didnt have a chance to have a normal life. He thinks that he should have two dads and that having a mom and dad is weird. If you read the Bible you can clearly see how God designed it. A man and a woman he told them to go and multiply. He destroyed cities for homosexuality. Thats in the bible its not something I made up. But if you are going to bash me and accuse me of what you call Gay bashing you should look again because my letter to the editor was very calm compared to some I have seen. I dont care what you do. I just care about the welfare and healthy emotional health of children.
By Janet Yarrison on Apr 18, 2006
Gay people do not choose to be gay and no, Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed for their homosexuality. You should try looking at other biblical texts which reference their destruction, such as Ezekiel 16:49-50, which states: “(49) This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. (50) They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.”
You might not have “made up” what you think the “Bible says”, but you are leaning on interpretations and thoughts of other people. Not all Christians believe what you believe the Bible says. You are leaning on nothing more than interpretations of Scripture passages which were not always interpreted in the ways you interpret them.
Besides… We live in America. Our laws should not and are not based upon what some one “thinks” the Bible says. Just because you think the Bible says something or commands something, does not mean you can use that to justify a particular public policy.
By Matt on Apr 23, 2006
in response to what janet yarrison said about children not being able to have the chance to lead a normal life because of the fact that their parents are gay, is not true. i believe these children grow to appreciate people no matter what their sexuality because they lived through it. and who are you to say what a normal life is? there are plenty of screwed up children who are living in heterosexual homes. its the parents themselves not their sexuality that determines who a child becomes. and just because you have friends who are gay and adopted does not mean you know anything about them. they have every right to have a family. as much a right as you or i do. there are several parents out there who smoke pot, do drugs, are alcoholics, beat their children and you dont see as much an uprising about these as you do homosexuals adopting children. your sexual preference does not change whether or not you are a good parent. and for those of you arguing the fact that these children wont know what its like to have a mom or dad instead of two dads or two moms, what about all the single parents who raise these children without the help of the other parent? No one is questioning their parenting abilities. so why can a single straight person be able to adopt and not a gay couple? the children get the love and attention they need. sure, they may not get to view how a heterosexual relationship works, what the mans part and the womens part in a relationship is but they see that a homosexual relationship takes just as much work and everything else that a heterosexual relationship involves. as for the emotional health of the child, why would they be emotionally unhealthy for? they arent treated any different by homosexual parents than they would by heterosexual parents. there are many children in the world who have heterosexual parents and yet they are emotionaly damaged. how do you explain that?
By kirstin on Sep 12, 2006
Oh please… I know my bible. Homosexuality is wrong pure and simple and no one is born that way. Find the gene. When you find the gene that makes someone gay then I will believe it.
By Janet Y on Aug 4, 2008
Hey Janet Y… find the gene that makes you a raging homobigot and maybe we’ll give you a pass on your extreme ineptitude at life.
By anon on Aug 4, 2008
Janet is not a raging “homobigot”. Read God’s Word and I quote from Genesis 19:4-8:
“Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, ‘No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof’.”
If Janet were a “raging homobigot” then why would she be friends with a homosexual? She doesn’t hate the homosexual, just the act of homosexuality as the Bible passage I quoted clearly states that when these men wanted to have sex with men it was a wicked thing. Here is another verse from the Bible for you:
” ‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable…” Lev. 20:13
Instead of attacking Janet’s character by calling her names why not just keep to the issue at hand? Where in her original letter did she say she hated homosexuals?
God hates ALL sexual immorality as stated in I Cor. 6:9:
“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders”
God’s Word is true! Enough said!
By Becky Lee on Aug 31, 2008
If the “men of the city” were homosexual, and if Lot knew this, why would he offer them his daughters? Is it possible they were simply heterosexual but wished to use the oldest trick in the book (rape) to show what they saw as threats who was really in charge?
Wow, Becky Lee. I’m assuming you left off the other part of Lev. 20:13… the part about putting what you say is a verse about homosexuals to death. Did you leave it off because you say “God’s Word is true,” and then you’d have to kill me?
As for I Cor. 6-9, the actual words used in the original text refer to temple prostitution and pederasty.
If you are going to proclaim that God’s Word is true, which I believe it is, then you should know what God’s Word is.
By Matt on Sep 1, 2008
Oh, by the way… please never again compare my love for my partner to rape. K?
By Matt on Sep 1, 2008
First Becky knows her Bible well. She should she studied it for over 5 years in college and still does. Your the one who has no clue what the Bible says. It clearly says homosexuality is a sin and an abomination to the way God created it. Not one place that you have quoted in the Bible has been correct or in the context in which it was written. If you can read Greek and Hebrew let me know. Becky’s husband is a pastor and believe me he knows his Bible well also. God says to love the sinner but hate the sin. Yes in teh bible you would have been put to death. But Jesus died for everyone. Yes he even died for homosexuals. He abhors what you have done to his creation, but He still gives you a chance to do what is right. You were not born gay. You chose to be gay. I am done with this blog and this conversation. The bible also says you can argue with those who have their heart with the Devil and his ways, but it will do you no good because their hearts are hardened. I will pray for you though and all the others who read your lies and believe them.
By Janet Y on Sep 12, 2008
Oh and by the way. Lot offered them his daughters to try and spare the city and the people. But they were so wicked and so sick in what they wanted to do that God destroyed them. That goes way back. Go and research it and look at the original manuscripts. Before you try and refute what is truth from the Bible maybe you should be able to prove it otherwise. God destroyed Sodom and Gamorrah for their sins. Homosexuality was one of the worst there. I mean how gross and just morally inapt to even think about sleeping with an angel. And Becky didnt say sleeping with your partner was rape she said it was wrong according to the bible and she is correct.
