To the Editor:
There's a comment I'd like to make about WPI's and other organizations' commitment to "diversity". The diversity of a group is of little value in comparison to the character qualities and talents of individuals within that group. Of particular importance are the character qualities of the perfect Person, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. These include genuine love, truthfulness, humbleness, resourcefulness, meekness, gentleness, attentiveness, mercy, justice, cleanliness, and timeliness, to name just a few.
In fact, diversity is often used as a cover or euphemism for the acceptance of sin, e.g. homosexuality. The Lord God Yahweh of Israel is the one, true God Who made us, owns us, and loves us. It is He Who, through one man and one woman (Adam and Eve), made us physically, psychologically, and emotionally "diverse". But it is man's sin which estranged all of us from God and keeps us from enjoying His love which has never ceased despite our sins. God proved His infinite love for us in sending His beloved Son Jesus, fully human and fully divine, without sin, to die in our place on the cross for our sins. The wages for our sin is death - that is God's justice. Being holy and perfect, He required 100% perfection from His creations 100% of the time. None of us has lived up to that standard of the Most High God.
However, His mercy is shown in His providing the payment for those sins through His sinless Son's death on a cross. To those who receive that free gift of Jesus' payment for sin is given eternal life with God and fellowship with Him. So while we are all different, we are the same in God's eyes with respect to sin (all have fallen short of the glory of God; there is no one who does good enough, not even one). But for as many as received His free gift of salvation in Jesus, He gave them rights to be called sons of God - in Him there is no designation of Greek or Jew, barbarian or Scythian, circumcised or uncircumcised, slave or free!
- Don Farley II MS-CS '85, former employee 1985-1995