By Emmett Smith

A recent article by Dennis Peacocke www.worldnetdaily.com emphasized the importance of words. As Rush Limbaugh used to say, "words have meaning". The underlying meaning of a word is important, and in today's society several commonly used words have different meanings to different people. Some examples are "gay", "diverse", "choice", etc.

Hopefully you see the point. These words have been completely re-defined in the last several decades. And their use in masking the underlying agenda is important. As the escalation of the "gay rights" activism in recent weeks may illustrate, when these folks get too "in your face" with their agenda, many people recoil in disgust. So they've found it to their advantage over the years to couch their activism in euphemistic language.

"Pro-choice" sounds better than pro-abortion. "Gay" sounds better than homosexual. "Rights" sound more compelling than wants. The use or misuse of words is certainly nothing new. But we need to understand the importance of words. As Shakespeare said, "That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Whatever names we use, good remains good and evil remains evil. As Peacocke pointed out, "Words created the universe, and they are being used to divert and stalemate the Creator's purposes for it."

"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20).