Important things

I read a letter to the editor in the Salt Lake Tribune (posted below 12/22/2008). It really paints a picture of what should be important and we shouldn't really worry about insignificant things.  I have some hateful feelings towards the LDS Church. 

LDS Church priorities

I love Christmas--that time when we suddenly pay attention to the 

poor and needy. Especially now, the newspapers are plagued with 

stories of growing desperation, increasing unemployment and 

spreading despair. I like to imagine all the people i could 

help if i had, say, $22 million. Think of all the children who could eat, 

the operations the could proceed or the families that could stay afloat.

The Mormon faithful recently raised $22 million, but they didn't spend

it on the needy. NO, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 

decided that gays, not hunger, were the greater social threat.

Imagine the cunning Pharisees asking: "Master, which is better? 

To spend $22 Million on the poor or on a mildly deceptive campaign

to stop the legalization of gay relationships?" Surely the man who said

that the key to heaven was feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, 

clothing the naked and being a place of refuge would choose the mildly 

deceptive campaign. At least, that's what the LDS Church decided Jesus would choose.

The economic turmoil, foreclosures and bankruptcies will destroy far more than

two men getting a piece of paper at San Francisco's City Hall.

Nathan Kunz

Phoenix