As might be expected, editorialists and columnists for the Sun Journal, along with a motley crew of letter writers, have come out against the people’s veto effort. Their writings all have this in common – the condemnation, repeated ad nauseam, of Christians as hypocrites for seeking to overturn the pro-homosexual, anti-discrimination law.

These condemnations come mostly from non-Christian dilettantes and nominal Christians, whose knowledge of the Bible and the faith is minimal. They call us “mean-spirited” and declare that, by supporting the people’s veto, we do violence to Jesus’ teaching of love.

The accusations that such dubious commentators hurl at us don’t bother me in the least. It is annoying, however, to endure the presumptuous efforts of biblically ignorant scribblers to “educate” us about what Christianity really is.

In speaking of the love that Jesus commanded, they seem not to know that Jesus’ love was always tough love. While loving sinners, he never once affirmed their sins as righteous or even tolerable, nor did he command us to do so. After saving the adulterous woman from stoning, for example, he told her to “Go, and sin no more” (John 8:11), not to keep on doing what you’re doing.

What I truly don’t understand is why these self-appointed elitists, who actually care nothing for Christianity, don’t just come right out and admit that they don’t care what the Bible says because they don’t believe in it.

That, at least, would be honest.

Almon F. Jordan Jr., Auburn