Almon Jordan Jr. is annoyed at the “biblically ignorant scribblers” of a liberal bent who presume to educate Sun Journal readers about homosexuality in connection with Jesus’ teaching of love. Contrary to what they say, he points out that “Jesus’ love was always tough love” (Oct. 28).

And just how tough is this love in the minds of staunchly anti-liberal Christians like Jordan? So tough that the homosexual who refuses to submit to its discipline is assured of an eternity of unimaginable torment, according to orthodox Christian teaching. Jordan doesn’t mention this appalling doctrine, but I bring it up here mostly to refresh the memory of fellow nonbelievers.

In the Catholic view, the believing homosexual is faced with an inescapable choice: Either he renounces his sexual orientation, finds a woman, marries her and settles down to raise a family, or he determines to lead a life of total abstinence from sexual contact with men – including willful, mortally sinful contact in his own imagination.

Personally, I love women, and I really wouldn’t care to live in a world without them; but nothing and no one can make a heterosexual out of me. As for total, lifelong sexual abstinence, forget it; it’s undoable. Hell and its everlasting torments? Oh, I’m sure I’ll have tons and oodles and millions of miles of company.

William LaRochelle, Lewiston