Come out from among them . . .

Paul Stevens of Waxahachie is "deeply saddened." He can't believe that Christian-owned businesses don't want to do business with customers that they feel would compromise their principles. We're supposed to accept anything and everybody. He says he asks himself, "What would Jesus do?"

Then he uses the example of the woman at the well. As do most people of Paul's persuasion, he left out the most important part of that story -- Jesus let the woman know that He knew she was living in deep sin, and He told her how she could be saved.

Paul says, as Christians, we are very diverse and don't agree on things like gay marriage or religions different than our own. We don't have to agree -- if God said it's wrong, it's wrong -- and Jesus never shied away from calling a sin a sin.

Paul says we shouldn't "isolate ourselves from those with differing opinions and practices." So are we to accept everybody and everything? I don't think so. What does Paul do with " Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you"?

What does Paul do with "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators"?

What does Paul do with "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them"?

Paul says that Jesus constantly taught his disciples to love one another. Yes, He did. He also took a whip and drove the money changers out of the temple. Paul said that Jesus "ate with sinners, hung out with the undesirables . . ." Yes, He did. But in the process, He always pointed out their sins and the consequences. And I don't think that's what Paul is aiming at when he says a caterer or a photographer shouldn't be allowed to refuse to do a queer wedding.

"'What would Jesus do?'" The Dallas Morning News; August 10, 2014; p. 2P.