Same-sex marriages harm Iowa

A recent Des Moines Register featured pictures and a story of two 90-year-old women who have loved each other for more than 70 years and married in Davenport. A letter to the editor reads: 'How can this couple possibly harm Iowa?”

Jesus told his disciples: 'Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.'” Matthew 19:4-5. It is God who established marriage. They hurt Iowa with their example. It is impossible for two men or two women to consummate a marriage.

Not long ago, men courted women for the purpose of marriage and family. Work was considered a blessing, an expression of a man's worth to his family and community. No life was thought to be complete without showing reverence to God. If a man got a girl pregnant, they were married at the point of a shotgun, if necessary. We need to go back to those days.

Donna Holman

Keokuk