All I do know is that this is not right.
Judi Glass
Burbank
Griem is full of unintentional humor
There is nothing as perversely fun as opening the Burbank Leader to the "Faith" section and seeing a response from the Rev. Bryan Griem on the subject of homosexuality. He never fails to amuse and confound.
There was one column in which he described gays as swindlers and pretty much the scourge of humanity, and then went on to say he has many homosexual friends. You had to ask yourself, "What kind of masochists are these people?"
Then there was the column in which Griem told us of his best friend, a married man, dying of AIDS. Strangely, Griem had no idea how he got the disease. He presumed it was from "sowing oats."
Again, you had to wonder, "Why didn't you ask him? Weren't you the least bit curious? He was your best friend."
Now we have his response to same-sex parenting ("In Theory: Same-sex couples," July 10) as parents in which I learned for the first time that not all of God's abominations are equal. Some are for Jews, and some are for everyone. Some are passé, and some are still in force. I learned that eating shellfish and committing sodomy are on opposite ends of the abomination chart.
I did take heart, however, that Griem in all his convolutions acknowledged the possibility that God created a gay gene. He doesn't commit to the notion, but it's a step.
Maybe all those gay friends of his exist after all.
Alan Burnett
Burbank
