God is not mocked

Galatians 6:7 says, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked,” yet council meeting after meeting and in letters to the editor, Christa Gerry attempts to mock God with her constant judgmental edicts on who is moral and immoral.

In a letter to the editor, Ms. Gerry judged Vernon Mayor Vic Marotta for alleged inappropriate, or as she calls it “incongruous,” actions, implying he does not care about veterans and has lost his “moral compass.”’ She says she’s “disappointed with our mayor with regard to the Vernon VFW’s plight.”

I don’t know whether Ms. Gerry intentionally misrepresents facts all the time to deceive the public, or if she is truly ignorant of the laws. Or perhaps she intentionally shifts the arguments to make a political play against the mayor when surely she knows the mayor has no jurisdiction or authority whatsoever regarding the VFW’s sewer connection. He doesn’t even have a say in it. That authority solely lies within the jurisdiction of the autonomous municipal sewer authority.

Ms. Gerry demonizes certain people and refers to people as having “lost moral compass,” at the same time she plugs her candidate for mayor and her friends as having “caring hearts” and “doing the right things.” I ask Ms. Gerry if her mayoral candidate had moral compass and did the right thing when she came to court to support the woman who fraudulently used my identity to sign me up for 19 pornographic websites?

Ms. Gerry states, “Lies are being expressed on social media” about the candidate she supports. What of the lies and loss of moral compass when her candidate does this repeatedly to others on social media, with me seeming to be her candidate’s biggest target, constantly telling lies on social media, calling me names, and even insulting my physical appearance? Is that showing a caring heart and doing the right thing? It’s all there for Ms. Gerry to see firsthand, as I have often told her often, but it seems she wants to ignore it and turn a blind eye to it while she condemns and maligns unjustly. God is not mocked, Ms. Gerry.

Ms. Gerry says, “Politics is very cutthroat and there are people who will stop at nothing.” She has got that right, as she will apparently stop at nothing for political sake, week after week misrepresenting who has lost moral compass and who is doing what is right.

Since Ms. Gerry likes to constantly refer to the Bible and to Christian virtues, I’d like to remind her of something else that is in the Bible. Isaiah 5:20 tells us “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.”

Jessi Paladini
Highland Lakes