Editor, Gazette-Journal:
Last year at about this time one contributor to the Gazette-Journal stated the city of Bethlehem where Jesus was born was even worse than the modern-day city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
This was a needless and very unfair comparison of the two cities. The only thing they have in common is the name “Bethlehem”: the Moravians so named it after Jesus’s birthplace when they settled the area in 1741. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has thoroughly recovered from the loss of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 2003, at one time one of the largest steelmaking and ship-building corporations in the world.
It has two universities: Lehigh and Moravian, as well as other fine schools. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a clean and well-run, industrial-based, vibrant, Christian city, a wonderful place to live, work and visit, especially this time of year.
Samuel Y. KernHudgins, Va.
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