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• Poor economy, debt force Lodi Memorial Hospital to lay off 44 workers

• Two accused of damaging sprinkler at Lodi courthouse

• Lodi man accused of assaulting his girlfriend, injuring child

• County to determine long-range planning for rural communities

• Outgoing and incoming Delta College trustees clash at board meeting

• Regional Roundup

November 2nd, 2009

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

November 7th, 2009

• Lodi High graduate was at Fort Hood

• Lining up for flu shots in Lodi

• Tour packs buses as birdwatchers admire Sandhill cranes

• City of Lodi staff looking into possibility of limiting number of taco trucks

• Daytime thieves targeting Lodi homes

• Lodi High School rally featured on 'Good Day Sacramento'

• Out of control

• Homicide suspect Anthony Hubbard arraigned

• Regional Roundup

• New Lodi Memorial rule to combat spread of H1N1: Visitors must be older than 16

November 6th, 2009

• Short sales make up nearly half of Lodi market

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi man accused of smuggling drugs, weapons for inmates at state prison

• 'I-5 Strangler' sentenced to 6 terms of life

• Jury convicts Acampo man of torture, assault of his girlfriend

• Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit

• Woman in wheelchair struck by car

November 5th, 2009

• A lower Lodi Lake

• Streetside scarecrows

• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

• Speakers address Lodi Unified School District budget shortfalls, plea to keep programs

• Armed robbers still targeting Lodi shops

• Regional Roundup

• California voters have final say over $11 billion water bond

• Weekend bus service to continue until Lodi City Council makes decision

• Paul Tebbel shines spotlight on sandhill cranes

• Your complete guide to Sandhill Crane Festival

• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy

• Man wanted in Acampo homicide gives up to San Joaquin County Sheriff's detectives

November 4th, 2009

• Candle fire

• Rep. Jerry McNerney sets telephone town hall for Thursday

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi City Council weighs raising fares to restore some bus service

• Galt City Council argues over ordinance hiring residents

• San Joaquin County sues state over prison hospital planned for Stockton

• Big win for Allen Baroni in reclamation election

• California sends Democratic loyalist John Garamendi to Congress

• Bicycling father raising awareness of teen suicide

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

November 3rd, 2009

• 500 attend service for Kyle Coumas

• Correction

• Galt considers ordinance that would require city contractors to hire locally

• Regional Roundup

• Have you seen a missing guide dog puppy in Lodi?

• Galt man dies after weekend Highway 12 crash

• Jason Behrmann is top candidate for Galt city manager

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

• Clarification

November 2nd, 2009

• Downtown Lodi trick or treat

• Public Meetings

• Correction

• Kyle Coumas funeral today

• Regional Roundup

• Sandhill Cranes Festival comes to Lodi next weekend

• Lamborghini lovers gather for show, fine wine, luncheon in Woodbridge

• Lodi's 'Biggest Loser' Christy Richesin runs 5K Halloween race

• 27-year-old man shot to death Saturday night in front of Acampo home

• Group investigates reports of haunting

October 31st, 2009

• Area schools have no plans of closing due to H1N1 virus

• Tokay High evacuation

• Gated communities in Lodi

• Finishing touches on Hill House replica

• Regional Roundup

• In remembrance of Kyle Coumas

• Lodi-area Halloween events

• City of Lodi settles case of mistaken identity

• Lodi a reflection of Halloween's retail emergence

• Izzy Laviola and Seth Siddle-Mitchell crowned Tokay homecoming queen and king

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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

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