Discrimination.

Dear editor,

Re: Arctic diocese bans gays from employment (September Journal). If I asked bishops Larry Robertson and Andrew Atagotaaluk, both of the Arctic, who made them, would they not say "God?" If God made all of us, then we were made the way He wanted us to be for his own specific reasons--sexual orientation included. The Bible tells us that we should all be doing the work of the Lord; so, if you refuse these people the right to serve in God's house, are you not telling God that He is sinning by creating people whom you consider imperfect and unsuitable to serve not only God but you? Where in the Bible does it suggest that mortals have the right to criticize God for his seemingly imperfect handiwork?

Have we not enough discrimination in the world without bishops Robertson and Atagotaaluk and now the Pope creating more? Surely one of the tasks of the church is to stamp out discrimination, not make it.

M. Lane

Hamilton, Ont.