Woody Cavenaugh

This was the last straw. I have been good, I have more or less kept my mouth shut. I didn't want to be the first group placed in a concentration camp by the Radical Conservatives but I must speak my mind. And if the radical conservatives come for me I won't go down without a fight. My struggle will be biblical in proportion.

I am every week amazed and appalled as the Radical Conservatives attack one thing after another in an attempt to make their beliefs law in a government founded on deistic principals. Our founding father's were all raging deist, and they weren't idiots either.

You want to make a law so that legal marriage is only between men and women. You say you want to do this to preserve the sanctity of marriage. If you can't get it right how do you expect a law to help you? Sanctity of marriage with a 40+ percent divorce rate??? Who are you kidding? You've got a lot of nerve trying to say what is and what isn't "Sanctity of Marriage" when you have that kind of divorce rate. I think the real reason that the Radical Conservatives are trying to control who is allowed to get married has nothing to do with the sanctity of anything other than perhaps their pride. I believe that if the non-breeders were allowed into some sort of legal bond their divorce rate would be much lower.

There is a guy who works at UNCG and preaches at some small church who in the January 22 2005 Greensboro News and Record talks about "women = sin". Dude? According to King James the only woman in the bible who wasn't a "whore" was a virgin "divinely impregnated" if some girl in his church got pregnet and claimed not to have had sex he would not call her "divinely impregnated". Based on my reading of his article he would chain her to a wall naked and stone her to death. I am shocked by the number of people who hide behind the bible as a shield against sin. Jim Baker comes to mind as an example.

In the bible God is credited with 10 Commandments and the average thumper has broken at least one of those. These are the same people who stand before us all high and mighty claiming to be on the high ground trying to bring goodness back to a sinful world. Have you spent so much time sinning that you think you're an expert in the subject? You act like you do.

My club has christian, deistic, athiestic, theistic, budist, agnostic, hindi, and jewish fencers in it and we don't need to make rules to force them to get along. We get along because we have a common goal. If the world wants to take an example of this and I hope it does, we need to focus on a common goal to all of us and not extreme laws from one wacked out sect.