The Honorable Sandi Bloem, Mayor of Coeur d’Alene
Members of the City Council
Coeur d'Alene City Hall
710 E. Mullan Avenue
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814
May 30, 2013
Dear Mayor Bloem and Members of the City Council,
It has come to my attention that the City Council will be given an
opportunity to vote on the anti-discrimination ordinance. This ordinance is
designed to protect the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgendered community at
the expense of other community members.
I love our community and do not see a need for this ordinance
especially as it sanctions behavior which is immoral, unnatural, and
destructive. As a local pastor it is my obligation to speak first and foremost
as a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ who simultaneously expresses his
love for those ensnared in sexual sin and his abhorrence of such sin. He warns
us that from within, out of the heart of
men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins… All these evil things come
from within and defile a man (Mk 7:21-23). Jesus’ term “sexual sins” encompasses the very
actions this legislation is written to protect. Such legislation would require
Christian businessmen and property owners to endorse behavior that is evil.
I would remind you that as those entrusted with the responsibility
to rule, you have been given this responsibility under God. His law is superior
to any civic law and forms the basis for civic laws. Central to his law is the
protection of human sexuality from abuse and degradation. Even as you would
oppose someone endeavoring to paint a mustache on the Mona Lisa, so you are
called at this time to oppose those who want to pervert God’s gift of
sexuality.
I would urge you, in the Name of God, to vote NO on this
legislation. Voting NO would uphold the sanctity of God’s law, be in keeping
with Idaho State Law, and preserve the rights of all people living here in our beautiful city.
Sincerely,
Stuart W.
Bryan
Pastor
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