I sat right down and wrote Google a letter

As a seasoned programmer/analyst of 29 years' experience, I must compliment you on your technical accomplishments and achievements. In only a relatively few years you have managed to develop from literally nothing to the most widely used web search reference on the globe. "Googling" has become a household word. Through your leverage with advertisers eager for pay for views by interested eyes, you have managed to keep a vast array of services perfectly free, even your Web-based telephone service. To date I have been a happy and satisfied user of many Google services including email, voice, and maps. I knew that Google had gotten involved from time to time in issues that I would distinctly not agree with, but I am a person with a high degree of patience and tolerance understanding how easy it is to trip up and go wrong although having every good intention in the world. I was heartened several years ago to see Google pull out of the Chinese governmental firewall market, which kept Chinese citizens from seeing valid information that might have helped and encouraged their desire to be more politically free, taking seriously again its motto "Don't be evil."

I am, however, saddened to see how deeply Google threw itself into the so called "gay" movement, right on the coattails of what I firmly believe is a badly mistaken 5-4 verdict of the 9 politically selected, robed lawyers of the US Supreme Court that the DOMA of 15 years ago was not just wrong, but was motivated by mere malice. On June 28, as I brought Google up at my workplace, I saw the "#ProudToLove" tag linking to your excellent You Tube service, but a little looking told me that this wasn't about a man loving a wife or a father loving a son or a sister loving a brother or an aunt loving a nephew, or about anybody loving God or vice versa. Now I will take the risk of coming across as a "hateful" here for saying so, but I believe from the evidence of several standpoints that a real God actually did love the world enough to create it and put real people in it with a real plan for how they would express His own love. And that plan embraced many things including, now that people have sinned and thereby hurt God's love, how they can accept yet another heroically executed plan of love by which they can see recovery from their sad situation. (Any common bible will show it in a nutshell as John chapter 3 verses 16 and following.) However, that plan never entailed acts of gratuitous violence in the guise of love, such as is the common mode of "gay" loving. I would be amiss not to tell you that people who have gotten into such things have been had by another small-g god, a god of hate, one that only wants to tear down anything that God does with any aid he can get. (That god is where "evil" comes from.) Wanting to see that situation not get egged on by winning more and more and more social approval is not an act of malice; it is an act of compassion, towards both those who carry on that mode of "loving" and those who would socially approve of it.

So what do we do with the common objection that asserts that, given all the social opposition to homosexual practice, people aren't leaving this habit which seems to prove that it's impossible to change from? And so therefore it's really unfair to treat it as something like, say, smoking?

Please let me point out in answer that unaided self effort, and even psychology, has indeed proven of little assistance to people who have wished to shed the grip of such desires, as the situation is spiritually based and psychology usually does not deal with spiritual things. However, spiritual counseling in a Christian faith context has proven greatly helpful, as it puts God back in the driver's seat of people's lives giving them not only good advice but power. (To address another commonly asked question, no I do not believe in stoning people who practice such things, living as I do by a Christian world view more radical than even was held by most of America. In order to get such a prescription from the bible, one would also have to deal with why we would not be stoning sabbath breakers, which virtually nobody is calling for or has called for even in the most severely religiously legalistic times in America. However, I do believe in the compassion of the New Testament, by which the spiritual power of God can be called upon to pin down even the most ferocious monkey on anyone's back, and to walk that person free of the monkey if he or she is so willing. When this happens, it is generally within a full-faith context and not as some kind of walk-in counselor or ministry, where you walk in with the habit and walk out without it and go your own merry way. So therefore successes will generally not be chalked up to "therapy" and will be among people with little interest in submitting to "clinical study" -- what do they have to prove to the world? They've already proved it to God and that's what counted.)

I would anyhow like to challenge you to view this issue from another standpoint than those who are egging on the "homosexual love rights" movement, and take seriously into account your "don't be evil" credo. You simply have not understood the totality of what you have plunged into, and I respectfully state that it is not for blessing in the end.

I suppose when I listed the breakfast speech, I was referring to her talk on abortion that Google wouldn't go for (but I didn't make that clear at all) and so they wouldn't honor her, but her talk on suffering was good too.

While Christ will help one with their burden of physical suffering, He only takes it completely away (on earth) on rare occasions, so you're left suffering on your own and there needs to be a good reason or you become dismayed/cranky/bitter. Mother Teresa handled all this suffering she came upon with her love (and humor too) which ultimately came from Christ.

I re-read her breakfast speech and found the following interesting:If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for.
I wonder if maybe we should all be praying more?! :)

P.S. My husband received a response letter from Mother Teresa, and whenever I think her typing on a manual typewriter (with white-out!) at probably 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, it makes me smile. (It's been said she slept only four or so hours a night.) http://www.fightingirishthomas.com/2006/10/my-letter-from-mother-teresa.html

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