Religious freedom

Re: White Christianity is in big trouble. And it’s its own biggest threat — Dec. 26

This opinion piece makes it seem that evangelical Christians are bigots for supporting Roy Moore in Alabama and refusing to bake cakes for gays and lesbians.

Speaking as a Canadian Catholic, I agree with my white (talk about injecting race) evangelical brothers and sisters and refute the allegations of Charles Mathewes, professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.

The choices in a political campaign

can be difficult. The allegations against Roy Moore were decades old and denied by him. His Democratic opponent Doug Jones embraced abortion. So as a Christian you had to decide in this election between someone who supports abortion and someone who denies allegations of improper but extremely dated advances to very young women. I too would have voted for Roy Moore in these circumstances, with some trepidation.

Serious Christians cannot condone same sex marriage as legitimate sacramental marriage. Baking a cake for homosexuals is no problem but baking a wedding

cake for them is. This is because it condones an event that is not legitimate for a baker with Christian convictions, just as a Knights of Columbus Council should not have to rent its hall for a “gay marriage” ceremony or reception which could be held anywhere else.

After all, in Canada our Charter of Rights and Freedom provides for “freedom of conscience and religion” as the first of four freedoms. These words have to mean something. Maybe the good professor was expressing some anti-Christian bigotry of his own. Paul Vandervet Cambridge