Men should not be in women’s sports

To the Editor:

Why do we have women’s sports? Because most rational people understand there are differences between men and women. The Bible states that when God created people He made them male and female. Yet all are made in His image and have equal worth and deserve to be treated with the utmost of respect.

In recent years the idea that there are two sexes has been brought into question by supposedly intelligent people. The latest Supreme Court Justice said she couldn’t define what a woman is because she isn’t a biologist. Yet most three year olds know the difference between a man and a woman. I believe either she lied because she didn’t want to reveal her hidden agenda or she is truly not as smart as a three year old! Her answer made no sense because if only trained biologists know what a woman is then we are all in trouble.

On the issue of men in women’s sports, polls suggest 80 to 90% of Americans believe that biological men should not be allowed to play in women’s sports. Even if the man thinks he is a woman he should not be allowed to take the place of women in competition with each other. This is unfair and dangerous.

Since some people agree on this subject, then why have the bills in the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania been blocked from being voted on? The leadership of the Democratic party in the House has blocked all the related bills in committee so there has not been a vote on something that Pennsylvanians agree should be done. The governor has not pushed the legislators to take such an obvious action. What can be done to see this great injustice is stopped? Maybe a few phone calls to legislators’ offices or the governor’s office could produce common sense action which is greatly needed.

Rev. Glen Bayly

God created time and seven day week

To the Editor:

Time began when God created the heavens and earth. Before creation there was only eternity. God is not governed by time for “one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2Pet.3:8).

When God created the earth it was in darkness so He created light and divided the light from darkness. He “called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning was the first day” (Gen.1:5). So we have the creation of days by God.

God worked another five days as He completed what He had planned to create. Then He rested from His work on the seventh day and sanctified the day and called it the sabbath (Gen.1:1-2:3; Exd.16:26-30). So we have a seven day week determined by God.

We find in the generations of Adam a system of years. And as God deals with Noah and Moses a system of months within those years (Gen.7:11, 8:5; Exd.12:2,6). All of this for the benefit of man.

Now we don’t have today as God originally made these. Our days start at midnight and last 24 hours and end at the next midnight. We still have a seven day week (Sunday through Saturday) and all the days are named. There have been many calendars developed with different numbers of months and days. The one we know, the Gregorian calendar, has 365.25 days and 12 months, starting in January and ending in December.

All these changes benefit man but there is no change for God. For He is the “same yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb.13:8)

Jim Batt

Mexico, Pa.