Members of the Assembly, Acting Mayor.
My name is Peter Giessel. I was first moved to Anchorage when I was 6 weeks old.
I hope you are all here to do good.
This begs the question, "What is good and what is evil?"
Just as "legal" and "illegal" have no meaning apart from the law, "good" and "evil" lose all meaning apart from moral law. Just as no law exists without a law giving authority (such this assembly), there can be no moral law without a moral law giver. This nation's founding father's recognized this when they wrote that they were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." Our founding fathers weren't appealing to British law, but to a higher law, a moral law. Laws of man, if they are just, are subservient to and in support of this moral law. Thus laws protecting property rights are in support of the moral law against theft. Laws against physically harming another are in support of the moral law which forbids murder and calls on us to love one another.
The same moral law giver who condemns murder and theft also condemns the practice of homosexuality.
In Romans Chapter 1, the Apostle Paul writes, "Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error."
Clearly the behavior described by Paul is contrary to the moral law given by God. Mandating acceptance of this behavior is therefore also clearly contrary to the moral law given by God. Laws that contradict the moral law can only be described as evil. Therefore, this proposed law can only be described as evil. As it is written in Job, "Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.”
On the day of Judgment, God will judge all of us for our actions. However, you will be judged by the voters before that day comes. In a mere 287 days, the voters will judge if you have done evil or good here tonight. If you pass these changes, there will almost certainly be a ballot initiative to undo what you have done. It will drive many to the polls that will not have forgotten how you voted.
I hope you will vote wisely and see you in 287 days.