IN Ft Wayne Journal Gazette - 7/15/05
let the only one who knows the heart be the judge
The following letter to the editor was submitted to the Ft Wayne Indiana Journal Gazette on July 7, 2005 and published July 17, 2005.
The article was not published as written and the meaning was changed substantially. It was inadequately titled "Churches reject non-heterosexuals", the subject of the article was that churches reject all kinds of diversities and reach out to few, if any, people who are let down and discouraged by churches; non-heterosexuals is only one important and substantial part of those diverse groups. The Journal Gazette also changed probably the most important sentence in the article: "let the one who knows their hearts make changes" was changed to "let the ones who know their hearts make changes" and left out ", including in ourselves". This sentence was referring to "the one", meaning God, who knows the heart. The Unidiversal website address was also submitted between my name and the city and was omitted from the publication. There is obviously no way to reach out to these diversities through a Journal Gazette editorial.
God knows my heart in submitting this article and it was not to stir up conflict, it was just to reach out, and encourage others to reach out, to the downtrodden and rejected without judgment and condemnation. Not to insinuate anything, but these types of "errors" tend to happen and get a lot of attention in conservative media and politics.
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Unidiversal Letter:
SENT TO JOURNAL GAZETTE 7/7/05
Where is the loving support for people let down, disappointed, and/or rejected by so many denominational churches? Even some traditional and historic liturgical churches have open arms for diversified peoples whereas evangelical and Charismatic churches are generally the most uncomfortable to searching souls. Faith means a great deal to people’s lives and there is no reason why the rejected and GLBT communities should not be effective in corporate expressions of faith, praise, and worship. After all, did Jesus require change to earn reconciliation to God or accept every person by grace as we are? And, is it up to believers to judge, condemn, and force change for church involvement or just invite everyone in and let the one who knows their hearts make changes, including in ourselves, as He sees fit?
Purpose of ministers, believers, and ministries: equipping of believers, service to others, and encouraging each other to unify us all in faith with understanding of Christ to develop us until we are complete in Christ (Eph 4:12-13). Anything else; discouragement, rejection, exclusion, and above all judgment, is not part of any person’s commission.
Robbie Ousley
www.unidiversal.com
Fort Wayne, IN
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Responses Received:
Read your letter to the editor in the paper last weekend and have been wanting to tell you that I thought it was very good and I agree with everything you said. You did a good job baby. Keep it up.
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Another interesting letter to the editor posted on 08/13/2005:
Apparently there have been other over-edited editorials in the Fort Wayne, IN Journal Gazette
Ignorance uncut from letters to editor
The Journal Gazette states that it welcomes letters from its readers, and that those letters are edited for “brevity, clarity and grammar.” Might I suggest that we would all be better served if The Journal Gazette went the extra mile and edited for ignorance as well?
Fat chance.
There appears to be a vicious and, I suspect, a highly self-serving cycle at work on the letters-to-the-editor page of The Journal Gazette. The Journal Gazette prints letter after letter from uninformed readers on “hot-button” topics that the paper itself has worked very hard to frame in terms of its own liberal bias. It is also painfully obvious that the only frame of reference these letter-writers have is what they have read in The Journal Gazette. Based on what I have read, it would not be surprising that should The Journal Gazette’s editors and publisher decide that blondes do in fact have more fun we should see letters to the editor the next day in full support of increasing peroxide processing capacity.
I know, I know. That was kind of silly. Kind of like Karl Rove outing “secret agent” Valerie Plame, who, by the way, was outed 10 years ago by Russian intelligence operatives. Oops! I guess this will be “edited,” eh?
The bottom line is that The Journal Gazette’s policies– and similar policies in place at ABC, NBC, MSNBC, MTV, CNN, CBS, PBS, NPR, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, the Associated Press and countless universities– perpetuate ignorance. With ribald regularity the facts are omitted or are obscured in a haze of emotional and political vitriol to suit a particular agenda. The communities these “news sources” are supposed to serve are instead being led to believe what those organizations want them to believe– and again and again the success of their propaganda is manifested on the letters-to-the-editor page.
Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule.
M.D. RIDENOUR
Fort Wayne
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