Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world long before Christ was born. Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. He never passed judgment in his teachings about multiple subjects. He never once said that gay people should be condemned, yet our church where we go to worship the word of Christ you condemn homosexuality.
We pass judgment on these people. Jesus never did.
So you call yourself a Christian! It does not matter whether you are a Democrat or Republican or liberal. If you are White, Black or Brown. Is this really what a Christian sounds like? Passing judgment, where Jesus Christ never did.
Go look yourself in the mirror. And show your church, show the people, show yourself, what a real Christian is.
Abel R. Moreno
Brownsville
Musk actions
not welcome
I am a winter Texan and have a great interest in the Valley. It seems money has played a great part in the thinking of officials in Texas. Rocket ships have blinded the affects of the area.
Mr. Elon Musk with billions has taken over one of the few areas that are free for recreation for Texas people. Boca Chica is now owned by Musk; you can fish there when he says you can. You can drive there when he says. You can picnic also when he says you can.
He was allowed to build on both sides of the highway with dangerous actions.
I saw an explosion from Padre Island. If they had missed the landing spot we all would have been incinerated.
People in the Valley must speak up.
Don Fennie
Colfax, Wis.
Infection
of the soul
Bacterial and viral infections have ravaged mankind for centuries. Modern science and medicine have developed procedures and medicines to help us survive such infections. But, there is an infection that has beset humans since at least Biblical times: hate/prejudice. This infection is one of the soul.
It hides among us like all vermin. It spreads and makes itself known with vile efficiency. Whether it unfetters the lash on those seen as inferior or as an “other,” or claims superiority of skin color, ethnicity or religion, hate is learned and worn like a uniform of privileged impunity. It is a true global pandemic of hate with an unfathomable number of victims, as a result of its various forms/mutations.
Lynchings, mass shootings and bigotry shielded by legislation or court decisions are used to keep people from becoming full members of society. Children are not allowed to learn the true history of the hate-driven white supremacy that has enabled certain groups to progress and left others trapped in the past.
Women, African American former slaves and their descendants, Latinos, Jews/Catholics/Muslims, etc., are to be deprived of their constitutional rights. Otherwise, without this infection of hate, our country will continue to become a more perfect union of multi-colored, multi-faith, multi-ethnic people with the right to vote.
The right to vote is the remedy for the spread of the American Taliban version of the vile infection of hate. Register to vote and then vote to put this evil back in the cesspool where it belongs.
The curtain has been pulled and evil, not the Great Oz, has been exposed for what it is: a vile threat to us all. Speak out and let the spreaders of the hate infection know that it is not acceptable.
Ricardo Flores
Edinburg
