Religions must change with the times

I READ WITH great interest the July 22 religion commentary "Rifts causedby gay issues won't go away soon." I am sorry that our Christian and Jewishfriends are having such a hard time realizing that acceptance and love arerequired to heal the millennial wounds left by their insistence on theprescriptive value of every passage in their Bible. In fact there are manyrules and regulations that they have modified over the ages.

Did not Jesus declare, according to Mark (2:27), "The Sabbath was madefor man, and not man for the Sabbath?" Have not the Jews, who claim theHebrew Bible (Old Testament) for their own abandoned slavery, polygamy,concubinage?

In every age religions have adapted or died. The Unitarian UniversalistAssociation of Congregations of North America has long since ordainedactive homosexual ministers and performed ceremonies of holy union, in oureyes the equivalent of marriage. There are no barriers to full membershipin our welcoming congregations.

We applaud the action of Vermont in legalizing suchrelationships. It is long since the time for the religious underpinnings ofhomophobia, leading to the violence we have witnessed, to be removed.

MortonNadler, Blacksburg
Roanoke Times Letter to the Editor: Monday, August 07, 2000

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