It would be irresponsible of me not to attempt to gently answer the reaction to my letter to the editor of May 5, 2016. I assure you that I have no “hate” in my heart for anybody. Anybody why knows me would probably testify that I love everybody.
Obviously I don’t like everything everybody does, any more than you do. My understanding of “love” could maybe be explained by telling you, that if I had a friend who was about to walk off as cliff and didn’t know it, but was determined to go that way, I would risk my friendship to try and warn them.
You see, I’m not ignorant to this “cliff.” I am older than all of the respondents and have studied and dealt with this particular “cliff” through a lot of years and from different positions and I’ll take the chance of losing some friends, who don’t know any better, to give them a chance to avoid the lifetime of pain that inevitably comes to this lifestyle.
It was suggested that I didn’t say enough to prove my position. That is probably true. There would not be enough room in the whole newspaper to share the complete subject of homosexuality. I just want to assure you that there is a “cliff” and as that you not deal with the warning with sentimental indulgence and blindness.
If you want to talk to me personally, I would make as time available as possible if I could help you. If you still disagree with my position, I would still love you and not lose my concern for you.
Lyle Carbert
