To the Editor:

In response to: "Disappointed with Cuomo’s Gay Rights Stand" (Letters, July 13-19)

Mr. Blank cherry-picks his Bible verses in an effort to make what he hopes appears to us as a religious argument, when it is, in reality, pure human emotional hatred and fear for a segment of his fellow man.

If there was ever a stronger justification as to why we have separation of Church and State in this country (which unlike the Bible, is actually enshrined in the human reality of our Constitution in real form by real people), just read Mr. Blank’s diatribe, and count your blessings as an American.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of our citizens still think they’re living in the 1950s, and how everything they say is correct, because certain hand selected verses from a book written 2000 years ago by someone nobody knows, supports their argument.

I’m a proud and married heterosexual, and certainly no religious scholar, but it seems to me from my limited study of Jesus, that he was, amongst many other great things, a man of love above all else.

I have a difficult time reconciling his meaning and message with that of Mr. Blank.

Leland Farnsworth

Massena