LETTERS: WEATHER AND MORALITY ARE RELATED

To the editor:

Hell and high water. Take your choice, or you can have both. Every day we learn in the news of weather-related headlines grasping for our attention. Last year it was floods in North Dakota and mudslides in California. The Grand Forks, N.D., newspaper reported all 50,000 of that city's resident were urged to leave. Some reported that 90 percent of the homes and businesses there were empty.

This year we have watched two weather phenomena centered off the West Coast. One was El Nino, and the other is La Nina. When El Nino occasionally occurs, currents create rainy weather patterns which often result in mudslides in California.

In Florida this year there were a record number of forest fires. The damage estimate covered nearly 300,000 acres and nearly $400 million in losses.

Texas hasn't been spared this year as heat and drought have scorched the state.

Hell or high water. How do you explain the misery? Perhaps an interesting quote from a former president, James Madison, would help: "Providence punishes national sins with national calamities." Is it providence or coincidence?

Disney World in Orlando has sponsored Gay and Lesbian Pride Day for the last several years. Many families down there on vacation have been shocked to see public displays of affection between homosexual couples. Gov. Lawton Chiles recent vetoes pro-life specialty auto license plates containing the message "Choose Life."

Many Dallas abortion clinics boast of the record number of abortions they can perform. While the killing centers are thriving and making millionaires out of the abortionists, the crops and cattle are withering.

Many today feel God is irrelevant and a relic of the past, but God will have the last word. "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap." Galatians 6:7. Is anyone out there listening?

GERALD W. BEAM

Dexter