Helping a Friend, Helping Myself

[HappyChristian]

I hope some of you, if not many, will send emails to this council....(Pastor Mallinak is a friend of ours)

Dear Friend,

Please excuse me for not putting your name at the top, as I am sending this e-mail to many different people. I am sending you this e-mail, or else it is being forwarded to you in hopes that you will do something very simple to help our city. Ogden is currently embroiled in a very intense fight over a “nondiscrimination ordinance” that would include homosexuals and transgendered people. Last Tuesday, the city council held a work session at which over 30 people stood up and urged the city council to pass this ordinance. I was the only person to speak against it.

In opposing this ordinance, I brought out the fact that this ordinance will silence those who believe that the homosexual lifestyle is immoral. The ordinance specifically forbids any sort of “harassment” in the workplace. Harassment is not defined of course, and we know that homosexuals will consider it harassment if a Christian says that their lifestyle is sin.

The ordinance that has been proposed by our city council also requires landlords to rent to openly homosexual people, without regard for the landowner’s religious convictions. Of course, the homosexuals want to force us to act as if this is not a moral choice at all, as if homosexuality is a “discovery” and not a choice. That is the basis for this ordinance, and that is the reason why it must be rejected.

In response, I wrote a guest commentary which our local paper, the Standard-Examiner, was kind enough to print. You can read it here. http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2011/02/07/ordinance-would-create-thought-police

Many cities have already passed a nondiscrimination ordinance, including Salt Lake City. As far as I know, no city has rejected a similar ordinance. That is why it is so important for us to stop this before it turns into a tidal wave that sweeps the country. The proponents of this ordinance have made it very clear that they want to get it passed in cities first, so that they can make the case for it on the state level. If we do not stop it, it will become state law.

That is the background, now this is what you can do. Throughout the process, homosexuals and their allies have inundated our city council with e-mails from all across the country, trying to pressure them to pass this ordinance. Even though the majority of these e-mails are coming from people who live outside of our state, yet these e-mails are still very influential.

We can do the same thing. If you would take a moment to write one short paragraph (it doesn’t need to be more than 2-3 sentences in length) to our city council, and e-mail to every member of the Ogden City Council, it is possible that we could let them know that we have a voice as well. Of course, if you live or work in Ogden, please say so.

The following links are for all 7 members of the Council.

mailto:bartblair@ogdencity.com

mailto:brandon@ogdenmunicipalward2.com

mailto:neilgarner@ogdencity.com

mailto:dougstephens@ogdencity.com

mailto:susievanhooser@ogdencity.com

mailto:caitlingochnour@ogdencity.com

mailto:amywicks@ogdencity.com

If you can, I would ask you to write the e-mail in your own words. But if you prefer, I am including a sample e-mail here, which you can simply cut and paste.

Dear Council Member:

The nondiscrimination ordinance that is being proposed for Ogden City will violate the rights of Christians and others who have moral objections to the homosexual lifestyle. We believe that homosexuality is sin, and our right to declare this conviction must be protected. Our United States Constitution protects our rights to speak our minds freely and to share our convictions when it comes to moral choices. It would be wrong to pass an ordinance that infringes on our rights of free expression, or that imposes a lifestyle on us that we find objectionable. Please vote against this ordinance, or else include wording that protects our rights to speak our minds.

As you write your letter, please be respectful in your tone. If the vote were held today, the ordinance would pass. Several key members of our city council believe that homosexuality should be an accepted lifestyle, and would be highly offended by the use of any sort of terms that they would consider “bigoted,” including the term “queer.”

If you have some like-minded friends who you think would be willing to help us (please don’t just forward this to everyone in your contact list), then we would be grateful if you would send them this e-mail and ask them to help us.

May the Lord bless this effort to the praise of the glory of His grace.

Blessings!
Dave Mallinak
Pastor

[Brother Rick]

I'll send them something from my home e-mail address.

[HappyChristian]

I'll send them something from my home e-mail address.

Thanks.

[Bro Jim]

Just finished emailing them.

[John81]

:sSig_praiseGod:

[HappyChristian]

Thanks!

[Crushmaster]

I'll most definitely email them later today.
God bless,
Joel ><>.
2 Chronicles 7:14.

[HappyChristian]

I'll most definitely email them later today.
God bless,
Joel ><>.
2 Chronicles 7:14.

Thanks!

[Invicta]

It is already the law over here. Only this Tuesday, I was asked by one lady who comes to our seniors lunch, if we could let her group of senior ladies use our building. I said, No, we wouldn't as if we let it to anyone we would have to let it to everyone as we could not discriminate.

There was a well established Christian holiday and conference center near here, called Herne Bay Court. When the law against non discrimination came in, they closed down as they would not be able to accept some people or groups.

We, as a church, have a similar problem. We do not at present have a pastor, and let our manse. We cannot legally disciminate, and when I told the agent we would not accept unmarried couples or single sex couples, she said she could not acceept it on that basis as they would be breaking the law. We did find a way around it though.

Edited February 17, 2011 by Invicta

[Crushmaster]

Just wrote them. I sent it to all of them at one time, which may or may not have been a good idea. Nonetheless, it is done. In my email "signature", I have links to, e.g., an evangelistic "Site" I started; perhaps, I hope, they shall visit it.

May the Lord's Will be done.
God bless,
Joel ><>.
2 Chronicles 7:14.