My letter to the editor appeared in today's Coeur d'Alene Press
if you're interested. If you'd like to read it on their webpage you can go here. I've also pasted it below:
Letter to the Editor
June 7, 2013
A Plea for the Adulterer
Tuesday night the Coeur d’Alene City Council
passed by a vote of 5 to 1 legislation that prohibits discrimination against
individuals who are gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or transgendered in the matters of
employment, housing, and pubic accommodations. I am disappointed that this
legislation just doesn’t go far enough. I write a plea for the adulterer.
It seems hard that in this day and age of sexual freedom and
liberation that the adulterer is still castigated with some public stigma.
After all, we all know how challenging marriage is and particularly how
challenging it is for men to remain sexually committed to just one woman.
Currently there is no legislation that forbids employers from discriminating
against the adulterer or guarantees hotel rooms for late night liaisons.
Just imagine the personal trauma faced by the adulterer when
he enters the hotel with his hot new babe in tow. There at the welcome desk is
the owner of the hotel – a next-door neighbor of the adulterer who happens to
have a conscience. The neighbor gazes at the man and his babe and, recognizing
neither wife nor daughter, summarily refuses to give them a room for the night.
What’s more, he gives the adulterer a sound verbal lashing. So what’s the
adulterer to do? There aren’t any laws that protect him from such humiliation
and injury. This just isn’t fair.
After all, he and his hot mama are consenting adults; what
right does this hotel owner have to refuse to give them a room? Perhaps the Coeur
d’Alene City Council will come to the rescue on their white horses. In one fell
swoop they can rescue the world from discrimination by championing the cause of
the adulterer. After all, if there is nothing natural or honorable in the arena
of sexuality, then why not take up my plea?
Stuart W. Bryan
Pastor
Trinity Church
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