July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
A recycling idea
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
While attending Berne Swiss Days I noticed they set out recycling receptacles adjacent to every trash can. What a great idea.
They were emptied at the same time as the trash. What a tremendous way to offset the cost of city/county events.
Imagine the hundreds of thousands of cans during the Tri-State Gas Engine and Tractor Show or during fair week.
It is worth the city or county taking a serious look of alternatives to sending everything to the ever-growing mountainously-tall landfill.
Sincerely,
Marie McKinley
Portland
Thanks
To the editor:
The Portland Fire Department would like to thank the public for attending the inaugural Fire Safety Day on Saturday, Oct. 3. The event was a big success and will return next year.
We hope the public learned from this and had a chance to meet responding emergency departments and personnel.
We would also like to thank the Portland Police Department, Jay County Sheriff's Department, Jay EMS, Rescue 19 and Life Air Medical helicopter from Ball Memorial Hospital for bringing apparatus for display and greeting the public.
We would like to thank Mike's Rent-All, CrownPointe Assisted Living and Superior Auto for donations to this event.
We hope to see everyone back next year.
Remember, October may be fire safety month, but fire safety should be practiced all year long.
Sincerely,
Matt Aker, chief,
Portland Fire
Department
Sinful
To the editor:
This is a letter concerning the concert Saturday night (Oct. 24) at Arts Place, supporting the Gay-Straight Alliance.
We feel the need for public awareness to the kind of concert you are going to be sending your children to. Ray Boltz (as quoted in Saturday's Leisure Times) is "a gospel singer who has come out as a gay man and is now writing and performing music about that portion of his life." Ray, along with gay comedian Peterson Toscano, will be informing everyone attending and trying to convince our children that being gay is O.K.
Being a Bible-believing Christian, we know that Jesus has judge this along with other things as being a sin.
The church we attend, New Covenant Fellowship Church, believes that the homosexual lifestyle is sin as taught in the scriptures. Read Romans 1:24-27 (NIV), "Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ... Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
Here are other scriptures you can refer to stating that homosexuality, along with other sins, is Biblically wrong: I Corinthians 6:9-11, Genesis 19:5-8 and Leviticus 18:22-23. I urge all Christians and anyone that has questions about this lifestyle to pick up a Bible and read these scriptures.
We in our church love all people. We have friends and family that are in the homosexual lifestyle.
We love them but do not support everything they do. We have always invited everyone to our church no matter what their lifestyle has been.
We are just saying being a Christian and homosexual is inconsistent with God's teaching. God will judge ALL sin: Romans 3:23, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
God creates people, but God does not make people homosexual anymore than God creates people to be liars, drunks, bank robbers or child molesters. People have a choice what to do with their lives. Everyone has temptations but we must choose whether to follow the temptation or the Lord.
We are not picking on homosexuality being the only sin; we're against all sin as deemed by our Lord and Savior. You should always love the sinner but hate the sin; welcome everyone with open arms of love; help lead them to the Lord to trust in Him and live as the Lord would want all of us to do.
Lois and Sam Grubb
Portland
Disgusted
To the editor:
For many months I have been in disbelief and disgust at all the things that are taking place in our country and our community.
Heard on the news the other day that in some schools that are going to be teaching kids how to put condoms on cucumbers.
In our own community they want to start up a gay club at our school. The problem I have with this is that we cannot have prayer in school but yet there is an attempt to get a gay agenda started at our schools.
On Saturday (Oct. 24) there is going to be a concert at Arts Place to push support for this club. Ray Boltz, a Christian singer turned gay, will be at this concert.
Why I have not heard more about this stuff is beyond me. People should be outraged.
It starts out with a gay club and then turns into more things.
As a parent I don't want my daughter going to a school where if she stands her ground on her beliefs a teacher will degrade her. Not that it is happening, but when it does as parents we need to take action: Calls to the schools, letters to the editor, whatever it takes.
Schools should not get involved in teaching our kids how to have sex or telling our kids that it's O.K. to have feelings for the same sex and to explore those feelings. These things have no place in our schools. It amazes me that even people who are not Christians believe as I do.
I encourage you to stand up and be heard before our freedoms are taken away. Our country is going to the road to being a Socialist country and in schools across our country these things are taking place.
We as a community need to address the problem before it spirals out of control.
We care about our kids and want to raise them the right way with values and morals. If we are a God-fearing nation, then we believe God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
In conclusion, get angry, show some type of emotion to show you're still alive, and fight this injustice.
Joseph Resler
Portland
Not endorsed
To the editor:
In view of this past Saturday's front page cover of The Commercial Review's Leisure Times, we the undersigned do not endorse the performance, sponsored by PRISM/GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) at Arts Place this coming Saturday (Oct. 24).
It was openly mentioned that Ray Boltz and Peterson Toscano are gay men that have come out of the closet.
This lifestyle is contrary to God's word, and we cannot endorse the performance.
Signed,
Pastor Terry Bye (New Covenant Fellowship Church), Pastor Kevin Culy (Vineyard Christian Fellowship), Dave Peters (associate pastor, Vineyard Christian Fellowship), David L. Wade (Family Worship Center), Jim Nichols, Tom Lightle (Jay County Men of Promise), Hugh Kelly (Pastor, Fellowship Baptist Church) and Mike Hodson (Pastor, Old Path Baptist Church)
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While attending Berne Swiss Days I noticed they set out recycling receptacles adjacent to every trash can. What a great idea.
