Letter: Message for Pride Month seems one-sided

Editor:

I can’t help but point out the irony of an opinion piece titled “Humility and humanity for Pride Month” (Reading Eagle, June 8). While it calls for “each and every one of us … to take the posture of leading with humility and humanity,” it seems to me to be rather one-sided.

Those who are not part of the LGBTQ+ community are expected to accept and embrace the lifestyle of those who are, while the latter can continue to take pride in who they are and what they do, even though the Bible tells us that pride is something that the Lord hates and is an abomination to him (Proverbs 6:16-19). The one thing that those in the LGBTQ+ community refuse to do is to humbly admit that the Bible is right when it calls same-sex behavior sinful and worthy of God’s judgment (Romans 1:26-32; I Corinthians 6:9-11; I Timothy 1:8-11).

I, for one, have humbled myself in that I have recognized that I am a sinner (Romans 3:23), that I deserve God’s judgment because of my sin (Romans 6:23), that I am no better than anyone else (Romans 3:9-18), and that I cannot save myself (Romans 3:27-28). I came humbly to Jesus and asked him to save me (Romans 10:13) and I plead with those in the LGBTQ+ community to do the same.

Greg Wasser

Colebrookdale Township