An interesting letter to the editor was written to the Stars and Stripes by a Staff Sergeant in Afghanistan:

“Run both sides of gay issue” was shocking for me as a Christian who reads and follows the Bible. 

As a chaplain, the writer should know that you don’t use Google for answers pertaining to homosexuality. That topic is covered in the Bible in black and white so that there is no confusion. The Google search engine is simply a worldly creation separated from the word of God. To suggest that it’s OK to search the world (Google) for your answers is setting a bad example.

The Bible is, and has always been, enough information to be successful in life. It has been around before Google and will remain after Google has disappeared.

Please print this so that all God’s followers know that we’re still out here.

Staff Sgt. Matthew Shoemaker
Afghanistan

As the letter notes, he was responding to a “letter to the editor” from a Chaplain, who had previously cited a homosexual magazine to raise doubts about the “healthiness” of the homosexual lifestyle.  Regrettably, the Staff Sergeant appears to have misunderstood the Chaplain’s point, or at least the means he used to make it.

Still, it is interesting to note the boldness with which the Staff Sergeant proclaims the profitability of the Bible. His call to let “all God’s followers know that we’re still out here” also reveals an apparent belief that while followers of God may be dismissed by many, they are still quite present and engaged.