The Editor’s Desk

Leviticus 18:22 (AMP) 22You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Romans 1:24-28 (AMP) 24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin], 25Because they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed forever! Amen (so be it). 26For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one, 27And the men also turned from natural relations with women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust for one another--men committing shameful acts with men and suffering in their own [d]bodies and personalities the inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution. 28And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him or consider Him worth the knowing, God gave them over to a base and condemned mind to do things not proper or decent but loathsome,
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (AMP) 9Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality, 10Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

Hey newsWEAK !
You have gone TOO FAR, saying that I am worse than any Islamic fundamentalist!
You said to "resort to biblical authority is the worst kind of fundamentalism" and that means me!

Thanks for awakening us! (my church, family and friends, and those like us)
Now we will know for CERTAIN that we are truly AT WAR with YOU!
We will not only stop buying or reading any related products, not just take every opportunity, but will active and aggressively fight you, by removing your products when we find them in lobbies, telling doctors, dentists, etc., to cancel subscriptions, and blogging EVERYWHERE against you.

We are not all as ignorant and stupid as you presume.

I'm not asking you to retract or change. Just getting in your face to tell you we are not afraid, and will fight you! We may not win the war, but I will do all I can to see that you, on the front of the attack, will go down in this battle!

Dear CEO Ascheim:

I am very disappointed that Newsweek
would run such a distorted and untrue
interpretation of scripture as you did
with the homosexual marriage article
in this week's edition.

As a news sorce your responsibility is
to seek truth in reporting. I ask for
accuracy and fairness in your
reporting on homosexual marriage in
the future. It really makes me
question your ability to be fair and
accurate. If you'll distort the truth
on this subject, how many other
subjects would you distort? Half-
truths are not truth; therefore you
are not providing for yourself a
reputation of reliable, accurate
news. I'm sorry, but I cannot support
that so I will no longer be purchasing
your magazine.

Sincerely,

Lynn B

Dear CEO Ascheim:

I am very disappointed that Newsweek
would run such a distorted and untrue
interpretation of scripture as you did
with the homosexual marriage article
in this week's edition.

As a news sorce your responsibility is
to seek truth in reporting. I ask for
accuracy and fairness in your
reporting on homosexual marriage in
the future. It really makes me
question your ability to be fair and
accurate. If you'll distort the truth
on this subject, how many other
subjects would you distort? Half-
truths are not truth; therefore you
are not providing for yourself a
reputation of reliable, accurate
news. I'm sorry, but I cannot support
that so I will no longer be purchasing
your magazine.

Sincerely,

Lynette B

When will Newsweek start reporting news, rather than try to win us over to their left wing views. Regardless of what you think personally, the position espoused in the Bible is clear... homosexuality is an abomination.

To usurp the authority of GOD's word is to trod on ground that many have tried before. Their fate can be found in the anals of the history of mankind. We each have been given the freedom to choose what to believe. Either the Bible is true or it is not. There are great consequences to one's answer.

NewsWEAK!
So you believe that, to believe the Bible is true is worse than the types of fundamentalism that drives terrorists to such as the 911 attacks?
You are clueless to the Truth that is actually in the Bible!

It doesn't seem like that long again when Newsweek was a news magazine. Now, my issues are stuffed with editorials and very little actual news reporting. The most recent, glaring, and offensive example of this is the current issue with gay marriage as the cover topic. If we're going to get one perspective, shouldn't we also get the other? There are not only religious, but also social, political, and civil arguments against gay marriage that can be articulated just as well as the pro gay marriage positions. Since these arguments are oversimplified and misconstrued in its articles, I assume Newsweek is incapable of discerning the true nature of these arguments. It is possible to disagree on this issue and not be some sort of neanderthal fundamentalist, but it appears that Newsweek would rather push one point of view than be fair in their "reporting" (read "editorializing").
I hope Newsweek will return to reporting news, or perhaps they should change their name to EditorialsWeek. If not, my waning interest in their issues-pushing agenda will likely result in a canceled subscription.

I agree with cflare.

Mr. Mecham -- I would respectfully challenge you to read the book of Leviticus. Are their some portions that we might find irrelevant to today such as rules on haircuts? Yes. But consider some of the "obtuse wisdom" of Leviticus:

Don't murder.

Don't commit adultery.

Don't lie.

How can you maintain that these are irrelevant to our day and age? How can you say that these require interpretation from only scholars that are not in the mainstream?

Here's some more:

Don't have sex with anyone except your wife.

Don't have sex with a goat. (Yeah, it was an issue then too).

We need real reporting from Newsweek. Not this kind of arrogant elitist reinterpretation for your own social purposes.

So you say we should interpret the Bible, but at the same time, not apply it. That is because applying it is stupid. However, we should interpret it because it's 'undeniable truths' hold ground even as 'our society changes' over time.

Yeah.... if that isn't bass ackwards, I don't know what is then.

A serious attempt at deciding on pie but eating cake too.


I'm SICK AND TIRED of this debate. It's a stupid waste of time.
The seculars want to dismiss the Bible as an authority of any kind, but the homosexuals aren't satisfied with a legal civil union. They want to claim the title of married also.

Fine, have your marriage, but submit to the context of the Bible -OR- dismiss the Bible and be satisfied with a civil union.

I SAY WE BAN MARRIAGE OF ANY KIND AND ONLY OFFER CIVIL UNIONS. 'Marriage' could be a title, but the legal term would be 'civil union' with equal rights for homo/hetero alike.

BAN MARRIAGE as a legal term. THERE YOU HAPPY?????

The real threat to sacred marriage and stable family is infidelity. Why all the rant about gay marriage and silence about divorce and adultery. With or without marriage gays will always be a rather small minority with a minimal effect on the majority community. Christians should get the timber out of their own eyes which blinds them to the heterosexual sins against marriage before they try judging sacred gay relationships of enduring love and fidelity. the hypocricy of it all is astounding! Especially given that so many Christian leaders are gay. I never made a choice to be attracted to men. I simply became aware that I was so.

Newsweek nneds to change it's name to propagandaWeek.

What utter and intellectually vapid nonsense. Miller's advertorial was indeed part of an agenda, and the proof is that it ignored biblical and sociological scholarship that could fill a library and that opposes her position. Did she bother to interview or publish the arguments of a single scholar from the other side of her opinion, even though hundreds exist? Did her editor, Jon Meacham, require her to do so? No, they simply laid out an opinion adorned with one-sided quotes and shoddy reasoning.

This article is factually, intellectually, and Biblically incorrect. In trying to support this article, Editor Jon Meacham has made Newsweek the mouthpiece of radical homosexuals whose agenda is the destruction of traditional marriage. I refuse to financially support this effort by continuing to subscribe to this publication.