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Article: COLUMN: God and morality are two separate issues
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- October 21, 1999
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Elton Wong
University Wire
10-21-1999
(Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- You know you're in trouble as a columnist when the letters to the editor make for better reading than anything you write. Be this as it may, the opinion page is intended to stimulate discussion, and discussion is never a bad thing.
The current debate around homosexuality and Biblical authority is a good example. However, some letters have a tendency to cloud the issue rather than clarify it. Appealing to the Bible, any religious text or idea is not a valid method for arguing a point when the text or idea itself is not justified.
At the personal level, there are many reasons people view a text as absolutely ...
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