A huge “Thank You” is in order for Wendover City Councilwoman Karen Shepherd for her blood drive.
We are only walking around today thanks to the grace of G0d and to some anonymous donors who gave us the gift of life two years ago when our own body ran out of the ‘red stuff’.
Thank you’s are also in order for the 37 Wendover residents who pulled up their sleeves to suffers needles of outrageous fortune and give of themselves.
Who knows who they will save?
A child, a mother even perhaps a cantankerous newspaperman?
Whoever it is the donors should know that we receivers thank you with every beat of our hearts.
There will come a time in the not too distant future when a Nevada Justice of the Peace will be faced with a dilemma on whether to perform a gay marriage and risk the wrath of G0d or to refuse and risk the wrath of the state.
We do not envy that individual.
The trials and tribulations already being suffered by people who based on their religion refused to participate in same sex weddings should cause us all to pause.
This newspaper endorsed gay marriage over 20 years ago one the grounds that if an 80 year old man could legally marry a 16 year old girl, the state should not have a problem with two adults of the same sex going through the same ceremony.
Of course if that old man showed up at a church with his young fiancé he would be shown the door by 99 out of 100 ministers, priests or rabbis most likely with a swift kick in the rear as well.
And therein lies the problem.
Marriage is for most of us, first and foremost, a religious rite. It has been so for about 6,000 years.
And while the gods may have changed the solemn vows we make are still the same.
To demand that someone perform a secular act diametrically opposed to his religion or conscience is wrong.
It may be legal but it is still wrong.