By Janet Y on Sep 12, 2008
Matt, I have one question for you. Where did I compare your love for your partner as rape? Rape was your interpretation of that passage of scripture, not mine.
By Becky Lee on Sep 21, 2008
Becky… You used the passage of Sodom as a way to tell me homosexuality was wrong. That passage has nothing to do with loving relationships between two people who happen to be of the same gender. My interpretation of the Sodom passage is THE interpretation. There is no way a sane person can compare the actions of the men of that city with the committed, loving relationships of gay men or lesbian women. The men of that city wanted to force themselves on the angels. They wanted to rape them.
And I think Janet gets the passage more right: “I mean how gross and just morally inapt to even think about sleeping with an angel.” The Sodom story has NOTHING to do with homosexuality, and everything to do with rape (in this instance, of angels).
And, I’ll say again, if all the men were gay, and Lot knew this, he wouldn’t have offered his daughters. The men of that city wanted to control others through threat and rape.
Why use this story to apply to gay men and women? It has nothing to do with them.
By Matt on Sep 22, 2008
Matt,
It has everything to do with them. Yes they wanted to sleep with the Angels (rape) the Angels as you say and sleep with them, but either way you look at it. God was not pleased with how they had perverted his creation. God didnt create a man and a man to sleep with each other. He created Adam and Eve and told them to procreate the earth. I dont have anything aganist homosexuals. I just dont like the fact that they try and push that lifestyle as something they are born with instead of something that they chose to do. When I wrote that article it was with the intent to show that Children fair better with a mother and a Father. Not to bash Gays. I think every child should have the opportunity to live in a family the way God planned and designed it. It you truly study the bible you will see many passages where he calls men sleeping with men and women sleeping with women against nature and against the way He created it. As I said before I didnt bash homosexuals, and I didnt say they all needed to be wiped off the face of the earth. I think its been killed enough. You will believe one way and I another. The truth will come out when Jesus Christ comes back to earth to take His children home. Have a nice day.
By Janet Y on Sep 22, 2008
Janet… I’m sorry but I cannot let you keep living in your own delusional world. NO, the Sodom story has NOTHING to do with gay people and EVERYTHING to do with RAPE.
Stop using a rape story to call me a sinner.
By Matt on Sep 22, 2008
I am sorry to say I am not the delusional one. Yes it does. You don’t know anything about the Bible that is obvious. I am done though. I am not writing on this board anymore. The Bible also says you will have people with hardened hearts and that they will never see the truth. It also says the Devil uses those people to further his agenda. I for one have better things to do. I will pray for you though. Its also obvious that no one else cares about this thread anymore. It seems like you and I are the only ones who post here. Well have a nice life.
By Janet Y on Sep 25, 2008
Janet… Thanks for proving your own ignorance, not mine. I guess you’ve run out of any arguments and can’t back up your own lies. No, it is you who need the wishes for a nice life: carrying the burden of so much hate and bigotry must be difficult.
By Matt on Sep 25, 2008
WHATEVER. I have not run out of lagit reasons. I have plenty of them. The Bible is full of them. I choose not to argue anymore with someone who is so full of ingnorance and stupidity. I dont hate homosexuals. I hate what they do. The Bible says Hate the Sin love the Sinner. You can make whatever accusations you want. I know for a fact where I am going, and I know for a fact the way God made me. I also know for a fact that no one is born gay. This situation touches home for me. My Great Nephew is living in a house with a Lesbian Grandmother and her sick perverted girlfriend and he saw them having what you call making love and now he does the the things he has seen them do. So yes its sick. He is seeing things that no 2 year old should ever have to see. Its gross and I am glad that Social Services is stepping in and looking into taking him away from that environment. So you can make whatever comments you want to make. I know that I am bought with the Blood of Jesus Christ and that I am going to Heaven.
By Janet on Oct 14, 2008
So… you base all you knowledge of who gay people are based on two very bad role models and, quite conceivably, two very bad people who just happen to be gay? That’s quite, well, prejudiced, don’t you think?
And, I’m sorry, facts are facts: If you believe Sodom was about homosexuality, you are wrong. It is about rape, not committed, loving relationships. There is no way committed, same-sex relationships can be compared to forced sexual assault (or at least, attempted forced sexual assault) as what occurred in the Sodom story.
By Matt on Oct 14, 2008
Matt, all Janet and I are saying is that homosexuality is sin. We didn’t say it… God says it! Pre-marital sex is sin, lying is sin, stealing is sin… I could go on and on. Why is that because we say the homosexual life style is wrong people think we automatically hate gays/lesbians? I tell people who are heterosexuals that have pre-marital sex that they are sinning and they don’t assume I hate them. Why is that I wonder???
By Becky Lee on Oct 22, 2008
Matt,
the sad thing is not that your eyes are blinded by the sin itself but the fact that you state you know what Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for when you don’t. From two people who studied the Bible and its beginnings I know for a fact what it was destroyed for. Weather you agree with me or not is not of any great loss. The loss is the fact that you feel that its ok in God’s eyes, when the Bible clearly says its not. Its a sin, same as any other sin in the Bible, the only difference is that the SIN of Homosexuality takes away from the way God created his children to be. It demoralizes the way God created for a man and a woman to be. Also something that demoralizes that is people who have sex before they are married, yes thats a sin also. I am not a bigot, Sin is Sin. Its wrong, and God will make you and I answer for our sin, but one thing I will not have to answer for is the fact that I stand strong on God’s word, and don;t deviate from it. God said homosexuality is an abomination. Last time I checked an abomination wasnt something good. Sodom and Gamorrah were destroyed for their sin, one of their biggest sins was homosexuality.
By janet on Oct 24, 2008