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• What's in store for Delta board?

• 'A clean place for them to come and eat'

• Lodi animal commission responds to allegations

• Galt man arrested on suspicion of threatening, robbing grandmother

• Galt congressman seeks role of minority leader

• Regional Roundup

November 21st, 2009

• Logbook

• Holiday drive spreads cheer to U.S. troops

• Galt High students want board to approve open-campus policy

• Poisoning victims remain hospitalized

• Expert: Half a mushroom cap can be deadly

• Tokay grad files claim over Lodi's Grape Bowl

• Lodi Middle School holds annual Turkey Trot

• Regional Roundup

• No motive or suspect in shooting

• Sacramento cop arrested for alleged kidnapping

November 20th, 2009

• Acampo woman killed

• Salvation Army Kettle Kickoff

• Advocacy groups sue East Bay Municipal Utility District over Pardee expansion

• Regional Roundup

• Galt plans to help residents with energy-efficient projects

• Stable southeast of Lodi approved

• One year after a heart attack, Lodi's Judy Mims thanks rescuers

• National Guard troops return home in time for the holidays

• Real estate market gets on more solid ground

November 19th, 2009

• Operation: Christmas

• Logbook

• Suspect arrested after hiding in fridge

• Chase ends in crash

• Galt Joint Union High School Distric hires new superintendent

• Sales tax hike yields dividends: 5 new officers join Galt Police

• Lodi Unified School District board votes to cancel summer school for 2010

• Water surges in Mokelumne River yield more salmon

• Lodi City Council will consider redevelopment next June

• Lodi City Council plans to cap number of taco trucks at 22

• Corrections

November 18th, 2009

• Regional Roundup

• Paranormal group conducts second investigation of building

• Congress allocates money for local water projects

• Sarah Palin's book hits the shelves: Locals react

• Lodi man finds wife's ashes during police display of stolen property

• Galt City Council rejects study on rent stabilization

November 17th, 2009

• Paying tribute to a Lodian

• Lodi Budget and Finance Committee to look into ways to save money on employee benefits

• Regional Roundup

• Decision on summer school expected at tonight's Lodi Unified School District meeting

• Clements gets free water rescue boat

• Redevelopment to be discussed by Lodi City Council again

• Court reinstates death penalty for killer of Lodi grad

• Clarification

November 16th, 2009

• Correction

• Public Meetings

• City Council 'triple-dog dared' to ditch cars, use Lodi buses

• Sierra Adventure store to close after four years in Downtown Lodi

• Lodi's First Sip event showcases area wineries' latest vintages

• Three members of Lodi-area family fall ill after eating poisonous mushrooms they reportedly found at Lodi Lake

• Regional Roundup

November 14th, 2009

• Galt school district narrows superintendent search to one

• Regional Roundup

• Despite budget cuts, some Lodi Unified School District salaries continue to rise

• Watchful neighbor in Lodi helped bust suspected burglars

• New Galt city manager juggles job, family

• Despite an increase in homeless students, school districts look to bolster enrollment, raise revenue

• A first look at 2009 vintages at Lodi's First Sip wine-tasting event

The following stories have received the most reader comments during the last 7 days.

• The country's mess is our fault (168)
• Obama is not a moderate (130)
• Sarah Palin's book hits the shelves: Locals react (72)
• Lodi City Council plans to cap number of taco trucks at 22 (50)
• Public health care is a Christian option (33)
• The haves should help the have-nots (30)
• Tokay in, traveling to unbeaten No. 3 Grant for football playoffs (25)
• Government-run health care is a bad idea (18)
• Young woman fatally shot at Acampo home (17)
• Sierra Adventure store to close after four years in Downtown Lodi (16)

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Male-female marriage has survived 5,000 years

I read in the Nov. 12 letter to the editor where a couple was blasting Ken Owen for saying the homosexual agenda is wicked. I want to speak the truth about homosexual marriage.

Some Christians even think it is wrong to say anything against homosexual marriage and have written views of being against Proposition 8. I think it is because they have failed to study their Bible. Let's go to the Bible to see what it says about homosexual marriages.

In the first book of the Bible, God described marriage as being between a man and a woman. God created Adam a wife for the purpose of being a companion to Adam, and then He created the pleasure of sex between a man and a woman so they could bring forth children for the purpose of populating the earth, and that sex should be only between a man and a woman who are married. In any other setting, it is described as sin.

For the last 5,000 years, marriage has been between a man and a woman. Ever since America became a nation in 1776, marriage has been between a man and a woman, so why is it evil to continue the rule that has stood for 5,000 years?

When two men or two women of the same gender are able to produce children by having sex, we should then consider gay marriage. I do not think it is going to happen. Nature itself teaches that sex between two people of the same gender is wrong.

Now I think some are going to say I am a gay-basher. You are very wrong; I have homosexual friends and relatives. I love those friends and relatives, but I do not like their lifestyle. In fact, I love them enough to tell them what they are doing is a sin that God says he hates.

To homosexuals: God loves you more than I love you, and He wants to deliver you the same way He delivered me from my sins, which were as bad as yours.

Pastor Mac McCartney

Galt

Editor's note: Comments on this letter are closed.