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Traditional marriage
To t h e
E d it o r :
hen the white man kidnapped black peo
ple from Africa, the first thing they did
was strip us of our culture and force theirs on us.
We had no choice. As Africans we could have as
many wives as we could handle. Now that we are
Americans we can only have one wife. It we have
more, they got a law against it. Tixlay in Africa, a
man can still have as many wives as he can han
dle. In the Middle List, you can have as many
wives as you can afford. Some of the Mormons in
Utah still are not going for our government crap.
The Holy Bible states that a man shall not
lay with another man. Same with women.
Nowhere does it state that God gave anyone the
authority to condemn anyone. In biblical days
people had slaves. 1 don’t know why the govern
ment just didn’t say they never freed anyone,
just enslaved everyone. We can’t have more
than one wife, it better not be the same sex, we
got to work to survive, we can’t do dope, and our
children better not pray in school. My question
to the government: How did they figure we
needed laws, when God put the law in our
heart? The answer: Satan wanted to play God.
So does our government.
To conclude, if you are gay the only thing
you have to regret is if you don’t praise God.
Whatever is wrong with this world, only God
has the power to fix. If you are being persecuted
for what you are, don’t think you got it bad; they
nailed Jesus to the cross.
M
in is t e r
T
yrone
W
il l ia m s
Portland
Coinciding
with her 60th
birthday,
Mary Ann
Humphrey-
Keever (left),
recently
retired health
and physical
education
faculty
member of
Portland
Community
College and
author of the
book My
Country, My
Right to
Serve, married
her partner of
18 years,
Debra
Humphrey-
Keever, Nov. 24 in Richmond, British Columbia, a
southern suburb of Vancouver.
The couple motor-homed to the event, which was
held on a sunny day at London Heritage Farm, a quaint
1896 original farm located appropriately on Dyke Road,
next to Fraser River. Their sons, Parke and Wynnston,
and Mary Ann’s brother, Jim, were part of the small
wedding party.
The minister who married the couple, Bari Castle, also
performed the first same-sex wedding that took place in
Vancouver. Although the union is not legal in the United
States, the couple hope to become a part of the growing
vanguard pushing for the same right to marry at home.
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Portlanders Jim Rice (left) and Shawn Biniseli were married Nov. 27 in
Vancouver, British Columbia. In front of the fireplace at marriage
commissioner Karen Ell’s home, the couple exchanged wedding bands, shared
wedding cake with their hosts and then sipped champagne as they were
chauffeured to the Five Sails Restaurant atop the Vancouver Pan Pacific
Hotel for a wedding night and Thanksgiving dinner.
The couple met in 1998 and purchased a Sellwood home together in July
2001. Biniseli is a national project manager for Dictaphone Healthcare
Solutions Group, and Rice is a business analyst for U .S. Bank.
“ The ceremony was yet another way of demonstrating our commitment to
each other, and perhaps one day our marriage will be legally recognized in the
U .S.,’’ the couple told Just Out. “ We wanted to take advantage of Canada's
current marriage law, as it is one more shred of legal proof that our loving
relationship is binding.”
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