Responds to writers

This is in reference to the letter by Sandra Murray (”Hell House saves souls,” Nov. 2 Letters to the Editor). I believe King’s Chapel was doing the right thing.

Teenage sex has been going on for more than 100 years that I know of. My great-grandmother, born in 1843, had a baby in 1861, father unknown. She was paid 8,000 pounds (a good sum) to keep her mouth shut. Of course, the media was not what it is today back in those days. These things were not blasted out in one way or another.

I can remember in the 1930s when I was a teenager. We wore miniskirts with our navels bared and our hind ends barely covered; boys wore their pants down around their hips. Our parents, teachers, and preachers all warned us about the consequences of sex before marriage.

Keep up the good work, and God bless all of you.

Then there was the letter by Bill Siedler about Hell House (Nov. 9 Letters to the Editor). He quoted Christopher Hitchens, “If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in quite a different world.”

You’re darned right we would be. There would be abortions, dead babies, dead teenagers and grieving parents by the thousands in this country. The letter by Sharon Benson (“Abortion ruling undermines parents,” Nov. 9 Letters to the Editor) made sense.

Viola Petty

Houston