They were emptied at the same time as the trash. What a tremendous way to offset the cost of city/county events.
Imagine the hundreds of thousands of cans during the Tri-State Gas Engine and Tractor Show or during fair week.
It is worth the city or county taking a serious look of alternatives to sending everything to the ever-growing mountainously-tall landfill.
Sincerely,
Marie McKinley
Portland
Thanks
To the editor:
The Portland Fire Department would like to thank the public for attending the inaugural Fire Safety Day on Saturday, Oct. 3. The event was a big success and will return next year.
We hope the public learned from this and had a chance to meet responding emergency departments and personnel.
We would also like to thank the Portland Police Department, Jay County Sheriff's Department, Jay EMS, Rescue 19 and Life Air Medical helicopter from Ball Memorial Hospital for bringing apparatus for display and greeting the public.
We would like to thank Mike's Rent-All, CrownPointe Assisted Living and Superior Auto for donations to this event.
We hope to see everyone back next year.
Remember, October may be fire safety month, but fire safety should be practiced all year long.
Sincerely,
Matt Aker, chief,
Portland Fire
Department
Sinful
To the editor:
This is a letter concerning the concert Saturday night (Oct. 24) at Arts Place, supporting the Gay-Straight Alliance.
We feel the need for public awareness to the kind of concert you are going to be sending your children to. Ray Boltz (as quoted in Saturday's Leisure Times) is "a gospel singer who has come out as a gay man and is now writing and performing music about that portion of his life." Ray, along with gay comedian Peterson Toscano, will be informing everyone attending and trying to convince our children that being gay is O.K.
Being a Bible-believing Christian, we know that Jesus has judge this along with other things as being a sin.
The church we attend, New Covenant Fellowship Church, believes that the homosexual lifestyle is sin as taught in the scriptures. Read Romans 1:24-27 (NIV), "Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ... Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
Here are other scriptures you can refer to stating that homosexuality, along with other sins, is Biblically wrong: I Corinthians 6:9-11, Genesis 19:5-8 and Leviticus 18:22-23. I urge all Christians and anyone that has questions about this lifestyle to pick up a Bible and read these scriptures.
We in our church love all people. We have friends and family that are in the homosexual lifestyle.
We love them but do not support everything they do. We have always invited everyone to our church no matter what their lifestyle has been.
We are just saying being a Christian and homosexual is inconsistent with God's teaching. God will judge ALL sin: Romans 3:23, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
God creates people, but God does not make people homosexual anymore than God creates people to be liars, drunks, bank robbers or child molesters. People have a choice what to do with their lives. Everyone has temptations but we must choose whether to follow the temptation or the Lord.
We are not picking on homosexuality being the only sin; we're against all sin as deemed by our Lord and Savior. You should always love the sinner but hate the sin; welcome everyone with open arms of love; help lead them to the Lord to trust in Him and live as the Lord would want all of us to do.
Lois and Sam Grubb
Portland
Disgusted
To the editor:
For many months I have been in disbelief and disgust at all the things that are taking place in our country and our community.
Heard on the news the other day that in some schools that are going to be teaching kids how to put condoms on cucumbers.
In our own community they want to start up a gay club at our school. The problem I have with this is that we cannot have prayer in school but yet there is an attempt to get a gay agenda started at our schools.
On Saturday (Oct. 24) there is going to be a concert at Arts Place to push support for this club. Ray Boltz, a Christian singer turned gay, will be at this concert.
Why I have not heard more about this stuff is beyond me. People should be outraged.
It starts out with a gay club and then turns into more things.
As a parent I don't want my daughter going to a school where if she stands her ground on her beliefs a teacher will degrade her. Not that it is happening, but when it does as parents we need to take action: Calls to the schools, letters to the editor, whatever it takes.
Schools should not get involved in teaching our kids how to have sex or telling our kids that it's O.K. to have feelings for the same sex and to explore those feelings. These things have no place in our schools. It amazes me that even people who are not Christians believe as I do.
I encourage you to stand up and be heard before our freedoms are taken away. Our country is going to the road to being a Socialist country and in schools across our country these things are taking place.
We as a community need to address the problem before it spirals out of control.
We care about our kids and want to raise them the right way with values and morals. If we are a God-fearing nation, then we believe God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
In conclusion, get angry, show some type of emotion to show you're still alive, and fight this injustice.
Joseph Resler
Portland
Not endorsed
To the editor:
In view of this past Saturday's front page cover of The Commercial Review's Leisure Times, we the undersigned do not endorse the performance, sponsored by PRISM/GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) at Arts Place this coming Saturday (Oct. 24).
It was openly mentioned that Ray Boltz and Peterson Toscano are gay men that have come out of the closet.
This lifestyle is contrary to God's word, and we cannot endorse the performance.
Signed,
Pastor Terry Bye (New Covenant Fellowship Church), Pastor Kevin Culy (Vineyard Christian Fellowship), Dave Peters (associate pastor, Vineyard Christian Fellowship), David L. Wade (Family Worship Center), Jim Nichols, Tom Lightle (Jay County Men of Promise), Hugh Kelly (Pastor, Fellowship Baptist Church) and Mike Hodson (Pastor, Old Path Baptist Church)
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